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   Gordon Stewart, Jul 30th, 2007 @ 4:29am

   
   

   stock spam

   It is sad to say that if people were not stupid and greedy, this spam would not exist. When I read the stats off our spam firewall, I am angered to see its identified more than a million spam emails in a few days.
   abusers should be jailed and fed a diet of spam

    

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   Mark Grafing, Jul 30th, 2007 @ 6:15am

   
   

   Stock Spam

   It is amazing at what length the spammers are hitting mail servers today. Though they can be heavily blocked using MailScanner and Barracuda SPAM Firewalls, the traffic generated is just plain wrong. I attribute this mostly to inept IT groups throwing a mailserver out there without securing it against open relays and adding checks and balances. Being a mail administrator is a full time job these days and it would be nice have some laws in place to "put the spammer in the slammer" I am thankful they are not snail mailing it to me at the cost of natural resources. I quote "The Tick" on this one..."Evil doers mend your wicked ways!"

    

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   Matthew, Jul 30th, 2007 @ 7:14am

   
   

   Not Corporate Servers

   This is not the work of a bumbling IT dept. This is the work of a widespread zombie-net. The average home users have to become more educated and vigilent against infections which allow their systems to pump out a couple thousand message before the respective Abuse dept can disable the modem. Then the scammer moves to the next batch of zombies.
   
   I would suspect the attachments to have viruses attached to claim even more zombies to make the next wave even bigger, and so on. The margin of suckers then increases even as the percentage becomes lower.
   
   Get your firewall up, antivirus up-to-date, and don't open strange email.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jul 30th, 2007 @ 8:32am

   
   

   Legit

   If you're going to go through all that work, why not be legit?

   Wait a minute, didn't you just suggest they become "stock analysts"?

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jul 30th, 2007 @ 6:28pm

   
   

   AC #4 has it exactly right - funny also.
   
   Come on Mike, do you really think that "all that work" is aimed at producing accurate material? Of course not. That's why they are scams. Mike strikes out on this one.

    

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   mdm-adph, Jul 31st, 2007 @ 6:56am

   
   

   Re: Not Corporate Servers

   Of course it's not corporate servers -- most of those are running on an actual well-made operating system like Unix, Linux, or AIX. Breaking the Windows monopoly on the home PC market might go a long way towards fixing this problem!

    

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   Bear, Jul 31st, 2007 @ 1:10pm

   
   

   Stock Spam

   Anyone who accepts executable files (.xls, .pps, etc) in an email is a fool to begin with.

    

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   ChrisH, Aug 13th, 2007 @ 6:15am

   
   

   Re: Stock Spam

   xls and pps aren't executables they are MS Office documents, and most businesses would grind to a halt if they couldn't accept Office documents over email.

    

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