Flash in the Spam

July 28th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Spam Favorites | Leave a comment »

OK the title is a lousy play on words, but the new spam tactic with hyperlinks to Flash files is actually pretty neat.  You most likely know by now that spammers will look for any way to bypass content-based anti-spam filters. And they tried a new trick today: sending spam messages whose hyperlink call to [...]

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 [...]