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Christmas spam starts early this year
Posted on 03 November 2009.
It seems that retailers are not the only ones to have hurried up with getting advantage of Christmas as a magic, profit-enhancing word.
Spammers are know for their heightened activity during holidays. According to TrendLabs, this time they mean to exploit the gift-giving custom and the recent economic crisis to defraud you of your credit card information by peddling replicas of watches, jewelry and handbags at low, discounted prices.
Subject lines like: Better Early than Late, Quantities are low and Reminder are designed to generate a sense of urgency that (they hope!) will make you careless. If you click on the link, you will be taken to a bogus site that - let's admit it - looks pretty legit and rather tempting:
Of course, you know the drill - don't fall for it and enter any kind of information, no matter how good the offer seems. You should know better by now.
Spammers are know for their heightened activity during holidays. According to TrendLabs, this time they mean to exploit the gift-giving custom and the recent economic crisis to defraud you of your credit card information by peddling replicas of watches, jewelry and handbags at low, discounted prices.
Subject lines like: Better Early than Late, Quantities are low and Reminder are designed to generate a sense of urgency that (they hope!) will make you careless. If you click on the link, you will be taken to a bogus site that - let's admit it - looks pretty legit and rather tempting:
Of course, you know the drill - don't fall for it and enter any kind of information, no matter how good the offer seems. You should know better by now.
- Zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox extensions discovered
- Three charged with Comcast.net hijacking
- Cloud computing security benefits, risks and recommendations
- Poisoned Google search results
- World’s first wireless USB external hard drive
