New outlets all over are running with the story that Google has been named the 4th largest spam provider by Spamhaus. But Google moved quick to fix the problem. The WaPo Security Fix blog has the details.
Spamhaus: Google Now 4th Most Spam-Friendly Provider
Google’s free services are being heavily exploited by spammers to redirect visitors to [...]
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Nigerian 419
Nigeria is world famous for its “advance-fee fraud” spam. (also called the 419 fraud, Nigerian scam, Nigerian bank scam etc) An advance-fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the victim is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain later. - The old “We have 10 [...]