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Friday, April 18, 2003
Spammers Adapt by Keeping Pace with the Times
You may have thought e-mail spammers had reached the end of their creative rope by peddling the same old breast/penis enhancement, Nigerian cash, Viagra, mortgage and get-rich-quick schemes ad nauseam. Well, think again.
Spammers are now more "topical" than ever. In the past five minutes alone, I've gotten spammed about the most-wanted Iraqi card deck (Get the Iraqi 'Most-Wanted' Deck of Playing Cards Only $5.95 a Set!) and a Columbia space shuttle coin. It just goes to show that persistent spammers will hawk whatever they can to as many people as they can in hopes that even one percent of their targets will actually buy into their schemes.
If you've fallen victim to curiosity to any of these schemes (and you're way too smart to do a stupid thing like that), I hope you don't expect to actually receive one of those "thousands" of Iraqi decks. I began seeing spam about these cards just two days or so after the U.S. military announced them. So, unless the military are in cahoots with the spammers, I wouldn't expect spammers to have these cards. Unless...
I'm sure conspiracy theorists will have fun with this one!
Posted by
Cory Kleinschmidt
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