More US political spam

Voter persuasion campaign late and sloppy, says Panda

Spam watchers at PandaLabs have spotted a campaign hoping to trick recipients into visiting a page attacking the state of US government, posing as security information about online banking.

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The emails purport to describe a phishing attack on online banks, but links contained in the email bodies redirect to a page bearing political invective.

According to PandaLabs boss Luis Corrons, the spam campaign is not only late, beginning its spread after voting in the recent elections finished, but also poorly designed, with the web links easily spotted, especially by users of text-only email.

The story follows recent criticism of US politicians for indulging in their own spam-like mass mail campaigns. More details can be found in a release from PandaLabs, here.

11 November 2006

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