The Spam Omelette #56

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Week
in Review: January 6 – 13

1. Your
E-MAIL address belongs to us!

This week’s number one spam word
is E-MAIL, and it has been mostly
detected in messages promoting counterfeit Viagra and Cialis pills from world’s
top spammer, Canadian Pharmacy. The online store continues to use small-size
image-based messages impersonating newsletters. More than that, every single
link included in the message body leads the user to a clone of the website.
These websites are now hosted on randomly-generated, 9-character domains (qu******h.cn)
purchased via a Chinese registrar.

2. Privacy, Policy, Copyright and Unsubscribe,
all-in-one

On the second place, we don’t
have a single word, as usually, but rather a group of four words that are
closely interconnected and like to “travel” in the same messages. The
above-mentioned terms have been identified by BitDefender’s spam researchers in
a large wave of unsolicited mail also coming from Canadian Pharmacy. They are
part of the footer disclaimer in newsletter-like messages. Rather than
performing the mentioned task, these hyperlinks take the user to various copies
of Canadian Pharmacy online stores.

4. CONTACT us if you need more spam!

The word CONTACT takes the fourth
place and has been detected in two medium-sized spam campaigns. While the
former spam wave tries to sell sexual enhancements (knockoff Viagra and
Cialis), the latter presents the services offered by the”China-based” webdesign
company we talked about in our previous issues of the Spam Omelette.