Swine flu inspires spammers

While the media cover each new outbreak of the swine flu, also known as the Mexican flu here in Belgium, spammers get inspired to use the subject in their spam campaigns. Here we have some examples.

There are two spam outbreaks regarding the swine flu. The first outbreak had ‘swine flu’ in the subject line and direct the reader to online pharmacy stores. We have intercepted similar samples here at MX Lab.

Following one of the links will lead you to the Canadian Health & Care Mall web site.

While other links will lead you to the well know Canadian Pharmacy, one of our favourites at MX Lab.

The second outbreak was to harvest emails for spammers. The subjects where randomly generated and ‘swine flu’ appeared in the body of the spam email. These mails where sent in huge numbers to check the validity of large groups of email addresses to build new spam campaigns.