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<DIV>Just sharing an issue we had this week with everyone else on the MailScanner forum.</DIV>
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<DIV>This week, I've been working with an organization that is running an email campaign that is bombarding us with undesirable content and I figured I'd share with the rest of you as it's likely some of your systems are also getting this "junk".</DIV>
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<DIV>If you browse to the web link below you will find a campaign concerning 'circumcision'. The concept they use is simple, you read the text and if you concur with the statement, you sign the petition.</DIV>
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<DIV>In the background, the website takes your contact information, extracts your email address and then sends an email to a mass distribution list using your email address as the sender. The email is part of an email campaign that is using an online company to send the email enmass.</DIV>
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<DIV>The email has no opt-out and if you reply to the email, your email is sent to the unwitting soul (person) who signed the online statement.</DIV>
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<DIV>The subject lines are always one of the two lines below:</DIV>
<DIV> Subject: It's time to end infant circumcision!</DIV>
<DIV> Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?It's_time_to_end_=E2=80=9Croutine=E2=80=9D_infant_circumcision!?=</DIV>
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<DIV>You can take a look at the alert that generates these messages here:<BR><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5922/t/6483/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2543"><FONT color=#b30000>http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5922/t/6483/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2543</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV>Just sharing this information in case you want to do something to protect your clients as well.</DIV>
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<DIV>thanks</DIV>
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