{"id":651,"date":"2006-09-05T08:58:05","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T08:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/651"},"modified":"2022-02-09T22:04:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T22:04:27","slug":"subliminals-in-my-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/651","title":{"rendered":"Subliminals in my spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/subliminal-spam.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy\/subliminal-spam-buy.jpg\" alt=\"subliminal-spam-buy.jpg\" width=\"166\" height=\"81\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\"><\/a> This may be old hat to some of you, but it was new to me \u2014 I just got an email spam that includes <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subliminal_message\">subliminals<\/a>. The whole ad is an <a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy\/subliminal-spam.gif\">animated GIF<\/a> designed such that the word <i><b>BUY!<\/b><\/i> flashes over the email for a split second every 30 seconds (including briefly as the email loads). I doubt this&#8217;ll actually make the spam any more effective (and in this case it&#8217;s a stock-push-scam, so the spammer-scammer won&#8217;t know either), but it&#8217;s interesting to see what they&#8217;re up to these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/subliminal-spam.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right:5px\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/subliminal-spam-buy.jpg\" border=\"1\" height=\"81\" width=\"166\" alt=\"subliminal-spam-buy.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>  This may be old hat to some of you, but it was new to me \u2014 I just got an email spam that includes <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subliminal_message\">subliminals<\/a>. The whole ad is an <a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/subliminal-spam.gif\">animated GIF<\/a> designed such that the word <i><b>BUY!<\/b><\/i> flashes over the email for a split second every 30 seconds (including briefly as the email loads). I doubt this&#8217;ll actually make the spam any more effective (and in this case it&#8217;s a stock-push-scam, so the spammer-scammer won&#8217;t know either), but it&#8217;s interesting to see what they&#8217;re up to these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}