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Spam Alert: Obama In Sex Tape Scandal (Again)
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2008-11-10
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Malicious spammers/hackers are continuing their efforts via shocking Obama-related subject lines. And why not? With a success rate of 1 in 12.5 million, that's at least 30 dopes in the US who might fall for it.
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Apparently, thanks to Bill Clinton perhaps, Democrat President is synonymous with pervert. The recent rash of malicious emails come with the promise of a Barack Obama sex tape.
The text of the email reads: "Barak Obama p0rn video, file attached, watch him".
Once again they've proven their skill with spelling, and this particular strategy isn't new either. They tried it back in September, too, at the beginning of the great political spam surge.
Attachments to the emails prompt the download of a zip file labeled zeland-01.zip, but Sophos says it's actually Troj/Agent-IDO Trojan horse.
According to a recent BBC report, it doesn't take much to encourage spammers to continue. What we might consider utter futility they view as reasonable return on investment, at least as far as closing an actual sale. Researchers found that out of 350 million spam messages sent, 28 sales resulted.
It's unclear how much malware makes it through.
This week it was an Obama sex tape, and last week was a fatal heart attack (they said "heart stroke") for one John McCane. Uncanny name. Fortunately, John McCain is still alive and ticking. Perhaps the heart attack was caused by the news of Cindy McCane's private video.
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