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Get 4 FREE Disneyland Tickets (Merry Christmas) – Facebook Scam

17

Dec

2012

Scam Message:Get 4 FREE Disneyland Tickets (Merry Christmas)Scam Type: Survey Scam / Bogus OfferTrending: December 2012Why it’s a Scam:Clicking the wall post link takes you to the following page:Step 1 requires you to share a message to your Facebook profile. This is how the scam is spreading so quickly on Facebook. Think before you click, so […]

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You Have Received a Christmas Card

09

Nov

2012

It is more than a month until Christmas, but spammers are all set to spam the vacation season. We have observed Christmas related spam messages flowing into the Symantec Probe Network.For greeting card spam, spammers used a legitimate look and feel in the email with headers (Subject & From) and flash animations that included a […]

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Spam with .gov URLs

20

Oct

2012

Symantec is observing an increase in spam messages containing .gov URLs. A screenshot of a sample message is below: Traditionally, .gov URLs have been restricted to government entities. This brings up the question of how spammers are using .gov URLs in spam messages.The answer is on this webpage: 1.USA.gov is the result of a collaboration between […]

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