The new spam campaign asks for chain letters to be forwarded to the spammers (who are posing as a researcher called Gemma). However, Sophos warns that rather than conducting a study of chain letters, the recipients are actually planning to gather innocent peoples' contact details for the purposes of spam and identity theft.
I used to be amazed by the email ids that would be accessible to me through chain mails. Seems like the spammers have got a nice idea here.
A better twist would be to send an email with the following text:
"(whatever-service-name) has decided to stop its (whatever-free-service-name) as many people are using it, which is more than what was expected. So (whatever-service-name) is going to close down the free service and will make it a commercial product. If you want to stop this, please forward this email to as many friends as you can and send a copy (CC) of the mail to (whatever-spammer's-email-id). Thank you"
What is the bet that such a mail will get mass circulated and each person will send a CC of the mail to the spammer !!!!
People !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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