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Spammers Take Advantage of Air France Crash

Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 12:38pm by Francois Paget
Francois Paget

As we foresaw, spammers have used the Air France AF447 disaster to catch people’s attention and prompt them to open fake news emails related to this event. Less than two weeks after the crash, the firsts emails started to spread. We’ve seen the following subjects:

  • A-330 blackbox record
  • Another plane crushed
  • Last seconds of plane

When opened, all these emails display advertisements promoting Canadian pharmacy products such as Viagra and Cialis.


Two days ago, we saw several million spam messages with these subjects. Today this number is only half as big.

As usual, these spammers are disrespectful and do not hesitate to use the most shocking events to promote their shady businesses.

I thank my colleague Adam Wosotowsky for his invaluable assistance with this post.

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