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Spammers Promise Nude Gambling
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2006-09-08
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It's not that it's not interesting, it's just illegal. Australian security firm Sophos is sending out the warning of online casinos spamming inboxes with promises of live nude dealers.
If Vegas dealers were nude, would you ever leave the Craps table?
The link in the email promises a virtual experience like that with poor spelling. Casino only has one "o."
"Casinos on the Las Vegas strip provide cheap or free alcoholic beverages to lessen the mental processes of gamblers. Online casinos don't have that luxury, so it appears they are trying to distract gamblers in more titillating ways," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos.
"Whatever you think of these tactics, the gambling websites are in danger of breaking the law by sending unsolicited spam like this. Companies and home users need to protect themselves from the nuisance of junk mail, and boycott those businesses who are supporting it."
Sophos didn't report any malware in association with the spam.
The U.S. is currently in the midst of a crackdown on online gambling, indicting even overseas operators, the American-based ad companies that run their campaigns, and detaining gambling site proprietors at U.S. airports.
Spam would just add to the rap sheet, it would seem.
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