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New Stock Spam Attack Underway Today

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  Posted 02 October 2007 - 02:04 PM

While I've seen some of stock spam examples in the bulk email filters today, I've not seen significant volume so far. Recently, I have been seeing the use of characters and double spacing between letters in spam as noted in these examples:

New Stock Spam Attack underway today
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/he...m-underway.html

QUOTE: Our systems are picking up a major new wave of stock spam. These spams will likely go undetected by antispam programs for the next several hours until filters are updated.
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Posted 04 October 2007 - 06:51 AM

The link is returning "Page Not Found" on sunbeltblog.blogspot.
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