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Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife

2008-07-01 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
The Global S.P.A.M. Diaries was an experiment by McAfee to find out what would happen if 50 volunteers from around the world put aside common sense and answered every e-mail spam that came to them, chronicling the results. Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., was among them, and she tells what she saw in her online...
 
Tags: penelope retch, online identity, tracy mooney, e-mail spam, common sense, experiment, global, naperville, world
 
 
 
 
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What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam

2008-07-03 20:50:18 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Each S.P.A.M. volunteer saw an average of 70 spam messages arrive in their in-box each day, with men receiving about 15 more per day than women. That was a lot to answer, but "Penelope Retch" the alias that Mooney chose for her S.P.A.M. adventure answered every single message
 
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