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AOL Names Top Spam Subjects For 2005

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the glad-i-don't-pay-for-smtp-by-the-byte dept.

JamesAlfaro writes "Donald Trump and "penis patch" were the most popular subject lines used by spammers this year, as the fraudsters grew more sophisticated in trying to trick consumers, America Online said Wednesday in its third annual Top 10 Spam List. Six out of the 10 top subject lines this year fell into what experts call "special-order spam," which pretend to be from a friend, or part of a legitimate, customer-driven transaction."

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  1. Need vengeance? by lheal · · Score: 0, Troll
    I'd like to find these morons running these machines...

    I think they found you first.

    But besides, wouldn't it be much nicer to crap down the neck of the marketing genius who designed the operating system responsible for the mess in the first place?

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