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German residents have been targeted by a flood of racist emails.

The emails, sent by computers infected with the Sober.G virus, contained racist messages and links to right-wing Web sites, according to German press reports.

Sober.G is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to email addresses harvested from each infected computer. First detected in May this year it has been most active in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, according to MessageLabs.

The email deluge started just after 2 a.m. on Thursday morning in Germany. The majority of emails came from a computer at the University of Rostock and have been traced to the IP address of one student, although there is no indication so far that any employee or student of Rostock University was involved.

This is thought to be the first time that right-wing extremists have used wide-scale spamming to reach their audience. The emails included stories about the alleged criminality of foreigners and their abuse of the German health and social welfare system, which has led to suggestions that the European elections may have been the trigger for the spam attack.

The German police are currently investigating the attack. According to the German news site Heise Online, a message from the worm author was found in a text file created by the Sober.G virus. This message was signed off by 'Odin' - a god of Nordic mythology. Right-wing groups in Germany have been known to refer to Nordic mythology in the past.

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via Facebook 12 June, 2004 20:01
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If the white race does not wake up then, yes it wiil be doomed.
Anti-free speech laws in Europe make it impossible to discuss it, so why not spam about it?

via Facebook 13 June, 2004 04:39
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UNFORTUNATLY THE EUROPEANS WHO
SHOULD BE HAVING A MINIMUM OF TWO
CHILDREN PER FAMILY,ARE NOT
REPLACING THEMSELVES. HOLIDAYS,
AND A CAR EACH HAVE BECOME THE
CRITERIOR MOTIVES. EVEN THE
ITALIANS ARE HAVING FAR FEWER THAN
BEFORE. WE FACE THE PROSPECT OF
BEING REPLACED BY AFRICANS AND
ASIANS.

via Facebook 15 June, 2004 04:23
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Minimum of 2....why?

The planet is getting close to population limit....so why encourage more children?

So the gentic base for white european will dissapear - or be enveloped by other genetic strands. What does that matter - it's all the same species in the end.

via Facebook 16 June, 2004 14:13
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"Karl Ramstrom" is actually Ward Kendall, author of /Hold Back This Day/. He is pretending to be a fan of his own book to promote it. His use of this forum to promote his novel thus amounts to commercial spam.

via Facebook 8 March, 2005 06:47
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Being concerned about the fate of Europeans (White People) in Germany is racist? Well yes, I guess it is. Europe needs more Muslim suicide bombers to kill those racist whites.

via Facebook 1 August, 2005 00:10
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via Facebook 11 November, 2005 19:08
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