July 2010 Archives

As previously discussed, the Chinese fake-storefront scammers who have been using other people's Hotmail accounts to send spam have also been hijacking Gmail accounts. Talking to people who have had their Gmail accounts hijacked has revealed one interesting fact: everyone we spoke to had used the same password for both Gmail and Facebook.

Long-running spammer Canadian Pharmacy has a new trick, which it has been using obsessively over the last few days. It consists of sending out messages that exactly duplicate notifications from popular services (Amazon, Digg, Wikipedia, etc) but contain URLs that direct recipients to the pharmacy site.