: Spam

[Judy Prince]

And now it's "Your User Name and Password".

Judy

On 3 April 2010 17:35, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject:      Re: : Spam
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> At 4/3/2010 04:59 PM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> >Equally true, there's little new under the sun -- the Nigerian Scam is
> >simply an electronic variant of the old Spanish Prisoner Con.
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> As is the "Help! My wallet's been stolen."  Assuming it's a fat
> wallet.  And both can certainly be called "phishing."
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> Joel
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