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While researching some information, I came across a Google hit that looked like what I was looking for, but when I opened the page, none of the text in the preview paragraph was there. Somebody must have fed bogus contents to GoogleBot to attract searches.
Instead of the expected information I found myself on a scareware [...]

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A bit over a year ago I wrote here about the “New Shopping, new life” spam that was sent from hacked free webmail accounts to advertise fake Chinese online shops. Recently I am seeing a lot more spam like that, mostly using hacked Hotmail accounts. Here is a typical example:

hello：
Please forgive us to disturb your [...]

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