As a follow on to the student data thread - the following is text from a
spam message received today:-
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product or visit your website?
Our company has carefully collected an email database, which allows to
advertise your product or service to the audience of 1.7 million US college
& university students! This is the most comprehensive students email
database available on the Internet.
All addresses on the database belong to students (18-24 years old), are
verified and as a proof of their origin end with '.edu', which stands for
educational institutions.
The database will be delivered to you in a ZIP archive of a 34MB TXT file.
All addresses were collected in September, 2004.
The price we are asking is $370. To place an order please proceed to:
Mirror 1: http://www.nsshost.com/edu.php
Mirror 2: http://www.bbehost.com/edu.php
Sincerely,
Tom Theroux
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Whilst this states it relates to the USA it would seem there are also
interests in targetting students for other reasons.
Ian W
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