{"id":71,"date":"2005-02-26T14:06:27","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/02\/26\/spammers-using-news-stories-to-increase-credibility\/"},"modified":"2005-02-26T14:06:27","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T20:06:27","slug":"spammers-using-news-stories-to-increase-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/02\/26\/spammers-using-news-stories-to-increase-credibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Spammers using news stories to increase credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting twist, I got a variant of the Nigerian Oil Scam today that uses <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/3338023.stm\">BBC news stories<\/a> to lend credibility to their story.<\/p>\n<p>At first I thought that the links in the e-mail might be fakes like those used in phishing scams, but they appear to be genuine.<\/p>\n<p>One might wonder what these folks could accomplish if they turned all this time and creative energy to more socially productive pursuits&#8230;<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 used in phishing scams, but they appear to be genuine. One might wonder what these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/02\/26\/spammers-using-news-stories-to-increase-credibility\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spammers using news stories to increase credibility&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-19","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":548,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/05\/01\/jocp-im-in-wired\/","url_meta":{"origin":71,"position":0},"title":"JOCP &#8211; I&#8217;m in Wired!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"1 May 07","format":false,"excerpt":"OK - total ego post here; feel free to look the other way. 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