Animated Gif Spam

(Image from here)

Just heard about this... apparently one of the new ways spammers are getting through filters (some systems have implemented OCRs or other systems to detect spam in images in messages) is to use an animated GIF to throw off the anti-spam software.


Can't these programmers get a real job?


Moreover, email was designed for text-only messages -- no pretty fonts or colors, no attachments. Anything fancy is a hack, and allows new exploits... but I guess the cat is out of the bag now...