Re: Oh noes, Wikimedia is selling me meds

Will wrote:

> Something humourous I've found in my spam inbox - an
email from  
> "trademark
> Wikimedia" offering me "top quality
medicine". I know about exotic  
> names
> used in spam emails, but I'd never thought
"Wikimedia" would be  
> one. The
> scary thing is, I think this has happened before.

Lately spammers have started using current news headlines as
the  
subject lines in their emails as a way of getting people to
open  
them. I actually got a Viagra ad a few days ago with the
subject  
line, "Wikipedia founder plans search engine."

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If it's from someone I don't know I'd still delete it. I
will take my
Wikimedia info from the mailing list thank you. Besides, if
it's about
viagra selling my spam filter kills it anyway.

Mgm


On 3/31/07, Sheldon Rampton <sheldonprwatch.org> wrote:
>
> Will wrote:
>
> > Something humourous I've found in my spam inbox -
an email from
> > "trademark
> > Wikimedia" offering me "top quality
medicine". I know about exotic
> > names
> > used in spam emails, but I'd never thought
"Wikimedia" would be
> > one. The
> > scary thing is, I think this has happened before.
>
> Lately spammers have started using current news
headlines as the
> subject lines in their emails as a way of getting
people to open
> them. I actually got a Viagra ad a few days ago with
the subject
> line, "Wikipedia founder plans search
engine."
>
> --------------------------------
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> |  Research director, Center for Media & Democracy
(www.prwatch.org)
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> |     Friends In Deed: The Story of US-Nicaragua Sister
Cities
> |     Toxic Sludge Is Good For You
> |     Mad Cow USA
> |     Trust Us, We're Experts
> |     Weapons of Mass Deception
> |     Banana Republicans
> |     The Best War Ever
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