Must be the “It’s ‘Random name here’ :)” spam day!
I’ve noticed a dramatic increase in a specific type of spam, over several accounts, over the past couple of days. Here is the format:
——– Original Message ——–
Subject: It’s Miranda 🙂
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 22:35:26 +0180
From: Miranda Arias
To:Our Hottest pick this year! Brand new issue Cana Petroleum!
VERY tightly held, in a booming business sector, with a huge publicity campaign starting up, Cana Petroleum (CNPM) is set to bring all our readers huge gains. We advise you to get in on this one and ride it to the top!
Symbol: CNPM
Current Price: $2.95
Projected Price: $11.40Check the stats! Check the level 2! Imagine what this one will do when the full force of the PR campaign hits it, in conjunction with smashing news!
Major oil discovery? We are not permitted to say at this point. All we can say is that this one is going to see amazing appreciation in a very short
period of time! This is your opportunity. Win big with CNPM!
Not only do I not care much about the stock market, I certainly wouldn’t take random stock tips via email. It really upsets me that tactics like this work on people. I say these tactics work because if there wasn’t a market for this type of direct advertising then people wouldn’t use it.
I found this interesting calculator which puts a dollar value on the lost productivity incurred per user.
I also found this link to “Spam Economics“
These emails have been coming fast and furious, and if you look up the company at the SEC web site, you will see it is a failed/insolvent tech company that looks like it is being reincarnated via this spam scam.
The emails seem to come from multiple IP addresses so I wonder if they come from a group of enslaved/infected PCs. If someone can figure out a simple way to block these emails without a lot of extra software that would be a big help.
I've received 38 copies of that email in the last 36 hours. everytime i click that send and receive button, i get 4 or 5 more, each from a different person, but with a similar subject and the exact same body. I was just letting you know that these guys are spamming everyone. I made a spam filter just for them. 🙂
Have had 8 of these come in on my email in 10 mins. Seems that the Original company 'Global DataTel Inc' were shut down regarding fraud.
Cana Petroleum were a Prepackaged Software seller.
They have since shut down
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