Spyware101.com: The assassination of former Pakistan president Benazir Bhutto has

Apparently spammers are providing links to sites that claim to offer a
video of the killing but instead link to malicious sites that infect
the user's PC with malware.

This harks back to a similar attack following the execution of Saddam
Hussein, and then, as now, the number of things wrong with this
scenario is simply staggering.

The fact that others are profiting from these events is despicable,
and the fact that others are apparently keen to 'view' the murder is
even more so.

But regardless of the content, what is even more unbelievable is the
simple fact that people are still reacting to spam emails.

We're not sure we can make this any clearer: if you receive an
unsolicited email from an unknown source it is spam, and if it's spam
then delete it. It really is that simple.

Strangers don't go out of their way to email random people and hand
out hot stock tips, or illegal medication or porn out of the goodness
of their heart.

They're doing it to make money from you. If you're lucky they're just
unscrupulous advertisers looking for website traffic, but the chances
are they're after a lot more.

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