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 …read more