Spammers announce World War III

IT news ^ | 7/10/08 | Robert Jaques

[Dawnsblood]

Please consider this a PSA.

[fzx12345]

Probably the same people who sent the “Beijing Olympics Canceled due to 2nd Earthquake” spam a few weeks ago.

[bajabaja]

So 20,000 troops are invading an area where a nuclear weapon was just detonated?

And these guys want to call themselves hackers.

[karnage]

If only...

[max americana]

> Just now US Army’s Delta Force and US Air Force have invaded Iran. <

It’s NOT real!?! Bummer.

[Coffee200am]

20,000?

[mdittmar]

Shhs,it’s a secret.

[Dawnsblood]

I suggest everyone warn friends and family. Trojans and viruses suck.

[Eagles6]

Thanks for the warning.

[singfreedom]

You just have to wonder what inspires these dumbas$es to do this stuff. Is it a foreign country trying to damage our communication? Some of the phrasing in the video message made we wonder. The words are transposed and unusual “today morning”, etc.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Wars and rumors of war...

[Dawnsblood]

Most likely they want to cripple our ability to communicate. I would guess but please warn anyone you know who uses e-mail.

[Seaplaner]

Now if it really happens, will everyone think it’s just another spam?

[struggle]

[Global2010]

I may not get streaming videos/UTube or any thing java and my browser is slower than a slug on a sunny day...

BUT! No viruses to worry about.

[BurbankKarl]

Its probably the work of the oil speculators....

2 days ago. Fake missile launches.

Today. Breaking News report of Israeli planes training and basing in Iraq.

[Terpfen]

Pure simple malice.

As for the phrasing, there are quite a few hackers in east Europe and Turkey.

[SeVeReD]

I detest spam, therefore I detest spammers.

[Entrepreneur]

You just have to wonder what inspires these dumbas$es to do this stuff. Is it a foreign country trying to damage our communication?

SingFreedom,

The majority of attacks come from one country. I know about this first hand and at great personal expense. At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, we are at cyberwar and no one seems to know about it.

One of the best decisions I've made as a CEO was to turn off our site to IP addresses from non-English speaking countries.

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[wildbill]

Anyone who opens this email hoping to get news that isn’t on the TV deserves everything they get.

I just don’t want their stupidity to slop over to my email where I’ll have to delete it.