You’ve Received a Trojan Horse
It seems that the “family member” spam that I’d talked about a couple days ago was a malware attempt, as well as (probably) a probe to confirm e-mail addresses.
Archive of posts filed under the Spam and Malware category.
E-mail spam (including Trojan and virus messages), instant-message spam (“spim”), blog-comment spam, postal “bulk business mail,” and any other kind of unwanted, underhanded, and/or intrusive advertising. Also covers viruses, worms, and other malware.
“The United States National Medical Association”
More spam today, with a very similar modus operandi as yesterday’s bogus greeting card message. If you want to see the message itself, you can find a two-year-old copy here, word for word. The only difference is that my copy actually linked to a different .COM site with a nonsense name, though the visible text …
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“You’ve received a postcard from a family member!” Yeah, right!
What I actually received was the message below, with the above-quoted subject line. It smelled fishy. I’ve gotten these greeting-card messages before, but they’ve always included the name of the person sending the message. If the site didn’t have the person’s name, then how would it know that it was a family member? And what’s …
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Amusing Spam
The latest roundup of accidentally-humorous spam messages. There’s one here with the subject line of “Aniston Likes the Sound of Singing Inmates”. If “Aniston” is the name of the spammer, he (?) had better like it a lot, because this stuff is good for a long stay behind bars. Maybe he can start a chorus… …
Spam, spam, spam, spammity spam, spam, spam…
Sometimes, on a slow day, I look at the spam that I get. Most of it is boring… the same-old same-old. “Best repl1ca w4tches!”, “cheap oem soft shipping //orldwide”, “Viagre Ciali Xanas Valiun have special discount, express ship to all countries”, “Don’t be the ‘little guy’ in the club”. Various phishing messages that wouldn’t fool …
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“Bigger thing you have – nicer girl like it”
Where do these spammers come from, outer Mongolia? Wherever it is, they certainly don’t speak English there. I got this one today, with the above subject line: Got a little hitch in your sex life, we can put it in the helve easily! Our remedy will make you really indefatigable lover in a wink of …
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“Man described as a top spammer arrested”
Internet users rejoice: one of the world’s top spammers has been indicted! Only another ten billion to go. No, there aren’t ten billion spammers at present, despite the evidence of your in-box. From what I’ve heard, there are only about 200 large spam operations at any one time. But that makes little difference when, like …
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“Need drug to bad deal must have suppository?”
Some of the spam messages that I get have completely (and unintentionally) hilarious subject lines, like the above. It almost makes sense.
First Blog-Comment Spam
I’ve heard all about blog-comment spam, and I’ve even stumbled over a little of it here and there around the ‘net. I’d wondered how long it would be before the Geek Drivel blog attracted it’s first one. No need to wonder any further: it showed up a few minutes ago, a credit-card spam, and was …
Skype “Spim” Entry Most Popular
Apparently I hit a chord with my Skype Spim entry. It has had more hits than any other entry, most of them from Google searches. I tried entering one of the searches into Google myself, and sure enough, that blog entry was the first hit on the list. Apparently there were only two pages that …