For the past several days, one of the top spam messages was "CNN Alerts: My Custom Alert", which attempted to trick e-mail readers into clicking on a site that would infect their computers by forging a CNN e-mail. Warner was the first to detect the scam last week using UAB Spam Data Mine, which collects millions of e-mail messages used to provide investigators with spam intelligence and determine new attack methods. In the past week, the CNN scam represented 14 percent of all the spam Data Mine collected.
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