Spammers’ Email Scare Tactics
September 22, 2011 by admin
Recently discovered, a new social engineering scam that is appearing in clients’ email boxes. The attack tries to scare the user into opening the infected attachment by threatening to sue them for spamming.
What the email claims is that the user’s mail server has been sending spam to the outside world. The email is spoofed to appear as if it comes from known and reputable companies. The attachment in these emails is a fake ZIP file that supposedly contains a scanned copy of a document that has evidence of your spam, but in reality is an EXE file that contains a Trojan downloader, which pulls in malware.
The subject line varies, and contains threats that are designed to make someone worry and click on the link. Inform your users of the dangers of opening these email attachments. If you aren’t sure whether the email is a threat, have your users send these emails as attachments (check your email documentation) to hosting@liveoakhosting.com.