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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Today's Fun Spam Email

Have you seen this one yet? It purports to be an email from CNN with "custom alerts", but in fact is not coming from CNN at all:

Alert Name: My Custom Alert

Political Correctness to be 2012 Olympic sport
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:09:36 -0700

FULL STORY

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The email is not being sent from a CNN address and the links don't go to CNN stories. It's somebody's attempt to fool email readers into clicking on something they shouldn't. Be careful

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