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[loose wire] This is quite a neat example of mule spam, or at least I think it is. A mule is someone who is lured, willingly or unwittingly, into moving money around for scamsters — often, but not always, phishers. Scamsters, you see, may be able to empty your bank account, but not always into an account in a different country, so unless they happen to live in the same place as you, they need someone else to move money from one place to another.
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[Loosewire.typepad.com] Loose Wire: Printing: This is quite a neat example of mule spam, or at least I think it is. A mule is someone who is lured, willingly or unwittingly, into moving money around for scamsters — often, but not always, phishers. Scamsters, you see, may be able to empty your bank account, but not always into an account in a different country, so unless they happen to live in the same place as you, they need someone else to move money from one place to another.
[Loosewire.typepad.com] Loose Wire: April 18, 2005 - April 24, 2005: This is quite a neat example of mule spam, or at least I think it is. A mule is someone who is lured, willingly or unwittingly, into moving money around for scamsters — often, but not always, phishers. Scamsters, you see, may be able to empty your bank account, but not always into an account in a different country, so unless they happen to live in the same place as you, they need someone else to move money from one place to another.
[Loosewire.typepad.com] loose wire: Phishing: It costs $30. Another program that does something quite similar is eMailTrackerPro which will also identify the network provider of the sender, including contact information for abuse reporting, and uncovers the 'misdirection' tactic commonly used by spammers. Of course, LocationMail may not help that much, since legitimate emails might not, in Internet terms, originate from the place where they should. But it does a pretty good job and is useful if, say, you’re not sure about whether an email is spam or not (it does happen) the fact it originated in Seoul should provide a clue (unless you know lots of people in Seoul, of course).
[Feedmine.com] Email news - feedmine for web developers: Last week, MSNBC published a story about a small California ISP that has sued Kraft Foods over alleged spam. The ISP, HyperTouch, claims that Kraft has sent out thousands of unsolicited emails promoting its Gevalia coffee subscription service. Hypertouch says...
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Posted at May 25, 2005 01:53 PM
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