A few days ago, TrendLabsSM engineers received spam containing salad words (see Figure 1) along with a .ZIP file attachment (see Figure 2). This mixture of random words can be seen in the subject header and in the spam body. This was purposely done by spammers to bypass anti-spam filters that users may already be [...]
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.RTF File Conceals Spam
Spammers are clearly becoming more and more creative as they try new ways to bypass our anti-spam filters. Just recently, we received a spammed message disguised as a spam quarantine notification message from a competitor.
To the untrained eye, the email looks quite convincing. However, closer inspection of the message properties reveals that while the email [...]
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Spam Quarantine Notification = Spam
A recently conducted ethical phishing (New study details the dynamics of successful phishing) experiment impersonating LinkedIn by mailing invitations coming from Bill Gates, has achieved a 100% success rate in bypassing the anti-spam filters it was tested against.
The experiment emphasizes on how small-scale spear phishing campaigns are capable of bypassing anti-spam filters, and once again [...]
Scammers too, know Dilbert.
On their way to search for clean IPs through which to send out yet another scam email, 419 con-artists (Mrs Sharon Goetz Massey) have recently started using Dilbert.com’s recommendation feature in an attempt to bypass anti-spam filters — and it works. The use of Dilbert.com’s clean IP reputation comes a month after [...]
What do Burkina Faso and the New York Times have in common? As of recently, a peak of 419 scams promising you the Moon and asking you for advance-fees via emails sent through the NYTimes.com’s ‘email this feature’ in order to successfully bypass anti-spam filters.
The tactic applied by 419 con artists aiming to abuse the [...]
