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  • Malware Attached on IRS Notification

    The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) kicked off the tax season on January 4, 2011, and taxpayers from the US have until April 18 to file their tax refunds. During tax season, of course, spammers are once again on the look-out for targets that would fall for their tactics.
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  • ACH Leads to Fake Java Update

    Targeted spam runs are attacks destined for one specific organization or industry. Recently, TrendLabs received a large volume of targeted attacks from {BLOCKED}ts@nacha.
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  • Spammers Promote Buying Stocks

    TrendLabs received samples of stock spam, which have been dormant for about a year until now. The spammed message urges users to buy stocks since they won't supposedly lose their money.
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  • Christmas in February?

    February is one would call the Love Month; however, spammers are now beginning to send spam with a Christmas theme. Trend Micro received spam samples purportedly coming from 123Greetings.
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  • Fake FDIC Message Leads to Malware

    Spammers are out there again with their tricks. This time, TrendLabs found samples of spam purportedly coming from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
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  • Another Round of Valentine Spam and Fake Pharma

    Today, Valentines Day is celebrated all over the world. And with such a widely accepted event such as this, it is unsurprising that spammers are wasting no time in taking the opportunity to trick unsuspecting users into becoming victims of their malicious activities.
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  • Bogus Facebook Email Message Leads to Phishing Page

    There is no doubt about Facebook's popularity. In fact, spammers continue to use the social networking site in their malicious tactics.
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  • Want Some Super Bowl?

    Samples of spam messages using the Super Bowl were found to spread a malicious link. Super Bowl, the biggest event of the National Football League (NFL), is naturally a target of spammers, specifically as a social engineering technique to lure users.
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  • Commercial Spam for Valentine’s Day

    Social engineering is what brings about this new spam message as it arrives just on the first day of February, presenting prospective recipients an attractive offer for ordering flowers online in this time of the year. Upon clicking the link in the message body, however, recipients are redirected to a site that is no longer available.
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  • Adult Spam in Forum Spreading

    This latest spam sample comes with a link that tries to encourages the recipient to click the embedded link. Doing so would supposedly provide information about a girl who wants to get married and on what posters are saying about her in a forum.
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