DOC spam
July 23rd, 2007 by noam, Filed under: Commentary, Spam
Just weeks after we started getting PDF spam, this morning I received my very first DOC spam. The document spam talks about the usual “I am Barrister Musa Adams a Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to MR. Harry Edward Cook a national of your country, who used to work with CADBURY NIGERIA LIMITED, on the 21st of April 2004, my client, his wife and their three children were involved in a car accident along Shagamu Lagos Express Road.” which makes it very uninteresting, but unlike “regular” (non-DOC) spam of this sort, it doesn’t get filtered as documents aren’t currently being scanned for spam.
Now that we are done with PDF and DOC, what is left? 
RTF?
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