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  Anonymous Coward, 19 Nov 2004 @ 12:31pm

  
  

  Spam conspiracy?

  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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    bbay, 19 Nov 2004 @ 1:35pm

    
    

    Re: Spam conspiracy?

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

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      JC, 20 Nov 2004 @ 3:02am

      
      

      Re: Spam conspiracy?

      It's probably a Directory Harvest Attack.

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  Mark, 19 Nov 2004 @ 4:20pm

  
  

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

    
    

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    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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