Propaganda Spam?
The strangest thing has been happening to my inbox lately. In addition to all the monkey porn and free iPods that *some people* sign me up for I've been getting...well...history spam?
Here's the deal. Daily now I get 40-50 messages that are generally in German and often point to articles from Spiegel. SinceIdon'tunderstandwordswith morethantwentyletters I generally just hit the "Junk" button that Firefox most excellently employs. Not really odd, I get a lot of Korean and Spanish spam too. What's odd is the content of these is always about WW2 or German/Armenian hate mongering. The current fascination seems to be on Dresden and or the right-wing escapades of our longwordedfellows.
This is a really odd spam attack. The addresses are from all over the place as any good spammer would employ but the messages are entirely too directed to be mere happenstance. Today's most interesting read on Dresden was from January sent from an obvious dead drop mailbox.
To whomever my history spammer is I would like to say thanks though. It's obviously a lot of effort and the history lessons, not to mention the peek into the modern German psyche, is very interesting. Keep up the good work but please, couldyouquitsendingmethenonEnglishonesplease?
Edit:
Pfft. I thought I was special. Guess some of you are infected and I just happen to be in your mailbox. Spiegel admits its German Neo Nazi propaganda, weeee!
Here's the deal. Daily now I get 40-50 messages that are generally in German and often point to articles from Spiegel. SinceIdon'tunderstandwordswith morethantwentyletters I generally just hit the "Junk" button that Firefox most excellently employs. Not really odd, I get a lot of Korean and Spanish spam too. What's odd is the content of these is always about WW2 or German/Armenian hate mongering. The current fascination seems to be on Dresden and or the right-wing escapades of our longwordedfellows.
This is a really odd spam attack. The addresses are from all over the place as any good spammer would employ but the messages are entirely too directed to be mere happenstance. Today's most interesting read on Dresden was from January sent from an obvious dead drop mailbox.
To whomever my history spammer is I would like to say thanks though. It's obviously a lot of effort and the history lessons, not to mention the peek into the modern German psyche, is very interesting. Keep up the good work but please, couldyouquitsendingmethenonEnglishonesplease?
Edit:
Pfft. I thought I was special. Guess some of you are infected and I just happen to be in your mailbox. Spiegel admits its German Neo Nazi propaganda, weeee!
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Yeah, I've got probably 800+ in the last few days, and the Samba mailing list has been hit hard by this neonazi crap as well.
I think I've finally convinced Spamassassin that it's spam, we'll see.
Great...I've been getting this too. Its going to my university email box and I have no idea what to do.
Friend at work started getting this stuff today as well.
Got my first today. I used to get no spam, but found out the hard way that the Nat'l Assoc of Realtors puts your contact email on the Net.
Oh, you're special all right. :P
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