Spammers are despicable, and even more despicable for using Coronavirus scare to their advantage.
They misspelled “COVID-19” as “CONVID-19”.
Here Comes the Coronavirus Spam
Pump-and-Dump Scammer is still at it.
Within the last 150 minutes, our spam filter caught more than 40 Pump-and-Dump email spam; the same ones from April 11, 2017.
Pump-and-Dump email spam typically comes in waves with randomly generated sender names. It is really easy to spot as it promises the potential collaborating-victim a quick scheme to make money. Based on our statistics, the scammer sends the email spam with two different subject lines and contents each day. If you happened to receive this kind of email spam, you would see multiple emails from different senders with the same exact subject line and content. They are really easy to spot.
You can help fighting the spammer by using services such as SpamCop.net.
Seems Legit: App Store Support Spam
Yet another round of spam purporting from “App Store Support” or “App Store Team”, complete with graphics directly linked from Apple’s own server.
Based on a few reports, this type of spam started making the round on Thursday, October 8, 2015. Anecdotally, all the reports come from users with mac.com emails.
Should you be getting this type of spam in your iCloud email, please forward the email as attachment to spam@icloud.com
Google’s Matt Cutts is hunting for Scraper Sites
Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted:
If you see a scraper URL outranking the original source of content in Google, please tell us about it: http://bit.ly/scraperspamreports
IT is truly frustrating to see your original contents stolen by these scraper sites. That’s an outright theft. It is relatively to find these scrapers, there are a lot of scraper blogs on WordPress.com.
Dan Barker replied and hilarity ensues:
.@mattcutts I think I have spotted one, Matt. Note the similarities in the content text: pic.twitter.com/uHux3rK57f
Spam Alert: Fake Drive Service Email
It seems that the same scammers/spammers who have been sending the Dropbox and Picasa phising email are still at it again.
The spam pretending to come from “Drive Service” which does not exist.
This particular “Drive Service” spam includes a modified privacy policy from Livedrive (livedrive.com).
Another spam purporting from “HomeVideo Library”, which is likely non-existent.
Scam Alert: Fake Email from Dropbox
It seems the same group of spammer/scammer is at it again, This time they are sending fake Dropbox email.
Remember that Dropbox does not send emails to users that their “image has been damaged”.
If you’re an iCloud user, forward this message as attachment to spam@icloud.com.
You could also use SpamCop’s services and please donate if you can.
Picasa Phishing Spam
We’ve been getting reports from a lot of people that they are also getting the fake Picasa email.
First and foremost, Picasa (Google) does not send you any email regarding your photos. There are no Picasa Photo Contest. Picasa does not actively “search” for your damaged photos.
Here are some screenshots of the phishing spam emails:
