Watch Out For PDF Spam
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The Spammers are getting clever. They’re now inserting their spam messages in PDF files and sending them as attachments to by pass spam filters. Since the emails themselves say little or nothing the hope is the recipients will be curious and open the PDF attachment as they’re considered to be a safe file by many.
While PDF files are relatively safe, they’re not always. Especially if your PDF reader isn’t up to date!
The most prevalent usage of PDF spam is for pump-and-dump stock spam campaigns. By the way, how does anyone still fall for these?
[tags]block spam, email, stock, stocks[/tags]

2 Comments
KM
June 28th, 2007
at 12:45pm
How does anyone still fall for these?
It’s the same reason why people play Lotto, go to Las Vegas and go to some women sitting in a 6×4 foot room in New York City who is going to tell you what you should expect in your life over the next 5 years. We all want the dream.
I asked one of my friends who is a retail stockbroker and who charges approximately $100-$200 a trade how he still has customers that do this sort of thing and he told me that he really doesn’t know. This may shock some readers but he told me that he wishes that he could trade at an online discount firm because it’s cheaper than if he runs trades for himself through his own firm. Trust me, this friend doesn’t really give any proprietary advice. These people that deal with him want the next big secret which they will probably never receive from him but they will pay thousands in commissions because that’s what they do.
I have a cousin that goes to Vegas every year and I told him that I have a money management strategy and he told me that if I do, I’m really not a real ganbler. I looked at him incredulously and then I thought, it really makes perfect sense.
In terms of penny stock investors (in which penny stocks are the subject of all stock spam, they’re not spamming GE stock folks) and why people read stock message boards and why they follow the advice of a financial spamologists, it’s just what penny stock investors do.
Matt
July 17th, 2007
at 3:34pm
Of course I do not fall for it but I am receiving about 100 of these damn emails a day! hahahaha, starting to lose it