A report due this week from Secure Computing shows that no matter whom you want to win the November elections, Obama is the clear favorite of malcontents, pimp-smacking McCain 6:1 in Spam volume.
Obama trouncing McCain in Spam volume.(IMG:J.Anderson)
Another trend is that Republican VP nominee, Sara “My Yahoo account was P0wned” Palin, leads Senator Joe Biden (Democrat VP nominee) in Spam volume. The report lists Sarah Palin related Spam appearing at a ratio of 5:4 over Spam related to Biden, proving that even Spammers love the soccer mom.
On the main event side of things, Obama is winning by a landslide over McCain in the eyes of Spammers.
“The Barack Obama [Spam] surge appears to have been purposely timed for September 3rd to coincide with the middle of the Republican National Convention, where Sarah Palin had become the talk of the town and expectations were building up to the introduction of the nominees. This may have been meant as a tactic (by the Spammers) to attempt to squash out more legitimate emails or be accepted because of them, or it may have simply been an attempt to take advantage of a national interest in the election Convention,” the report says.
“Though the spam message content itself is nonsensical, the basic [theme] of the Obama email content does tend to revolve around the shallow factors that are espoused in the mainstream media as central campaign issues: race, disputes with Clinton, messianic oratory, and FOX news smears. The McCain spam subjects are equally driven by shallow media propaganda, revolving around age and wealth.”
Examples of such email subjects include:
- Barack Obama Team in Crisis As George W Bush Lends Him 'Full Support'- Satire Site Officially Endorses Obama, For What Painfully Little It's Worth- Obama Supporters Attack Hillary in Second Life- Obama Ahead Amongst Voters with Similarly Weird Names- Jesus Endorses Obama; Four Horsemen Opt for McCain
This trend of using current events in Spam is nothing new. The advice when dealing with them remains the same. The links and attachments they send are all malicious and should be ignored.
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