News spam

(Before) – photo by TaylorMiles – used under license

Spam subject lines, masquerading as breaking news, that I have received so far:

Donald Trump missing, feared kidnapped
China Earthquake claims 1 million lives
Eiffel Tower damaged by massive earthquake

The last one would have been by favourite, but for the McAfee blog which lists a number of others including:

White House hit by lightning, catches fire

Which is quite comical.  Of course the spammers might have got more people to click and download their viruses if the email body text was consistent with the subject.  The email for the Paris headline says:

US Soldier throws boy off cliff, villagers enraged

Which sounds more like a crossword clue (There’s a challenge. Use however many letters you like.)

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