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Arsenal Lotto scam spammed out via PowerPoint file

Jan

2013

The scammers must be getting more and more desperate to get their claws on our money.Their criminal business model is messed up somewhat by anti-spam filters blocking their fraudulent messages from reaching potential victims.What’s a bad guy to do?Well, they could do what this scammer has done – wrap their scam email up into a […]

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Spammers disguise malware as Vodafone MMS email

Nov

2012

The email includes original links to Vodafone websites, which makes it a lot less suspicious for spam filters and explains why so many users have initially received the email.The given telephone numbers in those mails vary, but the gist always remains the same: The recipient is asked to open the attached file, which is said […]

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Sandy Storms Inboxes

Oct

2012

Hurricane Sandy, one of the most devastating Superstorms in decades, hit the US East coast. Causing the loss of lives and businesses and leaving countless people without electricity, Sandy has now added spam to its list of misery. We are observing spam messages related to the hurricane flowing into Symantec Probe Networks. The top word […]

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