US Politicians Contribute to Spam Glut

In the run-up to the November 7 US mid-term elections, Republican and Democratic parties sent out unsolicited emails campaigning for support.

The emails urged recipients to take to the polls and cast their votes. Samples were picked up by security firm Sophos's global network of spamtraps -- providing evidence that the emails have not been targeted specifically at US voters, and could have been distributed to lists created through online email address 'harvesting'.

» tech2 India - Sharon Khare - 10-11-2006

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