SPAM levels back up

[Tom Wilson]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 09:12 -0600, Ben Duncan wrote:
> What amazes me, Is the number of Penny Stock / Gold trading /
> and all sorts of stuff along those lines actually seeming
> coming from legit email address. "Hi its Terry/Joe/Charlie/Kathy ..etc.."
> is usually in the headers now. The body has nonsensical stuff at the
> bottom to confuse Byzantine (SIC?) filters.
> 
> I just bet, all of these are prolly coming from 'Botted Windslows
> users PeeCee's

I was reading an article on overwhelming rise in spam this morning and
it talked about the  penny stock spam.  It is a new way for spammers to
make money on the old pump n dump scam.  Send spam out to get people to
buy up the stock then sell theirs off.  


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Tom Wilson
McSwain Carpets