Fake Phishing Webmail Targets Chinese Users

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 [...]

419 scams hidden in Google and Yahoo calendar messages

March 10th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Data & Research, Email Security | 1 Comment »

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 [...]

Fraudsters Already Working on Microsoft/Yahoo Acquisition

February 10th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Miscellaneous | Leave a comment »

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?!

Spammers Cloak Site-links in Yahoo Search Results URLS

January 31st, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Data & Research, Spam Favorites | 2 Comments »

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 [...]