Valentine's Day spam

Filed in archive Spam News on February 12, 2007

My tarot lady is no different from spammers: she develops a special sparkle in her eye anticipating increased Valentine's Day profit. Earning money on other people's love misery and loneliness is once again at it's highest peek, social engineering scam artists are the busiest people right now.

Spammers have devised a bundle filled with love, hugs, kisses, viruses and malware this Valentine's, be careful not to open it! PC Advisor warns:

"The security technology company has detected the mass mailing of messages containing the Nurech.A worm.
Within the first few hours of spreading, hundreds of computers were already infected, resulting in it being given an Orange virus status and being named as one of the top ten viruses detected by the company's ActiveScan tool.
The worm infects computers through emails with a variety of Valentine's-related subject titles such as 'Together You and I' and 'Everyone Needs Someone'. The worm is contained within an attached file with names such as flash postcard.exe or greeting postcard.exe."

My only trouble here is: Valentine's Day messages are supposed to be anonymous, so we're bound to get tons of e-mail from our secret admirers from various Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo accounts.

How on Earth can we confirm that that Valentine's note is really spam, and not a love testimony from that hot dude/gal we met at the last Startrack conference? Leaving you pondering about it, I also advise you to keep your operating systems updated, your anti-virus too.