Thanksgiving means turkey and shopping, but several experts warn that e-mail spam could put a lot of turkeys in your inbox as spammers take advantage of the holiday season.
“It happens over the holidays, or anytime there is an expectation that people will be more interested in buying, such as Mother’s Day,” said Gerald Thain, a consumer law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies spam – unsolicited and unwanted e-mail.
(DoIT’s Brian Rust is also quoted.)