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Symantec: Spammers Forge Phony Newsletters, Trying to Fool Filters
3 commentsIt seems that spammers have a new tactic in their war to get their unwanted... uhhh... content through our spam filters: forged newsletters.
What they're doing is sending messages that look like legitimate newsletters. Nasty. Examples seen so far appear to be from well-known brands such as 1-800-Flowers, Kohl, U.S. Airways, and "a fantasy football league."
I've not seen any in my overflowing spam traps -- credit for discovering the phony newsletters goes to Symantec. I guess it takes a large organization, with 24x7, follow-the-sun labs to really keep on top of new developments in spam tactics. It's the speed of identifying these sort of early indications that separates the men from the boys, as it were.
For more detail, see my fuller analysis at richij.com.
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