While trying to catch up on my SpamAssassin mailing list reading, I found this tidbit from Wednesday. Just wonderful …

The world’s e-mail in-boxes are discovering a new, smarter form of stock spam. According to the e-mail security firm Ironport, billions of junk e-mails were sent Wednesday with a professional-looking .pdf attachment, a new tactic in the ongoing spam wars that eluded spam filters and was designed to pump the share price of Talktech Telemedia, a German penny stock on the Frankfurt exchange.

Stock Spam 2.0 - Forbes.com

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I. Want. This. Truck.

Blogged with Flock

Resilient closer used guts, guile / 38-year-old found dead at home

He was known as a great teammate and an even better person. In an era when players distance themselves from fans, Beck embraced them. He often held court in the Giants’ hotel bar buying round after round for ordinary people who would chat with him about baseball.