Its called social engineering.

Made famous by ring of people surrounding the Kevin
Poulsen, Kevin Mitnik
crowd.

aka con artists
many criminals are also experts at this kind of
manipulation.
without a foundation of morality, an emotional agent
may be suspected of this
type of behavior.



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> There are 3 messages in this issue.
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> Topics in this digest:
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> 1. Re: emotional spam (was This personals site
> is actually...)
> From: Anirudha Joshi
> <anirudhaidc@...>
> 2. RE: emotional spam (was This personals site
> is actually...)
> From: "suresh" <suresh.jv@...>
> 3. RE: emotional spam (was This personals site
> is actually...)
> From: Amrut <amrutpujari@...>
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:14:02 +0530
> From: Anirudha Joshi <anirudhaidc@...>
> Subject: Re: emotional spam (was This personals site
> is actually...)
>
> I thought that it was a thoughtful, potentially
> emotional spam to this
> list that has been dormant for a while. I have seen
> other well-written
> spams that can evoke an emotional response. Coming
> to think of it,
> truly emotion-evoking spams may eventually work -
> given the spammers
> intentions of course. Have you come across such
> spams too?
>
> Anirudha
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:52:30 +0530
> From: "suresh" <suresh.jv@...>
> Subject: RE: emotional spam (was This personals site
> is actually...)
>
> > truly emotion-evoking spams
> > may eventually work - given the spammers
> intentions of
> > course. Have you come across such spams too?
> >
> > Anirudha
> >
>
>
> Why do you think the nigerian scam mail worked for
> so long!
>
> Suresh.
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:46:28 -0800 (PST)
> From: Amrut <amrutpujari@...>
> Subject: RE: emotional spam (was This personals site
> is actually...)
>
> good point
>
>
> --- suresh <suresh.jv@...> wrote:
>
> > > truly emotion-evoking spams
> > > may eventually work - given the spammers
> > intentions of
> > > course. Have you come across such spams too?
> > >
> > > Anirudha
> > >
> >
> >
> > Why do you think the nigerian scam mail worked for
> > so long!
> >
> > Suresh.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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