You may not like scammers, but you have to give them one thing: they're a determined lot.
Of course, they would keep trying again and again. Look at this phishing email that Trend Micro Advanced Threats Analyst Joey Costoya found recently:
If this looks just a bit familiar, well, it should. It's the usual 419 Scam, just adapted to current events.
With the Beijing Olympics now in full swing, you can bet that all the usual suspects will be trying hard to part ...
Olympic tickets, anyone? They are available on the Internet of course, but users beware: the bad guys are still working hard to steal from online users as the 2008 Beijing Olympics approaches.
Trend Micro Senior Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson discovered a fake Beijing Olympics Web site supposedly selling tickets. The Los Angeles Times reports that Olympics officials have already asked federal courts to shut down certain Web sites that pose as sellers of tickets but are actually stealing credit card ...
Sweeet!! I just won USD 500,000.00!!
But wait! Before I could claim my prize, first I must email 6 (six!!) personally identifiable information to my agent Mr. Chang Lazarus.
Nah.. I think I'll pass. I would rather not give such information to someone I have never met before.
This looks like another variation of the notorious 419 scams we've come to hate over the years.
These Beijing lotto notification letters have been floating around since late last year, as earlier reported in this blog. ...
Striking email subjects get the job done. Well, given another spamming operation that uses popular personalities and events, that seems to be the case. Using a variety of subject-body combinations (a lot of which are totally unrelated to each other!), these spammed messages again appeal to the curious mind, offering a link in the email body that would seem to provide more details.
TrendLabs' Advanced Threats Researcher Joey Costoya says these messages lead users to an R.HTML Web page that also ...
While China is bracing for the 2008 Summer Olympics that it will be hosting in the capital of Beijing from August 8 to August 24, 2008, malware authors are now also busy mounting attacks that play on this quadrennial sporting event.
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