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	from Mary Landesman Scammers are increasingly turning to new tricks in an effort to bypass security measures and trick users into self-inflicting harm. This week, an email masquerading as a security patch that really pointed to a Trojan, plus a desperate act by pump and dump stock scammers to get their miscreant mail past spam filters.
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