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Article #15699Re: Interesting Form of UCE
From: Ron Ritzman
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 00:00
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On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:54:46 GMT, jseymour@LinxNet.com (Jim Seymour) wrote: >> - The subjects are mixed up meaning always the same. >> Example: >> Win YOUR Dad $100,000 for Father's Day! >> Nominate your Dad to be Dad of the Year >> Win Dad $100 Thousand for Father's Day! >[snip] > >I suspect this is evidence of attempts to get around Subject-based >spam filters. I have another take on this. Spammers are beginning to realize that some people, notably AOL users, get so much spam that the likelihood of them reacting positively to one particular spam is very low. Therefore, a few of them are trying to beat the odds by sending multiple spams with different subjects and checksums but essentially the same content just like many do with lottery tickets. Of course the danger is that this kind of thing will become more popular and spammers will enter into pissfights with each other with our inboxes as the battleground. -- Ron Ritzman http://www.supertroll.com
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