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Spammers Scam Child Protection Group to Propagate Trojan

Dan Kaplan writes on SC Magazine Online:

Emails that appear sent by an anti-child pornography nonprofit group - but in fact are being delivered by spammers - are trying to use scare tactics to get unsuspecting recipients to download a trojan, a security firm warned today.

The spam claims the recipient's email address was discovered in a "child porn database" discovered by the Los Angeles-based Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP). In the message, the writer tells the recipients that the only way he will know the recipient is not a child porn offender is if they show "good will" and make a donation to the ASACP.

In a statement on its site, the ASACP assures users the bogus emails are not being sent by the organization and promises people a refund if they made a donation as a result of "duress" from receiving the email.

posted by Fergie @ 8/22/2006 12:14:00 PM