The Joys of Spam
January 8th, 2010
Well, I woke up today to a fun spam email.
It’s not hard to figure out what is legit and what is not, and this looked wrong from the start.
But ya’ll know me, so I decided to bite.
Dear user of the ubuntu.com mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (paultag@ubuntu.com) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:
< Link Removed >
Best regards, ubuntu.com Technical Support.
Letter_ID#6UPIDN62MYA98Q5F4KG
This fun link had nothing less then a sight to be seen –
Ubuntu uses Microsft Exchange!
7 Responses to “The Joys of Spam”
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Aw! What’s the link? What virus does the file contain?
I got the same email telling me that my own email server had been upgrade!
I got the same email for my domain too!
Wow, they actually figured it out to point to a real OWA server. Before it was pointing to some page on ubuntu.com that didn’t exist. They are getting better with it these days.
@TGM: Hahaha, I don’t need this domain to be flagged as one that links to virii ;)
@Nix: The link had the right domain — they did a sneeky
ubuntu.com.domain.tld/foo/bar
but the link was actually an ubuntu.com/foo/bar ( masking the real href )
It could be a client side thing. I have an HTML viewing client, perhaps that could be it?
Good point. I looked up the virus and found this from mxlab: http://blog.mxlab.eu/2009/10/14/zbot-variant-masked-as-settings-file-for-ms-outlook/
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