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   Spam conspiracy?

   

   Anonymous Coward, Nov 19th, 2004 @ 12:31pm

   
   

   I have been tracking spam for a while now, and have seen a noticeable rise in what I call 'fake spam'; spam that contains no links etc. and appears to serve no other purpose but keeping the amounts of spam at a high level. These 'fake spams' range from just random text, to some odd 'story' to a typical viagra/manhood-enlarging email that either contains no link or contact info or a link that never was what it's supposed to offer.

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   Re: Spam conspiracy?

   

   bbay, Nov 19th, 2004 @ 1:35pm

   
   

   Yeah, I noticed that too!
   
   What the hell *IS* that?

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   Mark, Nov 19th, 2004 @ 4:20pm

   
   

   Depending on how you look at it, you could argue that religious indoctrination has *always* been spam, even two thousand years ago. It comes at you unsolicited; it can be hard to get it to stop; it often comes attached to a request for money. If so, the question isn't why we're seeing religious spam now, but why it's taken so long for religious spam to enter a medium that's so well suited to its traditional purpose.

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   Re: Spam conspiracy?

   

   JC, Nov 20th, 2004 @ 3:02am

   
   

   It's probably a Directory Harvest Attack.

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   a different Mark, Nov 21st, 2004 @ 11:49am

   
   

   Maybe the response come from the same bunch of morons. People credulous enough believe in stories of invisible pink bunnies in the sky are probably more likely to fall for other unlikely BS too.

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