[NTLUG:Discuss] OT:Has anyone else been getting the Linux-oriented subject line spams?
Stuart Johnston
saj at thecommune.net
Wed Mar 28 08:42:51 CDT 2007
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.
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