[NTLUG:Discuss] OT:Has anyone else been getting the Linux-oriented subject line spams?

[David Stanaway]

I have.

I assume it is because I have posted in orientated mailing lists, and
some vile spammer out there is harvesting mail archive available online
some place, or subscribed to some of them and harvesting the messages.

I can only think they are just rubbing our noses in it, as people that
participate in those kind of forums, are NOT going to be falling for
some email spam/scam.

Otherwise, they have come up with some reasonably sophisticated harvest
contextual content generation, which again wouldn't surprise me. There
are some clever people out there working on the dark side of the internet :/

Dennis Myhand wrote:
> It looks to me like Linux has truly made it to the mainstream.  Below is 
> the subject line of the most recent stock scam spam I received this morning.
> 
> *"If you have a 3rd volume, even if it's part of the same logical 
> partition as the Windows volume, you would need to use EFS on it if you 
> wanted it encrypted."*
> 
> 
> Of course the actual message has nothing to do with this and is trying 
> to convince people to buy some stock which will promptly be dumped 
> causing the suckers to be parted from their cash.  Anyone else getting 
> these?
>  
> 
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