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Friday, April 18, 2003

Arab Americans targets of "email spoofing"

A growing number of Arab Americans and people with pro-Arab or Palestinian views are being targeted with impunity according to this Wall Street Journal story (subscription required):

Arab-American activist Nawar Shora checked his e-mail one day and found scores of angry messages asking why he hated Americans and Jews. The messages were responding to e-mails marked as coming from him.

Only one big problem: Mr. Shora never sent the hate mail.

Mr. Shora, a legal adviser to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, was the victim of a form of harassment in which fake e-mail is sent using real addresses.

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