Yeeesss, the Spam/Trash folder is no longer so boring! Finally, the spammers are now using all the features of the email clients and have made the subjects to look much nicer. Do you know how they do that? They add UTF8 characters in the subject and then they encode the entire string using Quoted-Printable encoding: […]
As a premiere, I received the first Nigerian Scam on XING. It is quite common to receive such requests on LinkedIn, but for me it is the first time on XING. This is the text: Hello Sorin Mustaca, I have partners who I front for to assist source for a foreign partner who could be […]
After many years, the penny stock spam is back. Hello, info! <name> needs your attention. This is the only stock you need to buy today. Keep on reading to find out why.. <name>(ticker: <tick>) is a mobile games developer that has built some of the most popular games on the planet. The games have been […]
If you have a Google account you must have two-factor authentication enabled in order to prevent anyone to use your account by just having your username and password. If you don’t know how to do that, check my free eBook here. 2FA requires something that you know (username and password) and something that you have (smartphone) […]
From time to time I am wondering if these guys (I am thinking at eBay, PayPal, Amazon, some banks) are actually trying to help phishers to do their “jobs”. The email you seen in the screenshot is a 100% authentic email from eBay Germany. I am being asked, you guessed right, to “protect my eBay […]
And I mean really colorful, as in it has signs and colors. Like the one in the featured image. If you look in their source, they look like this: Subject: =?utf-8?b?8J+QlfCfkIhZb3UgY2FuIHNhdmUgb24gcGV0IGZvb2Qg8J+QlfCfkIg=?= As it can be seen on this page, there are all possible symbols described: http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/codepage-utf8.php All it has to do is to force […]
My Junk folder from ITSecurityNews.info is currently flooded with “Delivery Status Notification” from various servers, all with the same content. Various servers, same content, in Russian: The email goes indeed from a non existent email address of my domain to some server that refuses it for various reasons. What can you do? Block […]
I start this post with the Conclusion Don’t fall for these scams! You will never get money or vouchers like this. Details I see a lot of these messages in my Spam folder: PayPal payment received Report Spam Hi, Your account has been credited with $563.50 Click Here to Claim […]
The email below (in German) is from PayPal. It is not a phishing email or a spam email pointing to some online pharmacy. I assure you of this. I have verified the DKIM and SPF information in the headers, checked all headers of any trace of alteration and of any trace of foreign IP address […]
When you see such an email, you don’t think that it is a phishing… After all, why would anyone steal your LinkedIn credentials, right? Nobody would request a ransom to give your credentials back, nobody would steal your email & password and try to reuse them on other websites. You have, after all, read my […]
