McAfee Labs Publishes 'March Spam Report'

McAfee Labs today published its March Spam Report.

This month authors Adam Wosotowsky and Elan Winkler discuss a possible charity scam in France that takes advantage of sympathy for the victims of the Haitian earthquake, examine a “ham campaign” regarding events in Haiti, and look at another fraudulent attempt to connect “lonely women” with victims’ credit cards.

Our key topics:

• Security professionals working together can expose fraudsters and sometimes bring about their arrests. One of our French researchers shows how it can work.
• The disaster in Haiti was as usual a spark for spammers, but it also caused a significant amount of legitimate “ham” email
• Spammers based primarily in China are keeping busy sending out scams offering Russian “brides” for sale

For this report and others, many available in up to eight languages besides English, visit our Threat Center Technical White Papers page.