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I need your spam!

beer

Lifer
How many of you get the spam where, when opened, a remote image opens, but the message got through filters since the email itself has no (or nonsensical) body text?

Great. I need these remote images sent to me for a project. It's for a Digital Image Processing class, and the objective is to develop algorithms to detect the legitimacy of e-mail images (at a very basic level).

Obviously, I can't run analysis on porn, as fun as it would be. Ideally, I'm looking for spam that deals with pharmaceuticals, but I haven't received any of this type since I closed down my last e-mail address.

Please send me a PM if you have an image you can e-mail to me. Format doesn't matter since it will be altered to comply with our image handling libraries.

EDIT 3/30: We're starting to code algorithms for this project using a series of DFT-based image analysis routines, and we really need more spam messages to test, especially those with text or other sharp constrasts between colors.
 
Originally posted by: gw186
They have pop-ups in email's? Never heard of it before.

It's not really a popup, but the body of the spam is an image - not text - which eludes bayesian and other spam filters that require body text to work properly.
 
Still looking for a couple of more 'test' images to develop algorithms against. Please, you will have my sincerest thanks for sending a PM and shooting off a mere e-mail with a single attachment!
 
We're starting to code algorithms for this project using a series of DFT-based image analysis routines, and we really need more spam messages to test, especially those with text or other sharp constrasts between colors. Please, send me a PM
 
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