Flickr spam

Aug 22, 2007 11:45

This Flickr account leads with computer-generated investment spam, apparently designed to avoid computer text analysis for reasons I don't understand. The confusing part is that there are also 100+ genuine-looking photos of Indian people on holiday in Asia, sorted into likely-looking photosets. But then the name of the account is "Desaiinvest" -- ( Read more... )

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meetar August 23 2007, 02:43:05 UTC
Maybe, but in that case why use spam-code to populate the names and descriptions of the images? They're not leaving any avenue of exploitation unturned, I suppose. Regardless, I have to say the combination of early 90's bitmapness and 80's graphic design old-schoolness may rate one of these a place on my wall.

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