CNN spam

re: CNN spam

Debbie P. — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:41:05 GMT

Ive gotten 15+ of these in the last week, also from "MSNBC breaking news". Became suspicious when I saw the weird URLs. Didn't know what to think,as they do look official Thankfully did not open any stories.

Thanks for the blog!

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Pete Cee — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:56:48 GMT

All the email accounts I use a lot have been flooded out with the fake CNN emails. So I set up filters to stop them but now, like ron sercely, I'm getting the MSNBC ones. It's a real pain. Why can't there be international co-operation to put these crooks out of business and to get tough with the ISP's that allow it to happen?

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ron sercely — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:33:49 GMT

and now, I not only getting these CNN alerts, but I am getting basically the same spam but as MSNBC news alerts.

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Townsend Harris — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:35:58 GMT

If I recall correctly, this spoofing that then delivers a payload of spam or a botnet download is a kind of "Joe Job".

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Nigel — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:05:11 GMT

Getting about 15 a day of these and getting annoyed. Thanks for the tips above. Guess I'll be setting my preferences this morning

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Preston Lewis — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:00:53 GMT

When I first began to get these CNN emails, I hovered my mouse over the HTML link and looked to see the actual address which was usually in Russia (not always). I also looked to see the email address who sent it (not always the truth either) but in these CNN SPAM emails the return address was never CNN but instead was different email addresses every time.

To be safe, just never use a link in an email.

For those of you complaining that unsubscribing at CNN doesn't work . . . Duh. Since CNN didn't send it how can they unsubscribe you? It's SPAM. The links connect you to a hijacked server, not CNN. It's people like you that fall for these kinds of trojans. If you don't know to NEVER click on a link in an email . . .

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Brian — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:40:37 GMT

It is absolutely impossible to get rid of the CNN spam; I've been trying to unsubscribe several times through their system, where I'm forced to agree to their stupid policy before unsubscribe, but I still get the same spam.

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Chris — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:52:01 GMT

Richard - The links at the bottom (unsubscribe, etc.) are legitimate; I went to them myself and tested them against navigating to the same pages from CNN.com itself. It's just the news story links that are wonky.

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YaPS — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:54:59 GMT

Recieved a couple of these as well.

Links to rosteh-komplekt.ru in my latest one.

Missing plugin was identified as a variant of the W32/Nuwar Worm via Nod32.

FYI.

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samscreen — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:01:02 GMT

Your blog and all comments were really helpful. We need more good guys like you. Thanks.