Michael Hampton at the Homeland Stupidity blog has discovered a new spammer-the government! He reports receiving spam from the Overseas Security Council, a branch of the State Department. The spam came from an employee address and hawked a get rich quick scheme which involved sending him $44.95 to get a website and the ability to send millions of spam messages a day. Sure it’s very possible the computer that sent it was infected by a Trojan or virus, but this is the Federal Government! They of all people should have air tight computer security. Michael says he emailed the OSC but got no response. Pretty interesting. Either there is a spammer working for the government, or they have a serious security breach somewhere!
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