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Spammer Uses isoHunt for Cover in Scam e-Mail

By soulxtc

"Miss Doris" claims to have met me on the BitTorrent tracker site, and is simply searching "for a good man who understands what sex, marriage, and real love is all about." Who says BitTorrent can't bring people together? We all get spam each day from supposed desperate oil barons, princes, and former kings all looking for our help in regaining their lost fortunes, but how about ones that try to lure you in with tales of love and friendship using alleged contacts in a BitTorrent tracker site forum? Gmail does a great job filtering out what should be an endless parade of spam trouncing otherwise important correspondence, just ask anyone who uses Yahoo or Hotmail what that's like. But, every once in a while a piece of spam does get through and it's usually of the pretty creative type having been successful in beating Gmail's diligent spam police. This was the case for the one that reads as follows from "Miss Doris," glaring poor punctuation, misspellings, and all: Dear Friend,  how are you?I find you on ww.isohunt.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 30, 2008 (boomark / email).