New iPad Attracts Spammers
By Jason on March 10, 2010 | Spam and email, iPad, Apple, United States, anti-spam, Trend Micro, word-of-mouth
According to Apple's recent announcement a new iPad will soon be available in the United States. However, spammers is also enjoying it, because they can use it by their own malicious intentions.
What is more, even now Trend Micro anti-spam research engineers have already seen a number of spammed messages. Those messages offers free iPads to users. As an example, in such spam users are invited to test iPad for free only just be a part of a “word-of-mouth” marketing campaign. This is not related with money, but spammers gain recipients identities.
The spammed messages instruct users to reply to the email with their private information, which spammers could use it for their malicious activities.
Argie Gallego, Trend Micro anti-spam research engineer, says: “Users should be suspicious of any freebies offered online, particularly those requiring sensitive personal information such as full name and contact numbers. We have only seen a number of iPad-related spam so far but we expect the numbers to rise as April 3 draws near.”
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