Last year, phishers targeted Wikipedia with a large number of spam emails that directed unsuspecting users to a fraudulent Wikipedia website. Currently, we are observing a new spam tactic being use
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419 Spam Goes Lingo
May 12, 2011
Symantec
Have you ever received an email from an unknown person offering you an exorbitant amount of money and asking for your personal information in return? Well, that is exactly what a “419 scam
Dotted Decimal URL Obfuscation
May 10, 2011
Symantec
Spamming with dotted decimal URL (a dotted decimal URL refers to the four-byte IP address notation as a sequence of four decimal numbers separated by dots) is one of the most often seen URL-obfusca
Scammers have been busy these days generating false news alerts through email spam. In this way, they are trying to advertise their so-called rewarding “work from home” business. They a