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Information Technology News Spam uses John Howard heart attack as phishing bait | Spam uses John Howard heart attack as phishing bait |
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| Written by Angus Kidman | |
| Monday, 19 February 2007 | |
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"The Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard have survived a heart attack," the message ungrammatically claims, before adding that "the best surgeons of Australia are struggling for his life". The entirely fake message, dated February 18, also includes a large chunk of incomplete text apparently lifted from an online biography of Howard. The phishing scam attempts to redirect visitors to a site which claims to be for the newspaper The Australian, but which was actually registered in Canada on February 14 this year. Contact emails for the site consist of a series of nonsense characters,
News-driven tactics have become increasingly common, as phishers seek to convince users that their messages are valid. Recent examples have included the US Superbowl and storms in Europe as topics. Many phishing mails direct users to sites which install trojan software which can take over their PCs and be used to form botnets for the further sending of spam.
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