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Geek.com: E-mail news spam gets local with IP geolocation

“What the spammers are doing is sending out fake e-mails that look like legitimate news reports from Reuters. The news includes details of a bomb explosion, but to make the reader more interested the location of the bomb is said to be in the city they live in – hopefully compelling you to want to know more and clicking the link.”

19 March 2009
13:53


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