Personalized Spam Rising Sharply, Study Finds

designperfection9 writes "A new study by Cisco Systems Inc. found an alarming increase in the amount of personalized spam, which online identity thieves create using stolen lists of e-mail addresses or other poached data about their victims, such as where they went to school or which bank they use."

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Re:What bothers me more is

[mfh]

Yeah the more complicated the system is, the easier it is to break.

People who aren't computer savvy will rely on someone who is, and this relied upon person typically turns out to have a major chip on their shoulder from years of telephone abuse and schoolyard bullies. The meek shall inherit the earth, because the strong don't understand computers, or have the social graces to bring that fat scary guy in the office a chocolate bar once in a while, which leads to the meek stealing everything from the strong and blaming the economy for any shortfalls.

"THANKS FOR THE CANDY BAR."