Monthly Archives: February 2005

Spammers using news stories to increase credibility

In an interesting twist, I got a variant of the Nigerian Oil Scam today that uses BBC news stories to lend credibility to their story. At first I thought that the links in the e-mail might be fakes like those … Continue reading

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Air pollution alert for the southern half of Minnesota(!)

The faculty and staff for the entire University of Minnesota (all campuses) just got this by e-mail: The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has issued an Air Pollution Alert for Friday and Saturday, February 25 and 26 for the southern … Continue reading

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