Archive for November 2005
Spam in the past has usually given ‘lucky’ punters the opportunity to increase the size of certain body parts but recent spam doing the rounds spotted by Sophos is quite the opposite, spammers are offering money in return for some of your body parts!
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Spammers have stooped to apalling levels in the past such as exploiting the death of the pope and various natural disasters - they are now trying to capitalize on a potential epidemic by peddling drugs online that are purportedly a cure for the bird flu virus.
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Six years jail for Weaselboy Peter Francis-Macrae
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UK spammer Peter Francis-Macrae (aka Weaselboy) has been sentenced to six years in prison for fraud.
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Pfizer Netherlands has started a radio campaign against Viagra spam, warning consumers that 97 per cent of the pills offered are counterfeit. Radio commercials on public broadcast radio and Sky Radio also warn purchasers that many of the illegal drugs are unapproved and may not contain the real chemical.
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Millions of UK Internet users are putting themselves at risk of attack from Internet criminals because they don’t understand threats to their computer or the ways to protect against them, according to findings of a new campaign called ‘Get Safe Online’ that launched last week in London to tackle the problem.
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