Swine flu begets spam

How appropriate. The swine flu hysteria is generating new email spam.  If Monty Python’s Flying Circus was still in business, they’d put together a wonderful skit about this. (Spaaaaam, oh wonderful Spam!)

Cisco IronPort reports that messages about swine flu now make up 4% of global spam messages.

Here are some of the subject lines you will be seeing in your inboxes soon:

• Swine flu worldwide
• Swine flu in the USA
• Swine flu fears
• First US swine flu victims
• Swine flu in Hollywood
• Salma Hayek caught swine flu
• Madonna caught swine flu

Those last two subject lines are particularly devastating to anyone who is a fan of bad 1990s comedies co-starring Matthew Perry or mediocre 1980s pop music.