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Swine Flu Spam

Monday, April 27, 2009 at 5:56am by Chris Barton
Chris Barton

The Swine Flu pill spam has started and it’s taking a few Hollywood stars names in vain. Nothing out of the ordinary with the sites on the far end yet though I do expect Oseltamivir [AKA Tamiflu] will get some extra exposure once the affiliate pill sites are updated.

Swine Flu

Subjects:

First US swine flu victims!
US swine flu statistics
Salma Hayek caught swine flu!
Swine flu worldwide!
Swine flu in Hollywood!
Swine flu in USA
Madonna caught swine flu!

Also we’ve noticed domain name registrations mentioning the word swine are up by about 30 times and you can bet your daughters it’s not all going to be “whitehat” SEO.

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Comments (3)

  • How To Prevent Flu July 8, 2009 11:38AM

    Hmm. I’ve never seen any of those.. but then again, my email address doesn’t often get spam…

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  • Juan Vázquez April 29, 2009 9:14AM

    Is there some MTIS or Avert Notice with more detail for customers?
    Thanks,
    JC

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  • Tony Bradley April 27, 2009 6:18AM

    It is fairly inevitable. The sad part is that the Internet has such potential as a resource of instant news and information, but because spam purveyors, malware developers, and phishing attackers prey on the news headlines most likely to draw attention people have to be much more cautious and filter the news and information through a lens of skepticism.

    There is real information out there as well. Just exercise some common sense. Don’t click on links from within emails (open a web browser and find the site manually rather than clicking a link that could redirect you to a malicious site) and don’t open any file attachments.

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