Another odd CIA related Spam
I blogged before about a CIA related spam carrying a virus payload, and now I got another one, almost stranger than the first:
[… a list of keywords, redacted]
more than the specter of the Jackal. She was not looking at David Webb
the soft-spoken scholar. She was staring at a man they both thought had
disappeared from their lives forever. *2* Alexander Conklin gripped his
cane as he limped into the conference room at the Central Intelligence
Agency in Langley, Virginia. He stood facing a long impressive table,
large enough to seat thirty people, but instead there were only three,
the man at the head the gray-haired DCI, director of Central
Intelligence. Neither he nor his two highest-ranking deputy directors
appeared pleased to see Conklin. The greetings were perfunctory, and
rather than taking his obviously assigned seat next to the CIA official
on the DCIs left, Conklin pulled out the chair at the far end of the
table, sat down, and with a sharp noise slapped his cane
It links to http://www.gonesar.com, a pharmacy site. What’s interesting is that this “random” text is taken from Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Ultimatum. Although the tet of the book is available online, it’s clearly a copyright corpus and this use is not covered by fair use doctrine, so the spammers are also possibly in violation of Mr. Ludlum’s copyrights.
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