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Originally Posted by cookie_365
And it could include html code that points back to an image on the spammer's server, so if you open, or even preview, an html message in html as opposed to plain text, the spammer can see that the message has been successfully sent - and send you some more.
I don't really understand how it works myself, but I'm assured it does.  |
If you view the image in the email (normal a 1 x1 pixel clear image) then you effectively visiting the spammers site; if i sent you an email with an image for example
www.mydomain.com/image.jpg and you viewed it, the html would cause your email client to access
www.mydomain.com/image.jpg to download the image. The spammer can then view the logs on their server to see the ip addresses that have accessed the site. I am sure they have programs that can automatically log this and so the spamming continues...
hth
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