Monthly Archives: February 2005

Spammers using news stories to increase credibility

Posted on 26 Feb 05 by Phi

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(!)

Posted on 25 Feb 05 by Phi

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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