[WikiEN-l] Oh noes, Wikimedia is selling me meds

[Sheldon Rampton]

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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