KHAAAAAN!
I am being bombarded with a new spam campaign. A typical email contains the following text:
Furthermore, safety, privacy, discretion, and time are all major factors.
It is then followed by a URL. The software generating the messages, though, is smart enough to shuffle the order of the “factor” words around, and sometimes omit one of them. So I tried creating a “Delete It” filter in Gmail that matches all email with the words “safety”, “privacy”, and “discretion”. That would eliminate 80% of spam from this campaign. However, according to a test search, I would miss quite a few messages from the ACLU….
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June 26th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I would miss quite a few messages from the ACLU
That’s not a bug, that’s a feature. I love the ACLU, and I don’t regret giving them money over the years, but I do regret giving them my personal information. In terms of spam and (more importantly) junk snail mail, letting them get to me was a huge mistake, because they immediately shared my information with any slightly left-leaning organization that they could find.