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Don’t Give Spammers a Reason to Be Thankful

Thanksgiving kicks off the holiday season in the United States, the top spam-sending country in the world. The holiday season ushers sales and big discounts for users. Unfortunately, however, this also means that spammers will be rushing to offer consumers bogus promos and discounts. Seems even cybercriminals have something to be thankful for, too.

Trend Micro analysts received Thanksgiving-related spam samples. The spammed messages offered users who log in to their sites US$500 worth of “grocery vouchers.” The sites were hosted on different domains that, upon further analysis, have already been blacklisted though they have only recently been created.

Users who are tricked into clicking any of the URLs in the spammed messages landed on sites where they are asked to give out personal information like email addresses, complete names, addresses, and phone numbers, which, as you may already know, may be used for other malicious activities later on or sold in underground forums.

Though it is true that legitimate companies do promote discounts and other special offers online, not everyone who sends promotional offers has good intentions. In fact, most of them don’t. Going into business is,

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  • Christmas Greetings from Spammers (December 25, 2009)

    Spammers are clearly putting the holidays to good use, as they have made Christmas just another reason to spread malware. Trend Micro threat analysts recently received a spammed message purporting to come from 123greetings.com, a legitimate site that users can access

  • Spammers Spoof the Apple Store (March 25, 2010)

    Cybercriminals—spammers, to be specific—typically hide their malicious intent behind well-known company names. Just recently, TrendLabs engineers encountered a spammed message claiming to be from the Apple Store.The email message encouraged

  • Spammers Target Antivirus Companies (March 1, 2010)

    A new wave of spammed messages posing as mail service notifications targeted antivirus companies, including Trend Micro. These messages ask the receivers to update their mailbox settings by opening and executing the attachment.

  • Spammers Fake Responses from Google Job Applications (February 3, 2010)

    A new spam campaign gives the phrase “too good to be true” a whole new spin: spammed messages purporting to come from Google in response to job applications. While most spammed messages take advantage of a specific special occasion,

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