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

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Wed Mar 28 09:17:43 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?

:)

Uh... I get just about every kind of spam imagineable (I have an account
specifically unfiltered... it's simply AMAZING... and sad at the same
time).

So yes.... and you haven't seen anything (trust me).




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