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  alex 6:41 pm on November 17, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: e-mail, Email Address, Mail Spam, Phishing, Social Engineering (4), Social Enginering, Spam Email, Spam List, Stop Spam   

  Social Engineering in Spam Comments! 

  you’ve got to love them for trying! In my blog comments today i got one that read:

  to: Admin – If You want to delete your site from my spam list, please sent url of your domain to my emai: stop.web.spam@gmail.com
  And I will remove your site from my base within 24 hours
  webmastegz

  PS. As the previous address of an e-mail has been removed also all letters on it have been lost I is compelled to make this dispatch once again.
  PS2. To send url your site on an e-mail stop.web.spam@gmail.com is a unique way to avoid a spam from me. To write abuses to the various “stop spam” sites – it is useless.
  PS3. Your addresses of an e-mail are not necessary to me, you can create an e-mail through free service and send me yours url through this e-mail
  PS4. sorry for my bad English

  Their aim is to get you to email them, and guess what, they’ll start to spam your email address…no intention of not spamming you…reverse psychology…

  On the subject of spamming, in the next few weeks will be starting my research on using social engineering,spamming and phishing on social network sites, so I’ll be posting some more facebook research shortly!

   

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  alex 2:07 pm on July 15, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: art of deception (2), Backdoor, Backdoors, Bank Details, con (2), e-mail, Ebay (3), email, Free Adult Sites, Free Porn, Google (2), hacking (2), Hacking Into Computers, Mass Emails, New Ways, phising, Scammers, Security (3), Social Engineering (4), Social Engineers (2), Spelling Mistakes, Spoof, spoof sites, trojan, Trojan Horse, virus (2), Virus Scanner, World War 3   

  Social Engineering Tactics: Attacking With e-mails 

  Computer security:How Social Engineers are hacking into computers using Trojans as backdoors by getting users to click links in e-mails

  Background
  We are all very aware of attacks to gain our bank details by sending spoof emails of various banks, eBay and google ads accounts. More info about social engineers can be found on the The Art of Deception post.

  The Con
  Social Engineers are finding new ways to attack victims using Phishing methods. They send mass emails with subjects similar to those pictured bellow:

  

  the subject of the e-mails are designed so that you click on them, some other headers included World War 3 videos, video of saddam beheading etc

  

  emails typically contain a link to the page which contains a Trojan. Most of the time (as in most of the emails written by scammers), the grammar isn’t correct, many spelling mistakes as well as other mistakes such as the formatting of addresses.

  

  So when the user goes to ‘play’ the video, they are promted to download a file in order to play the file (often the file downloads without interaction from the user). However, this file contains a backdoor into your system (Trojan Horse).

  Similarly this method of getting the user to download a file in order to ‘play’ a video or somehow access content is used on ‘free’ adult sites – claiming free porn – when in fact they are getting a virus.

  How to Prevent?

  Have a good Virus Scanner that scans sites and files as you visit them on the Internet. The one i use is AVAST Free edition and it stops the Trojan entering the PC, and terminating the connection with that server….and keep it up to date, otherwise its pointless having it installed

  In general if the email looks dodgy don’t click links in it – simple!