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  Nils Decker    Premium Member   Group moderator

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  Obama Spam

  Hi all,
  
  As predicted in Terry's anti-spam blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/tzink/archive/2008/11/04/obama-s-victo...), the amount of "political spam" has increased significantly over the past week. Most of the spams are harmless and annoying commercials for a variety of products, others are more compelling and "contain images" in a nice zip-file, of the designated US president's wife.
  
  The evil in this is that spammers manage to disguise themselves behind hot topics that interest the general public. The average email user will have a hard time determining these messages as spam prior to opening them.
  
  Have you/ your customers noticed similar trends?
  
  • 11 Nov 2008, 12:51 pm
  Nils Decker wrote: > Hi all, > > As predicted in Terry's anti-spam blog > (http://blogs.msdn.com/tzink/archive/2008/11/04/obama-s-victory-and-sp > ammers.aspx), the amount of "political spam" has increased > significantly over the past week. Most of the spams are harmless and > annoying commercials for a variety of products, others are more > compelling and "contain images" in a nice zip-file, of the designated > US president's wife. > > The evil in this is that spammers manage to disguise themselves > behind hot topics that interest the general public. The average email > user will have a hard time determining these messages as spam prior > to opening them. > > Have you/ your customers noticed similar trends?