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Spam-Virus Marriage Seen As Major 2004 Internet Threat: Page 3 of 3

Other trends started this year and expected to increase in 2004 include the use of e-mail to trick people into going to what they think is a legitimate vendor's web site and provide confidential information, such as social security or credit card numbers, MessageLabs said. The latest incident this year involved an e-mail that tried to dupe PayPal customers.