Image spam

![Fig. 3. Average size of spam versus percentage of Image Spam[12]](/Images/godic/202502/08/Average_size_of_spam_versus_percentage_of_Image_Spam4831.jpg")
![Fig. 4. Average size of spam versus percentage of Image and ZIP/RAR Spam (2011-2012, per week)[13]](/Images/godic/202502/08/Size_of_spam_versus_Image_and_ZIPRAR_Spam4831.jpg")
Image-based spam, or Image spam, for short, is a kind of E-mail spam where the textual spam message is embedded into images, that are then attached to spam emails. Since most of the email clients will display the image file directly to the user, the spam message is conveyed as soon as the email is opened (there is no need to further open the attached image file).