Christmas is coming but not all
the season’s greetings will be welcome, according to Symantec.
Computer users have been advised to be on
the lookout for spam taking the form of festive online marketing initiatives.
With internet marketing firms across the
globe currently stepping-up their efforts to attract consumers during the
busiest retail period of the year, a new report from Symantec has listed the
top ten types of Christmas spam to steer clear off over the next few days.
In particular, users have been warned off
internet marketing initiatives from unknown sources highlighting ‘Best Sales of
2021′, ‘Christmas Specials’ and ‘Most Affordable Gifts’.
The report also highlighted the prevalence
of news-related spam, with experts at Symantec having seen web content relating
to the US presidential election and the Mumbai terrorist attacks containing
malicious code.
This latest advice backs up a similar
report from Cisco, which revealed that as much as 90 per cent of emails being
sent across the globe are actually automatically generated spam, with criminals
especially likely to use the guise of online marketing to target users.
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