Death by postcard (don't click)

[Pablo]

Is this for real??

Nephew([email protected]) has created Thank you postcard for you
at 2000greetings.com.

To see your custom Thank you postcard, simply click on the following link:

http://70.50.50.158/

Send a FREE greeting card from 2000greetings.com whenever you want by visiting us at:
This service is provided and hosted by 2000greetings.com.

 

[rriddle3]

I have been getting at least 6 of this type a day for the last 2 months in my bulk email box. Must be the new thing in spam.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

YES! TONS of these are being released into the wild.

That IP shows that it's out of Quebec Canada. Many of these SPAM messages are coming out of Slovakia & Eastern Europe/Russia.

 

[Lonnie]

I received one with a work and they did not even charge for the service.

Never never chase the link unless you know what's on the other end.

 

[Pablo]

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That IP shows that it's out of Quebec Canada.

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Ah those pesky Canadians. Another guy from Quebec with a stiffy for me. Some day I'll do a post about the first and only time I was ripped off in the Amsoil trade - by a cahookian, a case of gallons.... to a mail store. Boy was I stupid.... of course the authorities in Quebec are of no help, even though I gave them the address, etc

 

[Matt_S]

That's just the latest way to get around spam filters. E-cards are common enough that most spam filters won't catch them and it's very difficult to differentiate between legit ones and spam. If they can get you to click the link, thinking it's from a family member or friend, they can deliver the ad without it being filtered out.

 

[Camu Mahubah]

Pablo how long do we have to wait for the "case of the gallon heist"?

"You see it was a dreary, rainy day in WA..."

 

[sprintman]

Better than death by Powerpoint

 

[obbop]

Another use for spam mailings is to get a list of verified addresses.

Various methods for sender to verify a recipient actually exists at an address.

Forget the details but an embedded one-pixel pic can notify sender a recipient has opened the e-mail.

Along with stuff folks above wrote.

I remain, reveling in my lethargy, pondering healing molecules.

 

[ALS]

Guelph, Ontario the spam capital of the world.
Yes I get probably 4 to 8 of those card Emails each day.
Never opened one I just delete them.

 

[Dr_No]

So i can't click the link there without getting a ton of emails?

 

[Dr_No]

Lets say
Americans are jerks. How loving.

 

[simple_gifts]

Well, I read an instance of a company who sent out THOUSANDS of e-mails with PDF attachments and a web link to its employees. The link directed the users to a bogus website; by inspecting the proxy log it appeared a full 25% of employees decided to click on the link in the e-mail.

These are fundamentally social engineering issues not technology ones.

 

[Dr_No]

It's a storm worm, take it from me
I just got one.