Posts Tagged ‘spam’
Monday, July 11th, 2011
While spam volumes may be down, the Phishing fraud’s continue in high volume with Craigslist.org users being highly favored targets.
Look for these spam emails to trap unsuspecting users:
Subject: Account Update Notice
From: ”craigslist” <help@craigslist.org>
While they spoof “help@craigslist.org” as the sending address, most that we’ve reviewed have come from various hijacked Earthlink accouts:
from elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.70])
from elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.67])
Here’s a complete copy of one of these “Account Update Notice” frauds:
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Tags: craigslist, fraud, phishing, spam, spoofing
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Thursday, June 30th, 2011
More spam claiming to be from Wells Fargo headed toward mailboxes as:
Subject: Wells Fargo Online Fraud Prevention.
From: “Wells Fargo Online”<wellsfargo@wellsconnect.wellsfargo.com>
When in reality the sending address is spoofed and the email is actually originating from Yahoo’s mail servers:
nm28-vm1.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com ([98.139.52.247])
As is common for such Phishing frauds, the email warns you
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Tags: fraud, phishing, scam, spam, spoofing
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Tumblr’s site (http://www.tumblr.com/about) says:
Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything.
And apparently that means the sharing of copious amounts of unregulated spam email as well.
More specifically, we’re still seeing an ongoing campaign of bogus “work at home” scams perpetrated by fake sending links to bogus “news” articles used to ensnare the more gullible of Internet participants.
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Tags: fraud, scam, spam
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Phishing fraud involving the various shipping companies continues its upswing, and a newer version of FedEx fraud is looking to steal legitimate user’s account credentials.
Emails typically arrive:
Subject: Important Technical Service Message (CODE:90738-00)
From: “FedEx Technical Support”<update@online-update.com>
The are not sent from any legitimate Federal Express server, but instead are sent through hijacked user accounts, the latest copy reviewed came to us through Verizon’s servers:
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Tags: 419 scams, fraud, phishing, scam, spam, spoofing
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
There’s a renewed effort from spammers trying to hijack legitimate Craigslist.org accounts.
One version currently in distribution arrives:
Subject: flagged & removed: 36984099
From: “Craigslist” <no-reply@craigsIst.org>
To further add the appearance of legitimacy and to help evade spam filtering systems the number at the end of the subject line is randomized.
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Tags: fraud, phishing, scam, spam, spoofing
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Friday, May 27th, 2011
Were seeing a fair amount of bogus Apple Store Order Notification spam emails that are sufficiently confusing to end users that they are frequently resending these to themselves after our filtering initially blocks them.
The emails present themselves as:
Subject: ID:921-818692 Apple Store Order Notification
From: “Apple Store” <Store@apple.com>
The “Order ID Number” for each spam can be random, which helps these spam emails to appear legitimate and also to help evade many spam filters.
The sending address is spoofed, and the emails themselves are quite simple:
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Tags: email, spam, spoofing
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
The results from OnlyMyEmail’s fourth participation in the Virus Bulletin VBSpam Challenge have been released.
For the fourth time in a row, OnlyMyEmail’s MX-Defender stopped more spam than any of the other 19 competitors, missing only 2 spam messages out of 72,008 for a record spam filtering capture rate of 99.9972%. This phenomenal capture rate, combined with zero false-positives, earned OnlyMyEmail’s MX-Defender the highest score ever awarded since the Virus Bulletin Spam Challenge began testing two years ago.
View the complete VBSpam Competition Results PDF .
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Tags: email, spam
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Monday, May 16th, 2011
A new version of an old virus fraud is circulating with a spoofed Microsoft address:
Subject: Critical security patch released!
From: Microsoft Corp. <windowsupdate@microsoft.com>
What’s clever and also amusing about this is it pretends to address a recent Microsoft update that addresses a different kind of spoofing:
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Tags: fraud, phishing, spam, spoofing, virus
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Friday, May 13th, 2011
You have to give spammers some credit for creativity, especially when they can manage to get strangers to pay for free software.
In-boxes are seeing more such spam for exactly this type of pitch:
Subject: Action Required : Download New Acrobat PDF Reader For Your Windows
From: Adobe Systems Incorporated <direct@adobesysterms.com>
Here’s a copy of the bogus email:
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Tags: fraud, scam, spam, spoofing
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
We see so much spam, it actually gets rather boring after awhile. That’s why we sincerely appreciate spam that’s unusual or especially clever.
This spoofed Ebay Phishing Fraud email certainly fits the bill of interesting and very effective spam:
Subject: Message from eBay Member Regarding Item #
From: eBay <aw-notice@eby.com>
In the actual spam email, the item number is usually from an actual Ebay auction and the question certainly sounds plausible. We’ve seen many variations, but here’s a common example:
Hi , i`m from London and i want to ask you the buy it now price with delivery included ? Do you accept paypal ? Thanks!
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Tags: Ebay, fraud, phishing, scam, spam, spoofing
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