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Looks like one of the bigger Spam outfits are back in business this July 2009. The increase in phishing scam's is up a few thousand percent this month.

Lots of these titles in my Gmail Spam folder " You have received an eCard " this one isn't the virus one this month, or at least the email does not contain the actual exe file like it did last month, this month it's a link to a website which may or may not contain the Virus to hook your computer into sending more spam. I assume once they hook a bunch they have to get down to business and actually use the bot net of infected computers. I never mentioned the domain in these ones but today it changed to a Google Groups link, Google groups gets lots of abuse!

And this is the latest attempt to trick people into opening the e-mail " Delivery Status Notification (Failure) ", this one is an older one with a new title, same players just a different title for the phishing spam. The Delivery Status one also comes under the title Re-order or Your Order and bogus number in the title.

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I noticed my Gmail address was showing 3850 e-mails in the spam folder. So I was interested in seeing when I stopped deleting them. Google's dates started to show 1970 when I hit the button to see the beginning of the 38 hundred emails in the spam box. I haven't had a Gmail e-mail that long, mirror bug!

Once I clicked my way up to number 3500 the date was March 22-2009. So in about two months I've received most of these to just one e-mail address!

Most of the e-mails are phishing (fishing) that look like a Newsletter for some Health outfit. I trace a few to keep up on where the crap is coming from.

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