Although it’s not completely clear, this one looks as though the author is pretending to be a female who is trying to trick males of the species into opening an attachment that accompanies this spam. I’m not sure what the fake “Facebook” in the “From:” line is all about. Maybe the author figures that using [...]

As most Apple fans know by now, the company did not release the iPhone 5, but that doesn’t stop spammers from trying to capitalize on the hype that was generated by the possibility of it’s introduction. A nasty spam campaign was launched that sent out messages that were said to be the announcement  of the [...]

Spam is never sent out just because spammers are bored. There’s always a purpose behind a spam e-mail message. It could be fairly “innocent” (by comparison) and is just an advertisement that’s trying to convince you to buy a certain product. As many internet users already know, popular products promoted by spammers include drugs (Viagra, [...]

Since the low-life scum behind this one seem so intent on distributing it as widely as possible (I have received it in more than one of my e-mail accounts), it seemed worth posting here as a warning. DO NOT extract or open the attachment from this e-mail message, and even more importantly do NOT run [...]

Don’t fall for this one! It seems the old fake anti-virus scams have increased in popularity lately and the low life of the internet are trying every trick they can think of to get people to believe that their computers are infected with a virus or some other nasty malware. I know this is not [...]

Here’s an excellent example of a message that should not pass “Go” and proceed directly to the trash. The attached ZIP file likely contains something nasty that will not be good for you or your computer. If you’re a native English speaker, you will probably notice that this is worded a bit strangely. This is [...]

Here’s the most recent batch of these “UPS Invoice” and “UPS Delivery Problem” spam e-mails with attached malware. Just delete ‘em without opening! From:    UPS PostBox-Manager, Helen Ketner [ekcwk@ups.com] Sent:    Tuesday, June 29, 2010 8:36 AM Subject:    UPS INVOICE NR9549710. Attachments:    7927238.jpg Sen. Frank Lautenberg Says He’s Cancer-Free Video: Sen. Robert C. Byrd, 1917-2010 World [...]

This one is not new, but it is still a nasty one. Since yesterday, I have received 8 of these types of messages, all caught by my virus scanner and rendered harmless. I decided to do a little digging this time around and find out just a little bit more about these messages. The nasty [...]

Here’s one of those gems you just want to DELETE right away. Do NOT extract or open the attached file. It contains malware that you do not want on your computer. In case you have not guess, this message is NOT from iTunes. From: "iTunes Online Products" software@itunes.com Subject: Thank you for buying iTunes Gift [...]

I’ve saved the best for last today! The last thing you want to do is look at the attachment that this low-life scumbag is sending out. Don’t trust your anti-virus scanner to catch this one, because two of them on my PC did not, but VirusTotal did catch it. I know better than to open [...]