The January State of Spam reportshows that as 2007 ended, spam surged and accounted for 75 percent ofall email, increasing to 83 percent in the last few days leading up tothe holiday season. The December State of Spam report had showed that 72% of email traffic was spam.
Spammers changed their techniques for the holidays by insertingseasonal oriented keywords into URLs, subject lines, and embeddedimages within their messages. The objective here was to implant theholiday spirit into the readers' minds and provide blatant gift-givingideas. No, there were no guessing games here as to what the spammerswanted to sell you for the gift giving season. The...
China is a major exporter of goods and isknown for mass production of cheap products. How often do you see "Madein China" on toys, gadgets, or the latest "it" thing? Who doesn't wantto get these hot products cheap and direct from the manufacturer?Spammers are hoping that you do and have ramped up their game to gainbusiness. Below I'm going to give an outline of the recent history of"Made in China" wholesale product spam.
This spam type originated with bidding Web sites - online auctionhouses. Spammers opened accounts on these bidding sites and posted highpriced, hot products at cheap prices hoping to gain bidder interest.When a potential bidder asked a question through the site the spammerwould provide their "wholesale supplier product Web site," contactemail, and instant messaging ID for contact purposes. The email addressand IM are all registered with third party free email services.
If users don't ask questions, the spammer then sends a fake Q...
