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Truly Evil, Scary Spam

Yikes. I just received a spam message with my own name and address in the From line. That's nothing new (though I remember freaking out the first time I saw that trick a few years ago, writing a hysterical email to my ISP saying my identity had been hijacked by spammers. Ah, the innocence of youth). But I've never seen this before: I deleted the message without openning it, as per usual, and that action automatically fired up my browser to this site (WARNING: OPEN AT YOUR OWN RISK!), promoting "Get Paid to Download FREE SOFTWARE!" (yeah, right, more like "Infect Your Hard Drive Forever for Downloading FREE SOFTWARE!") and some stupid sweepstakes promising cars and cruise vacations as prizes. The site also has the most retarded looking URL I've ever seen:

http://%38%31%39%30%30%2e%70%6c%75%67%75%73%69%6e%34%63%61%73%68%2e%63%6f%6d/

Anyone have any idea about this new scam?

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