Blog comment spam. Is it worth the effort?
My first article published on Kevin Townsend‘s ITSecurity.co.uk blog: Blog comment spam. Is it worth the effort? or go to this link: http://itsecurity.co.uk/2015/01/blog-comment-spam-worth-effort/
online pharma
“Ze Foreign Accent” spam returns
Remember the Spammer’s Compendium (where I have a spam method named after me: (UH!Mustaca!HTML))? There is an entry from 2003 called “Ze Foreign Accent“. Back then it was rather primitive, but now it comes in a much improved (if we can say that) form: The link on “Click here” goes to a Google Drive hosted site which was erased in the meanwhile. Fortunately, GMail detects it as spam as you can see in the picture.
“Your messages will be deleted soon” – Facebook spam
It seems that the most research on social engineering is done these days by spammers. Using the text “You haven’t been to Facebook for a few days, and a lot happened while you were away”, the spam message contains the trigger which will make many people click on the message: “Your messages will be deleted soon” Ohhhh, so, if you don’t click on “View messages” then the messages will be deleted?. This is a good one. To all those who really think that something like this is possible: Stay calm, nobody is ever going to delete your messages. And, Facebook is not sending you such messages anyway. It is just a spam that redirects you to an online pharmacy store.