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: packages could not handle the onslaught “Image spam has reduced because security companies started dealing with this in two ways. One, they used optical character recognition technique to extend text and ran anti-spam technology. They have also started observing patterns in headers of the spam to indicate whether the mail was spam or not,” explains Prabhat Singh.
Last month saw spammers using holidays and high-profile events as the bait to lure victims. Some of the prominent ones on security firms’ radars are:
Valentine’s spam: Romantics who had not bought gifts for their loved ones till February beginning were lured with links, which when clicked on flashed message “We’re sorry. The offer is not available in your area.” The message then gets redirected to another phishing site. Spammers had even localised their content, with users in India being redirected to a friends networking site while those in Europe and some parts of Asia were redirected to a dating site and in North America to a bonus offer site
IRS spam: Honest US citizens should be wary this tax season with a new IRS phishing currently in circulation. The official looking message which appears to be from IRS and seems to bear the logo of the US treasury department explains that a tax refund is due to the recipient. It then encourages users to click on a URL to get their refund online and asks for users’ personal information, which can be used by spammers. Other type of new spam campaigns include vitamins promising to improve your genetics; Russian pornographic services requiring the user to SMS them to continue being spammed with the images (and pay a hefty fee in the process) and cheap fast visas for European countries like Poland....
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