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Spammers' Top 10


FrontBridge Technologies has identified the top 10 deceptive E-mail subject lines used by spammers to lure recipients into opening the messages.



Anti-spam vendor FrontBridge Technologies Inc. has identified the top 10 deceptive E-mail subject lines used by spammers to lure recipients into opening their messages. FrontBridge's list was culled from 1,200 enterprise E-mail domains the company filters and analyzes regularly, and the vendor expects more E-mail containing such deceptive subject lines to appear in in-boxes. It reports that deceptive spam tactics grew more than 50% in the first six months of the year.

The list reads:

  • RE: Information you asked for
  • hey
  • Check this out!
  • Is this your email?
  • Please resend the email
  • RE: Your order
  • Past due account
  • Please verify your information
  • Version update
  • RE: 4th of July


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