[NTLUG:Discuss] OT:Has anyone else been getting the Linux-oriented subject line spams?

[Stuart Johnston]

Dennis Myhand wrote:
> It looks to me like Linux has truly made it to the mainstream.  Below is 
> the subject line of the most recent stock scam spam I received this morning.
> 
> *"If you have a 3rd volume, even if it's part of the same logical 
> partition as the Windows volume, you would need to use EFS on it if you 
> wanted it encrypted."*
> 
> 
> Of course the actual message has nothing to do with this and is trying 
> to convince people to buy some stock which will promptly be dumped 
> causing the suckers to be parted from their cash.  Anyone else getting 
> these?

I've seen some like it as well.  Probably just random coincidence, 
though.  Spammers extract text from webpages to use in spam.  There is a 
lot of Linux information on the web so there is a reasonable probability 
that some Linux info will end up in that random text.