Unsolicited online solicitations from people marketing war-related merchandise has become the fastest-growing new type of spam, according to British e-mail filtering company SurfControl.
At the end of March that war-related spam rose from an insignificant number to nearly 10% of all spam collected and monitored for the firm’s anti-spam database. Most of the war-related spam began to appear in mid-March, using patriotism and fear to sell everything from lapel pins to gas masks.
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