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by Sue Walsh on December 14, 2007
Penny stocks use Thanksgiving holiday captions in subject line - spammers using common personal Thanksgiving-related words in the subject of emails
Replica products a favorite for spammers this holiday season - replica gear has always been a spammer favorite. Spammers are marketing their wares using seasonal words in the subject lines of their mailings
Spam begins to snowball - spammers collecting email addresses by using a funny .gif that shows a snowball hurtling at you through your computer
Christmas freebie anyone? - spammers taking advantage of the season to market "free" gift cards for well known companies
Seasonal lotto scams - in a scam targeted at UK end users, spammers have updated a lottery spam email for a Christmas Bonanza special
Check out the rest of the report for more analysis and trends!
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