Spam on the Rise This Holiday Season
This holiday season, be aware of holiday spam. 10.9 percent of all spam this season from Thanksgiving until now has been Christmas related. Most spam will have subject about hard-to-find toys, gift ideas and holiday e-cards.
“Beginning around Thanksgiving and continuing until New Year’s, we see a rise in Christmas spam,” Penny Freeman, director of sales engineering for Marshal Threat Research and Content Engineering, in a release Dec. 11.
With spam continuously increasing, it’s becoming extremely difficult to determine which email is genuine and which is a fake. You’ve probably received bogus email from Washington Mutual, Citibank or AOL. Or maybe you’ve been the lucky recipient of an email from a Romanian Dignitary that was referred to you to help him disburse an incredibly large amount of money. All you need to do is send him $1,000 to cover the wire transfer fee or send him your bank account information.
These schemes are becoming better and they look more authentic every day. If you haven’t taken the time to add Internet protection software to your PC, don’t think too long. It’s better to be protected, than sorry.
Source: eWeek.com
Leave a Reply