> And hey, it's also not surprising a bunch of email sent to powerful figures would have scumbags trying to infect their PC with malware in the process. I doub

> And hey, it's also not surprising a bunch of email sent to powerful figures would have scumbags trying to infect their PC with malware in the process. I doubt it was consciously sent to specific powerful figures. "Invoice attached" spam is just shotgunned to the world. > If Obama had a public email, a large percentage of that would be either infected by something or trying to steal credentials via phishing. It would, not because he's Obama but because it's email. I see a lot of this in my spam folder, and I'm not important at all, I'm just a reachable address.