An email advertisement in the form of an image in the message rather than text in order to avoid detection as spam. Spam filters typically analyze words in a message, which is relatively fast ...

So far, this is working well for the spammers: So-called image spam has doubled over the past year and now accounts for about one-third of daily worldwide spam message volume, according to ...

Spam originated with ordinary text, which can be easily scanned. Image spam came next, making it more difficult to detect; however, spam filters learned to recognize image spam patterns.

Spam filters are designed to read words, but scammers have gotten clever and embedded words into an image that contains both text and a fake QR code. Since they are simply image files, QR codes do ...