I guess Spam comes in waves like anything else. What the spammer-shmucks are doing now is presuming to be stock market advisors. My junkmail used to be 80% or better about sexand drugs --VIagara, teens, pharmaceuticals, animals of all description, and various combinations thereof. Now, I'm getting about 40% suggestions on promising penny stocks and small-caps.

I can only assume these guys buy the stock, dump the spam, and sell on the upttick, despite the fact that this is illegal according to SEC regs. These guys don't give a shit if they break old ladies or fool people with NO reserves into debt. They're scum of the earth.

Anyone else notice this trend?

In addition there is a new art-form appearing in this criminal sector called "pharming". Unlike "phishing", where you can readily see the fraudulent construction of bogus email from "Citbank" or "E-Bay" asking you to send in your credit information, these "pharming" guys take genuine links to banks and on-line services and intercept the sessions at the server, redirecting them without your knowledge to a bogus site where you proceed in innocence until you lose your savings account or whatever. It is relatively small in numbers yet, but how long will that last?

This kind of thing takes all the pride, pleasure and safety out of using the internet as an advanced tool of civilization, and puts it down with the trash and gutter-bums who would as soon kill you as look at you. I spit.

Regards,



Amos