Have you ever wondered what the sender of this seemingly harmless-looking email want to achieve?
Have a look at the email:
The message runs as follows:
新しいメールアドレスをお知らせします
新しいメールアドレス：email-add@yahoo.co.jpHello Dear.
My name is Mrs.Nawa Tomar. I am a dying woman who has decided to donate what I have to you and the charity organization around your community. and I was diagnosed for cancer for about 2 years ago.I decided to WILL/donate the sum of $5.7m to you.
Best Regards,
From Mrs.Nawa Tomar
- Nawa Tomar
It looks pretty harmless, isn’t it?
Since it does not even contain a web link to a site or to a product sales page, what’s the purpose of this email?
Sure it was not done by people who are just passing their time away.
If your suspicion is that this is the work of Search Engine Marketing people trying to manipulate the display of context-sensitive ads in webmails, then you’re probably right. See that message block in Japanese characters on top of the message box? And see the ads on the right panel? Also, the text ads on top of the message header?
And if your suspicion is true, don’t you think this practice should be stopped? The practice is giving search engine marketing a very bad name, don’t you think?
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