{"id":358,"date":"2003-04-29T12:52:38","date_gmt":"2003-04-29T17:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=358"},"modified":"2003-04-29T12:52:38","modified_gmt":"2003-04-29T17:52:38","slug":"say_it_aint_so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/29\/say_it_aint_so.html","title":{"rendered":"Say it ain’t so, Joe!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new FTC study on spam says that most spammers lie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Remember, you heard it here, first.<\/p>\n

The FTC’s study, False Claims in Spam, which analyzed 1,000 pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail gleaned from FTC databases and government officials’ in-boxes, found that 66 percent of spam contains some type of fraudulent claim.
\n[…] The FTC study found that nearly all spam pitching business opportunities contained some type of claim that appeared to be fraudulent, while half of all health-related spam was misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new FTC study on spam says that most spammers lie. Remember, you heard it here, first. 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