that just gives me the warm fuzzies…
I just checked my Cox e-mail and saw a piece of spam with the subject line of:
“How can one become a terr*rist?” (the asterisk is mine, = “O”)
It goes on to welome me to their website, and advertise they sell all sorts of b*mbs.
Yes, b*mbs.
WTF?!
Usually I delete spam, but I think this is one I’m going to end up reporting to my ISP.
I did a whois on the domain, and it’s valid (I have not visited it), and the phone number listed on the whois info matches a number that is contained in the spam.
It may be nothing but just spam, but it’s still quite creepy. *shudder*
Okay, I just now checked Snopes.com and while this particular email isn’t listed, the domain in question IS, and apparently they’ve been the targets of what is called a “Joe Job”. The definition, from Snopes:
“Joe job” is the Internet term for forged e-mail which appears to have been sent by one party, but has actually been forged by someone else with the intent of generating complaints about, and damaging the reputation of, an innocent victim. For example, a “joe jobber” might spam a message containing child pornography to thousands of people using a forged return address of “john.smith@xyzcompany.com” in order to outrage the recipients and provoke them into flooding John Smith’s mailbox with complaints, or to tarnish the reputation of the XYZ Company.
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