Spammers Play On Economic Fears
Symantec Anti-Virus Marketing Guys Look To Make Lemonade By Playing on Fear of Spammers
I think it was Franklin Roosevelt who said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. And having your computer crash.”
Or maybe that was Jim Roosevelt in the IT department.
Symantec, in its February 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report, said spammers are “using the current shaky economic conditions to their advantage.”
I haven’t been this surprised since I found out Amy Winehouse had a drug problem.
The report also noted that car salesmen often use higher gas prices to sell more fuel-efficient cars, vegans use food illness outbreaks to promote going organic and Al Gore uses anything that happens anywhere on the planet to promote his climate change nonsense.
Not that Symantec, a leading manufacturer of computer security software, might not spin the data a tiny bit to their advantage…
Despite the volume of spam being down 1.3 percent on the month, the Symantec report maintains spammers were capitalizing on economic conditions because, for a few days early in the month, spam levels were above the previous month’s readings.
Which is kind of like saying the Arizona Cardinals won the Super Bowl because, at one point, they were leading the Pittsburgh Steelers.
In a related story, politicians in Washington were totally not playing on economic fears by imposing a massive stimulus bill on the country according to a report in Mad magazine.
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Using shaky economic conditions to his advantage…
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Image: garryknight on Flickr
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