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January 30, 2008
Mortgage Spam Jumps in Response to Fed Rate Cut, Commtouch Reports 

Legitimate Email Traffic May Be Disrupted by Content-Based Email Filtering

Jan. 30  SUNNYVALE, Calif--Spam about mortgage refinancing jumped to 10% of all spam in the past week in conjunction with the recent interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve, according to research by Commtouch. 

The huge increase in mortgage spam may increase false positives and obstruct legitimate email messages and banking correspondence. 
  
 

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