Spiritual Spam - God-Bother

Increasingly users are getting religious spam email in addition to the typical unwanted email viagra pitches.

"We are seeing more and more of it. It appears to be on the rise," according to Martin Lee of MessageLabs (a maker of spam filter software).

"The God-bothers are using the techniques of the 21st century. It's Spiritual Spam and almost all of it is Christian"

Most of the Christ spammers' messages are in English - and seem to originate from the U.S. - although sometimes the emails are relayed through China.

In contrast to virtually all other spam - the motive does not appear to be for money. Many of the spammers actually look to be after saving souls.

A quote from one recent message: "Eternity is a really long time. If you or someone close to you has not accepted God, please do so today."

If praying doesn't help your spam problem - try one of several antispam programs like SpamButcher.

SpamButcher can be used as an Outlook anti-spam tool or with most other popular email clients.

By using fuzzy logic technology SpamButcher is more effective at blocking spam than competing products.

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