We’ve noticed a significant increase in realistic looking LinkedIn reminder spam e-mails over the past week.
The e-mail appears to arrive from messages-noreply@bounce.linkedin.com on behalf of LinkedIn communication [communication@linkedin.com] and is an exact copy of the official LinkedIn reminder e-mail.
Hovering over the link show us that the spam e-mail is attempting to direct us to a redirection page on a hacked website.
After clicking the link, several redirects take place until we finally land at a fake pharmacy website.
Thanks to Michael Boman for sharing the e-mail sample.
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They are not being used for fake pharmacy sites but for virus hosting sites, too. It looks there’s somebody making a bunch of dollars with that dirty job.
Saw a similar message in my inbox, but with an attachment. More here:
http://bartblaze.blogspot.com/2010/09/spam-please-find-enclosed.html
Wonderful post but I was wanting to know if you could write a litte more on this subject?
I’d be very thankful if you could elaborate a little bit further.
Cheers!
I don’t know if it’s just me or if perhaps everybody else encountering
problems with your blog. It appears as though some of the written text within
your content are running off the screen. Can somebody else please provide
feedback and let me know if this is happening to them as well?
This might be a issue with my web browser because I’ve had
this happen previously. Many thanks