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Posted by: charbarred 1 year, 5 months ago

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There's still plenty of spam going around, but "adult" spam has been on a steady decline and hit an all-time low in February, according to a new Symantec report.

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Amat1 year, 5 months ago

Thank You! Now if we can make the stock promotions go away...
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  fudgie1 year, 5 months ago
  
  I'm totally inundated with those things..... very underhanded sender/subject lines, too. Ugh.
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    AMDeitzler1 year, 5 months ago
    
    I had 12 of these already today! They are by far the biggest amount of spam I get. I wonder if anyone actually buys those stocks.
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BronxBomber1 year, 5 months ago

Amen to that! But porno spam on the decline???... Well somebody forgot to tell my Outlook Express...
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  itsme21 year, 5 months ago
  
  My thoughts exactly! I get so much of this junk! Always either porn or penis pumps!
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aquarius4481 year, 5 months ago

Try and convince any successful webmasters that "adult" spam has been on a steady decline and they will laugh at you. The spam attacks keep on coming. Do generic boner pills count as adult spam?
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KYRed1 year, 5 months ago

This is the kind of spam most encountered by me.
From: barristerabu Block To: KYRed
Attention,
I am Mr. Barrister Abu Hammed security attached to presidency Accra Ghana, we have some names in our files here of some foreigners that have huge fund here in Africa banks or security companies (UNCLAIMED), if any amount was taken from you false fully without the money getting to the account of this banks or security companies, this money will be pay ed (BACK TO YOU) first after some identification officially before we will imminently make sure you receive your funds with out further complain we had many complains in our recent (U.N MEETING)
We also have with us here Gold's Packages from Royal homes that some foreigners pay ed money to buy but out of greed the refuse to deliver this products to the owners, with official identification then we can help you.
For more details email me direct security_abu@bigstring.com or abu_barrister@yahoo.com
Best Regards,
Barrister Hammed

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  fudgie1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Got one of those, myself... in fact I think it was a message in my Netscape messages, which is really weird.
  Sounds like a tempting deal, though. (Yeah, right)
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  stephen-johnson1 year, 5 months ago
  
  http://www.answers.com/topic/internet-fraud
  Not a day goes by that I don't get spam like the one you cited. Porn is on the decline
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    stephen-johnson1 year, 5 months ago
    
    I heard a story about a woman employee of a firm in Boston that got scammed by the Nigerians to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. I tried doing a google search, but couldn't find it.
    Phishing e-mails are on the rise, as well. My google mail accounts gets dozens of them every week. I hardly use it anymore
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NelsonR1 year, 5 months ago

My faith in America is growing. With all the perversion on the net and within America this has got to be a positive. Now don't get me wrong I am not religious and despise the religious righteous but I think America should stand for a higher moral ground in the world.
I'm so sick of the evil within America like that pedophile who buried that little girl alive in Florida. If I had my way, sorry liberals, I would hang this jerk myself. Our judicial system with our corrupt lawyers are a bane on not only America, but the world. Now if you despise what I say, what if a relative of yours was brutally murdered or raped? Would you really want him to live out his life without consequence? Living in jail with three squares a day is not punishment but being executed the minute you are found guilty is more appropriate. These endless appeals and the continued involvement of lawyers is obscene. The lawyers become richer while America suffers. But who makes our laws, LAWYERS.
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chevydog1 year, 5 months ago

These things keep the "delete" key working. I'd guess that 40% of my mail is phishing, with another 30% being stock "tips." Rather little porno though. Maybe only 10-15% "real" mail.
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hoppy1 year, 5 months ago

Good, about time common decency was heard.
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zikuvaw2 months, 2 weeks ago

I am Mr. Barrister Abu Hammed security attached to presidency Accra Ghana, we have some names in our files here of some foreigners that have huge fund here in Africa banks or security companies (UNCLAIMED), if any amount was taken from you false fully without the money getting to the account
http://niuciji.smtp.ru/porno-sayt-seks-video-fi...
of this banks or security companies, this money will be pay ed (BACK TO YOU) first after some identification officially before we will imminently make sure you receive your funds with out further complain we had many complains in our recent (U.N MEETING)
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