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  • PDF Spam Escalates Spam War

    The PDF Spam Spike marks an escalation in the spam war. Spam rates, which have seen triple digit annual growth rates over the past two years, spiked dramatically last week. Spammers are sending larger and larger batches of spam and using ever-evolving cloaking techniques to evade email security filters. The latest ...
    Posted to MX Watch (Weblog) by Joel on August 15, 2007
  • Attachment Spam / Pump and Dump Scam Combo Behind Spam Spike

    Last week's spam spike, marked by the single biggest one day jump ever (445%), put a new twist on an ever-evolving combination of spam and scam campaigns. A massive flood of PDF Spam was used to propogate a Pump and Dump Stock Scheme. The scam-paign lifted the share price of Prime Time Limited, a small ...
    Posted to MX Watch (Weblog) by Joel on August 15, 2007