Economic Crisis May Lead to Increase in Scams
Filed in archive Spam News on October 6, 2008
The growing financial crisis may lead to an even sharper rise in malicious spam as scammers exploit the grim headlines and prey on worried consumers. Troubled bank Wachovia has already been used as the subject of a phishing spam. In fact, as the country's financial woes began to deepen last month, the number of zombie computers sending spam rose a startling 101%! This could be signaling the beginning of a massive new spam campaign designed to exploit those woes as spam messages with subject lines such as "Save Your Home!" and "Avoid Foreclosure!" began circulating last month as well.
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Dennis
(05/14/09 12:36pm)
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We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Confirmed Package
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