Ron Paul Zombies and Spam Zombies Have Shared Lineage

In honor of the little spatter of angry Ron Paul boosterism triggered by yesterday's post, here's a press release from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with the results of some anti-spam research they aimed at Paul's online mob.

One of the candidates has a new spam campaign dedicated to proclaiming him victorious in the debate and extolling his virtues as the future president.

There is no reason to believe the current spam campaign is actually endorsed by Ron Paul or his official campaign engine, according to Gary Warner, UAB Director of Research in Computer Forensics,

Ron Paul is popular with the Internet and some of the recent Web polls that were taken down because of Ron Paul Spammers include:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/21257762/site/14081545/

http://constitutionallyright.com/2007/10/12/cnbc-forced-to-take-down-pol l-because-of-ron-paul-spammers/

The UAB researchers found that pro-Paul e-mails claiming to be from American voters actually hailed from further afield, sometimes from the land of the 419 scammer.

In the messages reviewed at UAB, emails were received from Brazil, El Salvador, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, and Nigeria already this morning.  In each case it was clear that the computer sending the message did not belong to the person who was listed in the "From" address.  Such as a Houston resident, whose email was sent from a computer in Italy, or a Silicon Valley computer worker, whose email was sent from Korea.

Elsewhere: Don Surber, Ace