Interesting Spam

If you make a habit of misspelling email addresses or even typing in the wrong internet fax, you might be the next target for these spammers. There are some websites with names that are confusingly similar to legitimate sites have been set up to reply to any mail sent to them. The responses are framed as out-of-office replies, but sneak in mentions of a new product or service you should try. Another part of this type of spam is that it is made to look like from one of the people in your address book so it is ideal when people use their business email account to send the emails to the wrong addresses. It was also found that there are actually a lot of people that make these typos. I mean it is enough that the people that set up these websites are actually making money. Something else that is important to note is that a small security firm recently reported setting up 30 Web addresses, with names similar to those of major corporations, and saving every email that came in over six months. The firm, Godai Group, ended up with 120,000 emails, with contents that included trade secrets and network usernames and passwords. Think about that the next time you are double checking that address.