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Adventures in Spam: The Sandwich Technique

May 25th, 2007

More of those inedible varieties of Spam have been arriving in my email over the past few days, and the latest batch of them has been using an old tactic that I like to call the “sandwich technique”.
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Adventures in Spam: The Hidden URL

May 20th, 2007

While sifting through another batch of spam yesterday, I ran across a tactic that I do not see very often but is still somewhat interesting. I am not sure about its effectiveness, however.
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Adventures in Spam: Appeal to Greed

May 12th, 2007

Being an Internet marketer who has been making (and sometimes losing) money online since 2004, I have joined lots of programs, registered at many sites, and opted in to many other marketers’ email lists. Not surprisingly, this has resulted in a fair amount of spam mails flowing into my inbox over time.
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Suspicious Spam Email Targets Regions Bank Customers

May 10th, 2007

spam-scam.jpgThis morning I have received a Spam email pretending to originate from Regions Bank. As a public service, I want to relay this information to any readers of this site who may be current customers because I have examined the text and determined that it is almost certainly a phishing scam.

The subject line of the email reads:

Regions Bank corporate customer cervice: urgent security notice! (message id: w32732174227357)

Note that the spammer cannot spell the word “service” correctly. This should be your first clue that this email may not be entirely legitimate! Here is the actual text:

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