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Gas Savings Spam Fills Inboxes
David Utter
Staff Writer
2008-05-12
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The inevitable attention of spammers turned to soaring gas prices, with one set of junk messages promising a way to save at the pump.
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What would you give to shave 70 cents off the price of gas per gallon? Whatever that might be, you'll overpay no matter what the cost.
Still there are some out there who may try what's advertised at the link if they should receive this spam. Only a few suckers will make it profitable for whoever's behind the junk mail.
Security vendor McAfee said not many of these spams have made the rounds so far. By their count, about 0.2 percent of all spam concerns the price of gas.
"Given the high price of oil it is not surprising that a spammer has seen an opportunity to make money by tricking people into offering them a product which claims to reduce gas bills," McAfee's Dave Marcus said in an email.
As always, if it sounds too good to be true, it is. If your spam filter hasn't caught junk like this before it hits your inbox, send it away with the delete key. Gas prices aren't going anywhere until the dollar gets stronger against other world currencies.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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