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No, seriously. This comes right from the “You can’t make this crap up” file.

Now some forensic computer scientists at the University of Alabama-Birmingham are on the trail. They are checking out where all these Ron Paul spams are coming from: Brazil, El Salvador, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, and Nigeria.

Pretty funny that the fellow who wants to have no foreign policy at all has such support overseas.

The UAB press release said in full — a Don Surber full, not a Glenn Greenwald “full”:

UAB Spam Team Spots First Presidential Campaign Spam

Anti-spam researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) noted a disturbing new trend following Sunday’s Republican Candidates Presidential debate. One of the candidates has a new spam campaign dedicated to proclaiming him victorious in the debate and extolling his virtues as the future president.

There is no reason to believe the current spam campaign is actually endorsed by Ron Paul or his official campaign engine, according to Gary Warner, UAB Director of Research in Computer Forensics.

Ron Paul is popular with the Internet and some of the recent Web polls that were taken down because of Ron Paul Spammers include:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/21257762/site/14081545/

http://constitutionallyright.com/2007/10/12/cnbc-forced-to-take-down-pol l-because-of-ron-paul-spammers/

The new messages have headlines such as:

Ron Paul Wins GOP Debate!
Ron Paul Eliminates the IRS!
Ron Paul Stops Iraq War!
Vote Ron Paul 2008!
Iraq Scam Exposed, Ron Paul
Government Wasteful Spending Eliminated By Ron Paul

Warner says, “We’ve seen many previous emails reported as spam from other campaigns or parties, but when we’ve investigated them, they all were sent from the legitimate parties.” The important distinction between the new emails and previous emails, Warner says, is the fraudulent nature of the message. Legitimate messages tell who they are from, and provide a means of “unsubscribing” from future messages from the same source.

Conspiracy theorists, neo-Nazis and now Nigerian spammers. My guess as to the response from Paulians? “His message is accepted far and wide” or “He has a big tent of supporters”.

More: Liberty Pundit, Ace.