UPDATE: Be care of the new Google Shortener – lot’s of fake/spammy http://goo.gl urls are starting to show up. Most of them are related to free iPads so far.
It’s been a few weeks since I did a spam report, but figured I’d do one this morning. The AngelFire spam is pretty steady still, as well as the Blogspot spam – but both are easy to spot.
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- Russia (.ru) seems to be the top sources of spam over the past week or so. Viagra, pills, drugs are a hot commodity to peddle.
- Fake news sites such as CNBC22.com and CNBC22.info are very popular. Also Taiwan appears to get in on the act as in CNBC22.tk – I don’t believe that CNBC has affiliate sites, and if they do, I wouldn’t click them as it seems to be too dangerous at this point as most of these news places are phishing sites.
- The dot info domain as a whole, mostly nothing but spam domain if you ask me. I don’t know of many (if any) .info legit domains
- Anything that seems to be a Facebook “learn more about your friends”, See who is “following you” on Twitter, etc…etc… Most if not all of them are nothing more than another phishing scam.
Technically Speaking, if you need some viagra, best to go to your doctor to get a script for it. If you are looking for news, CNN.com is easy to type and remember. And if you want to know more about your friends on Twitter or Facebook, why not just strike up a conversation with them to learn more about them? I guarantee it will be a heck of a lot easier to do the above then to find yourself another victim of spam-phishing reality this week.
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