Cool Viagra vs. Cialis Spam

August 25th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Spam Favorites | Leave a comment »

Spammers are always looking for ways to get their message past anti-spam filters, and HTML manipulations are part of their regular bag of tricks, but this one just looked so cool I wanted to share it with you. At first glance, it looks like the spammer simply wrote “Viagra vs. Cialis” vertically (that in itself [...]

“Video” Malware Adopts the CNN Daily Top 10 Brand

After distributing outlandish headlines for months, malware distributors have taken the next logical step and are starting to package them together in email newsletters, more specifically, pretending to be “CNN Daily Top 10″ headline email newsletters. Here is a sample email:

Each enticing headline in the message links to a malware site, not to CNN, [...]

More Pharma Spam with Microsoft Content

May 6th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Spam Favorites | 1 Comment »

You may recall that we wrote about spammers who used Microsoft hotmail content within the source of their messages, hidden from the reader (except for those techies who right-click & hit “view source”). Well, I spammers must have liked the results and wanted to take it a step further. The latest trick is to put [...]