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419 Spammers At It Again

Filed in archive Spam News by Sue Walsh on July 3, 2008

We've all gotten at least one in our inbox-an email from a foreign aristocrat of some sort, begging for your help in getting their multi million dollar fortune out of the country. In return for letting them use your bank account, they will give you a hefty cut. It a scam, a huge scam and one of the most widespread on the internet-and now the scammers have added a new twist. They use phishing tactics to take over web based email accountslinks and then send their spam to every address in the compromised account's address book. Read more about this new twist in Symantec's latest report, found here.






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