Just when you think you’ve seen them all well… guess again. Some guys who are responsible for a good share of your inbox (spam) have thought of a new way to trick the the algorithms. Since image spam or pdf spam is thought to be not so effective well why not ASCII spam the victim’s inbox.

ASCII spam ?! well yes if you remember the good old days when ascii art was cool and all… those days are back and their going to haunt our inbox for as long as the algo’s will let them.

I got one today and it looks quite good here’s a snap:

ascii spam

As you can see the mail is pretty readable so to speak except the commmm something at the end. If you take a better look at those letters you’ll be able to see that their made out of numbers:

spam letters

This shows us that people who do spam are getting more and more ingenious day by day and will stop at nothing to get you buying their crap (drugs, fake accessories, porn etc). We’ll just have to wait and see what tomorrow brings :)

Although a lot of progress has been made concerning this problem there are people out there, gifted ones of course that use all their skills in developing the latest in “spam industry”. Captcha protection simply doesn’t catch it anymore, neither registrations nor any other basic spam avoiding trick.

Xrumer has reached platinum and for only 450 $ this is an affordable spam machine ! If you haven’t checked it out then check the potential here. I’m not promoting spam software but instead I’m just trying to underline the fact that malicious software exists and is reachable to anyone waving the green papers. Most people tend to study software like this because they can come up with better protection but I guess there will always be “the next big thing” and as long as you catch the wave (as a spammer) and monetize the flaw/exploit/tool (basically being always one step ahead) you’re going home with all the goodies.

Of course those who make a living out of spam know what they’re doing and people will do anything to continue their incomes and why not extravagant lifestyle. So what should a web entrepreneur/ seo person do to get some $?

• Mind your own business and work like a slave (Probably the most common decision people tend to take but very lousy payments ).
• Turn to the dark side and risk it for those extra $$$ (n/a if you don’t have the brains/info/connections/software/equipment but very high payments).
• Speculate opportunities while working your ass off or doing blackhat seems to be the best combo but you need to be informed all the time, have the money to invest and be one hell of a salesperson. But things are not impossible, one recent example being the acquisition of Pizza.com and like QuadsZilla was saying…. well it was sold for too little or practically stolen.

It’s really up to you to choose the color of your hat but there are a few variables that people tend to forget about in any industry. Besides knowledge a person should be able to to think outside the box and adapt as the business evolves… makes sense right?