Spammer targets subconscious mind

That spammers in the corner make strange leaps can be seen from a remarkable message from virus catcher Sophos: they discovered an attempt to manipulate the spam recipient’s subconscious. Spammers are now increasingly resorting to .gif files to get the message through increasingly strict spam filters, and one of them thought that a short animation would be a good plan to boost his so-called pump-and-dump ad. to put.

This ad, urging people to buy shares so that the price rises and the spammer can sell their cheaply bought shares for a profit, was embellished with a few frames that read ‘Buy! Buy! Buy!’. The ‘Buy!’ images would only show for a fraction of a second, so readers should be subconsciously urged to buy the stock right away. Unfortunately for the spammer in question, the texts are visible for so long that they can be seen with the naked eye, and what’s more, ‘subliminal advertising’, as this technique is called, has been used for years. ineffective put aside.