Online Criminals Prefer Obama to McCain 7 to 1
Spam messages touting fake watches and penis enlargement creams use Obama’s name in the subject line of the email messages 7 to 1 over McCain. I guess spammers obviously think that Obama supporters are much more stupid and thus more likely to fall for their scams.
From Brian Krebs here:
According to research by Secure Computing, spammers are seven times as likely to invoke Obama’s name in a subject line in a bid to trick people into opening the missives.
The company found that spam touting either candidate peaked around the middle of the Republican National Convention. Still, for the month of September, political-themed junk e-mail favored Obama 84 percent of the time, while spam campaigns mentioning McCain made up just 12 percent of the total, Secure Computing said.
Here are a few of the political spam subject lines you may have seen in your inbox recently:
– Obama Ahead Amongst Voters With Similarly Weird Names
– Obama Supporters Attack Hillary in Second Life
– Jesus Endorses Obama; Four Horsemen Opt for McCain
The democrat party is the party of criminals. Jailbirds coast to coast support Obama. Too bad they can’t vote, huh?
According to research by Secure Computing, spammers are seven times as likely to invoke Obama’s name in a subject line in a bid to trick people into opening the missives.