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kas
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I no longer do indepth security inspections. Now this is more of a hobby I do in my spare time.

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Invisible Link Spammer? Apr 13, 2011 22:45:23 GMT -5

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Post by kas on Apr 13, 2011 22:45:23 GMT -5

Probably the most troublesome spammer is the one that can hide their spam links very well and you can't find them. You might suspect someone is a spammer but unless you can prove it how are you to ban them?

Well this one registered on a forum (not mine) and it was only flagged once but searching in Google revealed this spammer hid its links in images! Well of course that won't fool anyone right? Think again! What if the image was your own forum images such as

Yup! That is what this spammer did! No links in profile or signature or seemingly in posts but there was a link. Just not visible to the untrained eye!

Take a look at the attached picture.

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