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Today's spam message which I picked up while combing through the spam folders for false positives is one which advertises a cheap source of computer software:

There is no cheaper source of original and perfectly working software.

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-Buy, Download and Install right now!
-English, Deutsch, French, Italy, Spanish Version

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All popular software for PC and MAC!

The Financial Crisis? Save Money!
We will send you a special code and you will receive a discount of up to 90% on all our softwares!

Save on your software purchasing programs at absolutely low prices. Huge selection of programs! All European languages versions of programs and applications! No trial or demo versions! Original soft only!

Purchasing software you can be sure you get perfectly working software, in case you are not satisfied, we offer money refund. Quick response and advice on how to install your software are guaranteed.

For what it's worth I did check out their site with NoScript safely turned on and cookies disabled and their site looks pretty swish, but unlike a bricks and mortar business what a website looks like tells you little about it's integrity. The fact they only made a few spelling mistakes on this message impressed me though!

Anyway onto their claim: I already know several "cheaper source[s]" for original, high quality and perfectly working computer software, and I reckon they're even cheaper still! the FreeBSD Ports System, NetBSD's pkgsrc, Arch Linux's AUR, Debian apt-get, Mac OS X and Darwin's MacPorts and Fink…

Couldn't help it, why just talk about spam when you can squeeze in some advocacy too while you're at it?