Commtouch Labs has seen a new trend in personal enhancement spam. Where in the past, these messages have been directed at men with subjects like Let your ‘gun’ be steel and The more inches you have the more times your lady will hit the point, this new variation is directed at women whose men have [...]
Trying to log in to your Chinese Gmail or Yahoo! webmail? Check carefully…. over the past few days phishers have spread a broad attack trying to entice users to give up their credentials to a fake login page for Google and Yahoo-reminiscent addresses, with a .cn (China) domain. Examples include (and there are dozens of [...]
Scammers are always looking for new ways to hide their intentions, both from message recipients, as well as automated email filters. One new trick Commtouch has started to see recently is the use of calendar-update messages generated from legitimate sites, such as Google or Yahoo. Since these messages need to be generated manually, they only [...]
Here’s a cute one our Detection Center just sent over – a traditional 419 scam in the guise of a lottery prize, sent from a scammer pretending to be… none other than Yahoo/MSN. Haven’t they heard that the deal isn’t finalized yet?!
Pharmaceutical spammers typically include a URL in their emails since they want to direct recipients to visit their site and purchase their (usually counterfeit) viagra, cialis, etc. However URLs are pretty straightforward to block in many anti-spam solutions, so spammers are always looking for new ways to hide their URLs. A [...]
