Currently spammed stocks

Posted by jerry as Uncategorized

This is a list of stocks being pumped and dumped by spammers. Trading in these stocks during such a time would be risky at best.

The currently spammed stocks pummeling inboxes worldwide are:

CHFR – China Fruits – This one has been spammed for quite some time.

CEOA – CEO America

CBRP – Cambridge Resources Corp. – Several different spamming approaches are being used for this, including the plain-text email with the pump, and a some image based ones that are completely illegible, except that they match up to the plain-text ones being received.

UTEV – United Environmental Energy Corp.
VCDY – Voice Diary Inc.

Spam Spam Spam

Posted by jerry as Uncategorized

You’ve probably noticed a sharp increase in spam lately.  Here’s an interesting story behind a big driver behind the increase: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2060235,00.asp

 Basically, trojaned PCs are being used in a very sophisticated network to send out spam.  These bots are sending out very unique spam that incorporates random text that is collected from the internet with an image that carries the “payload”.  Each image is custom generated.  Even if it is possible to effectively OCR the image for processing, the volume that these mails are coming out will strain even the most capable mail servers, putting mail administrators in a difficult position.  The only effective way to block this spam is to adopt some unpopular filtering tactics, like:

• blocking mail from a “dynamic ip”
• enforcing protocol compliance (dns, smtp, etc)
• using controversial DNS block lists

Unfortunately, spammers are forcing the hands of mail administrators.  This is forcing out those who run their own mail servers at home or on similar systems.  Ultimately, there will be no choice – we as mail administrators will have to do it in order to survive.  It will not be a 100% solution to the problem, but it will greatly reduce or eliminate the impact of spam originating from home computers participating in a spam botnet.