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September 11, 2004

Reverse twist spam with a half-gainer

I've been noticing that, not surprisingly, spammers seem to be getting yet smarter about their subject lines; I'm having to open more of the little buggers that get through the Thunderbird spam filter to see if they are in fact spams.

This morning, though, I got one with a twist I don't understand. the subject line was "Don't open this, I'm pushing cia!is."

No, I didn't open it.

Posted by D. Weinberger at September 11, 2004 09:18 AM

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Reverse-psychology.

It was good for a laugh, if nothing else.

Note it did manage to get you to write a blog post about it :-)

Posted by: Seth Finkelstein | September 11, 2004 06:19 PM

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