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Wave of Right-wing Spam Floods Germany

Thursday morning a flood of spam was released on the Internet containing German-language right-wing propaganda. Experts say extremists are using a "spambot" to spread their xenophobic messages as widely as possible.

Not just Germany. Like any other junk email, this hate spam knows no national boundaries. So far I've received several of these racist screeds at my work email, to which I'd not previously seen a single spam. Judging by the cc list the spambot seems to be generating random addresses for my work domain, and by chance a few of them turn out to be valid group mailing lists. Although the big flood appeared across the net today, I got the first one on Monday.

Posted by TimHall at June 17, 2004 10:07 PM | TrackBack
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We had this problem yesterday; it crippled my firm, and we use Postini, an excellent anti-spam fighter.

Posted by: Scott on June 18, 2004 12:03 AM

It got as far as crashing mail servers in America?

Posted by: Tim Hall on June 19, 2004 12:44 AM
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