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In Your Face: New Storm Spam Gets Right to the Point

Any spam that starts out by saying:

"OK! I'll get right to the point. I have large amount of funds on numerous bank accounts which needs to be laundered. I need your help to do that. You'll get 10% of each transaction coming into your bank account." "I can provide transaction of up to $5000."

...and also claims to be "completely legal" is bound to spell trouble.

Yet, this is the latest "direct marketing" social-engineering tactic being used by the Storm puppet-masters, and it contains links which lead to the website/forum pictured above.

And it has badness written all over it.

Other domains being served by this domain's nameservers have already been RBL'd:





Also, the nameservers are registered with a domain registrar in China, and the IP addresses are actually located in France (and elsewhere).

So, let's be careful out there.

Credit where credit is due: Symantec

posted by Fergie @ 9/14/2007 01:15:00 PM