[ale] OT: SPAM is winning

[Warren Myers]

I started seeing those 1.5-2 years ago. Image spam is a PITA because too
often images are legit to just ignore totally :/

WMM

On 7/1/07, Sean Kilpatrick <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
>
> There is another insidious spam message flooding the net
> now:  it claims to be a helpful note that a friend has sent
> you an "ecard." Then it offers up a site to download
> the card.
>
> I've gotten more than a dozen of these in the past 3-5 days --
> most of them coming from a Hong Kong site, but not all of them.
>
> The message is cleverly written and it will fool a lot of
> gullible people, especially teenagers on Winders boxen who probably
> don't even know how to pull up the complete header data, much less
> how to read it.  The net result is more computers tied into a botnet.
>
> The Register had a story about it yesterday.
>
> Sean
>
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