Adding to the ever-increasing wave of post-election spam runs, we have recently received reports of yet more U.S. election-related threats. This time, spam messages promoting the (bogus) Canadian pharmacy are sent with sensational, and somewhat offensive, news about Barack Obama and John McCain as message subjects.
Here are a couple of email sample screenshots:

Figure 1.The sensationalized [...]

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