'Spiritual Spam' coming to your inbox

[Jimbob1989]

Link (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041209/80/f88ha.html)

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LONDON (Reuters) - Internet users praying for salvation from junk mail face a new torment -- "Spiritual Spam."


Along with the flood of messages offering everything from mortgages to miracle cures, they are now being asked to repent and pray.


"We are seeing more and more of it. It appears to be on the rise," said Martin Lee of e-mail security company MessageLabs.


"The God-botherers are using the techniques of the 21st century. It's Spiritual Spam and almost all of it is Christian," he told Reuters.


The prayers appear mostly to originate from native English speakers in the United States.

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Jimbob

[Primrose]

Email of that sort from friends and relative is normal for this time of the year.

BUT...

I think you will find a more accurate reason for that Spam is not to save your soul..or from people trying to do it..but rather the usual fake emails looking to add you to the list.


An e-mail security company has reported an uptick in evangelical missives crusading across the Internet.

While religious spam makes up less than 2 percent of the trillions of junk e-mail messages sent each day, its numbers have grown in recent weeks, according to MessageLabs, a New York anti-spam company.

Not all are Gospel truth.

The messages, mostly aimed at Christians, are sometimes ruses for collecting e-mail addresses to flood with pitches for herbal supplements and other goods hawked online.

The senders enlist many tricks used by traditional spammers, such as falsifying reply addresses and routing the messages through unprotected computers. Clicking on links promising free Bibles may do nothing more than confirm a valid e-mail address.