A New Spam Scam

Published on May 16, 2005 By greywar In Internet

Just got a new scam that made it through the spam filter. This one looks like a delivery failure notification but it is from an email that you never sent. Wose still is that it has a semi legit link at the bottom to an article at Der Speigel. All the Kenyan email addresses on it suggest something nefarious though... A Sample...

waxe@amirankenya.com
annemurungi@amirankenya.com
alari@amirankenya.com
amuholo@amirankenya.com
ofredrick@amirankenya.com
okongo21@amirankenya.com
steve.mee@amirankenya.com
smulluka@amirankenya.com
asitati@amirankenya.com

From: me@anemail.adress
To: ckaranja@amirankenya.com
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 06:02:53 GMT
Subject: The Whore Lived Like a German
Full Article:

Oddly the link was to a review of a movie about the death of a Muslim a woman. Not sure what the goal of this spam is really but it is a new one... I wouldn't suggest emailing any of these folks unless of course you want to mes with them...

Comments (Page 2)

Moderateman

on May 16, 2005

I use outlook express, with a spam blocker, firewall and a virus scanner also an ad and pop-up blocker, loaded and ready for bear and have not had spam, or a virus or spy/ad wear get thru all this for at least the last 3 years.

WOWfactor.555.

on May 16, 2005

Happened To Me About 2 Months Ago. Always Looked Like a Daemon Delivery Failure.
Never Did Open Them Since I Knew They Weren't Legit. Forwarded Them To Yahoo As Spam, And After About 2 Weeks They Stopped ....

Tarkus

on May 17, 2005

I got one of those scams today asking me to verify my Amazon.com account with credit card info, etc. They even said a scan of a picture ID might be necessary.

Link looked legit until I did a mouse over. Not that I would have clicked on the link anyway. I would have just went directly to Amazon.com to see if they need anything from me.

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SSOne

on May 17, 2005

yeah, i got one yesterday. It was a MAILER-DA.. one, like, saying I sent a message and it was returned. But the domain was not hotmail, so I deleted it.

ALSO: Anyone using hotmail, there are mayjor "Julie" e-mails pouring in a bunch of my hotmail accounts and other ppl's inboxes. MSN detects them as junk tho so thats good

I also got a "subscription failure" or "subscription complete" from loboco.com or something like that (a non-existing site).

Ahhhh spam, viruses, worms, trojans, adware, spyware, wat shall we do with you.

Tarkus

on May 17, 2005

I get "important" mails all the time from banks, asking me to verify my account info, even though I've never done business with them.

AeonOfTime

on May 19, 2005

That spam you received comes from a new german virus based on the 'Sober' virus. It uses all contacts stored in Outlook Express on infected computer to send messages hostile to foreigners. I have a german email address on which I'm currently topping at 600 of virus mails per day... This reawakens old nordic genes that tell me to go get my axe and behead a few of the authors of those texts

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