Advance Fee Fraud Scammer Surprisingly On-Target

[tfofurn]

When I turned my computer on this morning, the Gmail notifier ran through my unread messages. I was very surprised to see one from "Rodney McCoy". Could it be? My Mother goes to Rodney McCoy performances regularly. Maybe his next show would line up with my next trip to Pittsburgh, so she used his web site to send me an email

Comments

[alynch]

You'd be surprised at the techniques the spammers use, and how sophisticated the systems are.

Nowadays, they don't just buy lists of working email addresses, they buy email addresses with lists of keywords, names, etc, that can be used to bypass Bayesian filtering systems, and even trick people into opening the message. Its creepy effective.

A lot of times, this data originates from trojans or malware on a users system.

[tfofurn]

Argh. There is, of course, no way to know who has the malware.