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| Reporter Rachel Buchman has resigned from her job
at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia. |
A Philadelphia radio reporter has quit her job after leaving an
angry voicemail with an online lobbying group she believed were
spamming her.
27-year-old Rachel Buchman, a freelance reporter for WHYY-FM in
Philadelphia, said she became increasingly incensed by what she
believed to be unsolicited junk emails from conservative
organisation laptoplobbyist.com.
Buchman gave her work number at WHYY-FM in the voicemail
message, which led laptoplobbyist.com to learn that she was a radio
reporter there.
Buchman's voicemail message has been published on
laptoplobbyist.com's website and says:
"Hi, my name is Rachel, and my telephone number is [number].
I wanted to tell you that you're evil, horrible people. You're
awful people. You represent horrible ideas. God hates you and he
wants to kill your children. You should all burn in hell.
Bye."
Buchman apologised for what she said in the voicemail, and has
since left her job at the Philadelphia National Public Radio
affiliate.
"Spam rage is becoming an increasing problem, as more and more
people get hot under the collar because of the tidalwave of spam
arriving in their inboxes," said Graham Cluley, senior
technology consultant for Sophos. "Everybody should keep their
cool, and follow best
practice to avoid their email address falling into the hands of
spammers and run good anti-spam software
to protect their computers."
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.