Today I received an email which was a familiar scam sent from West Africa. I receive literally hundreds of them every day. What made this one different was that it carried a link to a malware site.
Any Windows user foolish enough to click the link and run the executable would get his machine infected [...]
Entries Tagged as 'spam'
Botnets meet “Nigerian” spam
February 28th, 2007 · 5 Comments
Child pornography hosted by Yahoo
January 14th, 2007 · 8 Comments
On an average day I come across 4 new child pornography sites that are hosted at Yahoo. Shocking? It was to me when it started, but it’s been going on for a long time. Finally, at the end of June 2006 I started keeping track of them in detail. Between July 1 and December 31, [...]
Tags: spam
CNN reports about online scams
June 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments
A recent CNN article described various online scams, including fake lotteries and other 419 scams:
As one scam-watch site pointed out, lottery companies do not organize “promotional” lotteries, they advertise. A free “promotional” lottery that you only hear about if you win would only promote the lottery to a handful of customers. That doesn’t make any [...]
Tags: Fraud
A strange type of spam
June 16th, 2006 · 3 Comments
On June 15 I received some unusual spam. It arrived from an IP address in Turkey (88.224.75.25) that is listed by SpamHaus.
Subject: Credit card processing courtiers
Hello,
Im Adam Aministers from credit card processing company. We can offer now good rates and bi-weekly payouts. If you are still looking for credit card processing, please contact me by [...]