{"id":8852,"date":"2010-09-26T22:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T22:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/new_spam_outbreak_hits_tmc.html"},"modified":"2010-09-26T22:04:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T22:04:38","slug":"new-spam-outbreak-hits-tmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/new-spam-outbreak-hits-tmc.html","title":{"rendered":"New Spam Outbreak hits TMC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, one of TMC’s e-mail accounts has been getting flooded with thousands of spam messages which a coworker thought were from Russia. Here is a sample:<\/p>\n

From: R3Ou6pf@125.234.48.137.hcm.viettel.vn [mailto:R3Ou6pf@125.234.48.137.hcm.viettel.vn]<\/p>\n

Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 9:38 PM<\/p>\n

Subject:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Content-Type: text\/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed<\/p>\n

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<body link=”#990000″><div align=”center”><\/p>\n

  <table width=”370″ border=”1″ bgcolor=”#FF9853″><\/p>\n

    <tr><\/p>\n

      <td width=”360″ height=”145″ bgcolor=”#FFEFAE”><p align=”center”><font color=”#FF3300″ size=”5″ face=”Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif”>clicktema<\/font><\/p><\/p>\n

      <p align=”center”><a href=”standartclicklink”><font size=”4″ face=”Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif”>\u041f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0439\u0442\u0438 \u043d\u0430 \u0441\u0430\u0439\u0442 <\/font><\/a><\/p><\/td><\/p>\n

    <\/tr><\/p>\n

  <\/table><\/p>\n

<\/div><\/p>\n

I’ve been trying to see if this is an isolated incident or not – I have heard a report <\/a>of a virus affecting Hotmail users but so far Microsoft has not immediately responded to my request for more information. Besides, the sample email above is not a Viagra message – at least I think it isn’t.<\/p>\n

Moreover, it seems this message could be coming from Vietnam based on the .VN top-level domain.<\/p>\n

If you have been seeing any odd spam activity as of late please let me know so I can report on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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