War-related spam accounted for nearly as tenth of all
spam reviewed by e-mail filter company SurfControl by the end of
March, compared with the handful of war spam it collected at the
beginning of the month.
Of the war-related spam, the most frequent in March were e-mails
peddling "American Car Flags to Support Our Troops","Take 4 History
Books for $1 Each", and "Defenders of Freedom US Coins",
SurfControl said.
Other spam advertised T-shirts, lapel pins, water filtration
systems and Israeli gas masks.
The different types of war-related spam are coming from
different sources, the e-mail filtering company added, noting that
there were 216 variations on the gas mask spam counted in
March.
The company continued to see the same level of war-related spam
in the beginning of April, but the focus has changed from
items such as gas masks to T-shirts.
SurfControl reviews 40,000 to 50,000 spam messages a month.
Previously, Nigerian business "offers" and mortgage rates were the
among the top subjects of spam.