[edit] Anatomy of spam: contents

Typical spam contents are:

"pump and dump" stock promotion
links to WWW servers, in our lingo they are called spamvertised
- various sites that pretend to be e-commerce - mostly they exist just to get your credit card data
- phishing sites that pretend to belong to a real organisation
email messages that look ordinary and "need" your reply to an existing address
- 419 scams
- dating services
- job application scams
distribution of malware