Dynamoo's Blog

Malware, spam, scams and random stuff, by Conrad Longmore.

Friday, 29 May 2009

Bing.com is coming. W00t!

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Microsoft is launching a new search engine called bing.com on Monday. Given the current fashion for "reboots" in movies and TV sh...
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Thursday, 28 May 2009

Podzz.com domain scam

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Podzz.com is the latest incarnation of a fraudulent domain appraisal scam being run out of Canada. The basic pitch is that you receive an u...
Wednesday, 27 May 2009

"Dealer warning as police investigate security imposters"

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I don't usually recycle press releases, but this one is of interest. It's really aimed at mobile phone dealers and details the possi...
Tuesday, 26 May 2009

"Norton Finance" fraudulent loan offer

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Norton Finance are a real company that offers loans, typically to people with poor credit ratings. This lazy scam email is not from Norton...
Wednesday, 20 May 2009

mig-design.com fraudulent job offer

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A straightforward pitch for what is probably a money mule operation. Subject: Looking for a job? More info here From: "...
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Phorm Whitewash

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The British government's stance on Phorm has always been pretty supine. Despite serious allegation of criminal misconduct by Phorm and ...
Monday, 18 May 2009

NameOrange / nameorange.com scam

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Another variant of this scam and this scam linked to a guy called Manuel Fichter - the basic pitch is that you get an email offering to bu...

martuz.cn injection attack

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In the past couple of weeks, thousands of websites were hit with an injection attack pointing to gumblar.cn.. this week it has changed to ma...
Wednesday, 13 May 2009

419ers hit by the downturn?

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A strangely worded 419 scam arrived today in a format I haven't seen before. Perhaps the economic downturn is having an effect on the s...
Tuesday, 12 May 2009

"Western Union Transfer MTCN: 2474153681" trojan

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Another EXE-in-ZIP trojan, this time disguised as an Excel spreadsheet. The pitch is: Subject: Western Union Transfer MTCN: 2474153...
Monday, 11 May 2009

Michael Price / BizSummits.org unsolicited bulk email

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I've had a few of these in the past, but this time my spidey sense was tingling. Subject: Roger, Website discussion on April 21st. ...
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Underwater mobile phone

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Need a phone that works under water? Well, the Samsung B2100 Solid Extreme does. But as they used to say on TV.. "kids, don't try t...
Friday, 1 May 2009

webmail.upgrade@spamcop.net phish

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A fairly lazy attempt to phish SpamCop accounts, originating from 200.85.160.12 in Nicaragua. If you're a SpamCop subscriber, then repor...
Friday, 24 April 2009

"WorldPay CARD transaction Confirmation" (again)

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A repeat of a trojan spam run from a few months ago ,this fake "WorldPay CARD transaction Confirmation" email comes with a nasty ...

"IBC Group" fake job offer

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There are lots of wholly legitimate firms called "IBC Group" or something similar. This one claims to be an "international bu...
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Russian / Italian spam

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One of the major hurdles that spammers and scammers face is language . A typical eastern bloc scammer usually won't be able to speak any...
Tuesday, 21 April 2009

"August Insurance USA" scam

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Another fraudulent job offer, this time originating from 190.43.155.148 in Peru. It doesn't really matter what the exact fraud is, this ...
Monday, 20 April 2009

barefootsies.com: possible Joe Job.

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Friday, 17 April 2009

Waledac: freeservesms.com

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Waledac is pretty common these days, and it usually tries to point the victim to a fake video codec that is actually a trojan, often through...
Wednesday, 15 April 2009

"Yadu Investment Co., Ltd." / ntwifinetwork.com / tech-wifi.com

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This email (supposedly from a Chinese domain registrar) follows a well-worn path of trying to sell useless names to owners of existing dot c...
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