Will wrote:
Something humourous I've found in my spam inbox - an email from "trademark Wikimedia" offering me "top quality medicine". I know about exotic names used in spam emails, but I'd never thought "Wikimedia" would be one. The scary thing is, I think this has happened before.
Lately spammers have started using current news headlines as the subject lines in their emails as a way of getting people to open them. I actually got a Viagra ad a few days ago with the subject line, "Wikipedia founder plans search engine."
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If it's from someone I don't know I'd still delete it. I will take my Wikimedia info from the mailing list thank you. Besides, if it's about viagra selling my spam filter kills it anyway.
Mgm
On 3/31/07, Sheldon Rampton sheldon@prwatch.org wrote:
Will wrote:
Something humourous I've found in my spam inbox - an email from "trademark Wikimedia" offering me "top quality medicine". I know about exotic names used in spam emails, but I'd never thought "Wikimedia" would be one. The scary thing is, I think this has happened before.
Lately spammers have started using current news headlines as the subject lines in their emails as a way of getting people to open them. I actually got a Viagra ad a few days ago with the subject line, "Wikipedia founder plans search engine."
| Sheldon Rampton | Research director, Center for Media & Democracy (www.prwatch.org) | Author of books including: | Friends In Deed: The Story of US-Nicaragua Sister Cities | Toxic Sludge Is Good For You | Mad Cow USA | Trust Us, We're Experts | Weapons of Mass Deception | Banana Republicans | The Best War Ever
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