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.
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 […]
Twelve years ago the IT security world was fighting against an unprecedented amount of spam emails. Spam is not and never was just a nuisance; it is a big problem because it slows down the good emails and takes up resources. Together with Virus Bulletin and some antispam researchers from various companies, a list called […]
John Graham Cumming is maintaining his Spammer’s Compendium and he is giving names to spam techniques. I reported some time ago one technique used in PayPal phishing emails and he created a method: Cross your fingers and click (UH!Mustaca!HTML) What: Making what looks like a valid link to PayPal turn into a link to a […]
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