Practically all the spam emails I've received over the past week have been fake CNN emails, and I think I've only had a couple offering handcrafted luxury timepieces or discounts on male healthcare products.

Why the sudden change in tactic? As I don't even subscribe to CNN's alerts, and being in the UK with a co.uk email address, it's unlikely that I would, these emails looked highly suspect from the off.

Beats the "disturbing and tasteless fake headline as email subject" trend, mind you.

Not everyone is as bright as you are DORK! FFS indeed. There's always some jack off who claims to know it all.

That's the first spam I've been caught out by.
Even though gmail marked it as spam I though the same twit who subscribed me to Skype had struck again.
At least I only clicked on the unsubscribe lnk - probably get more spam now.

Got a message yesterday on facebook that pointed to a location where I was asked to download an "updated version" flash. Thankfully I'm not stupid and therefore didnt download the updater file called "codecsetup". At least name the file right ffs LOL!

Not a problem if you use a decent browser or have half.. make that quarter of a brain and notice 20 copies of emails 'from cnn' which you never signed up to in the first place.
Yeah, big security risk this is...
If by now you haven't caught on to email spam and scams then you really should be put in a home without access to computers, and you are certainly not reading any security alerts, ever, because it's all over your head anyway.