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Mp3 Stock Spam

Date: 18.10.2007, Tumbleweed Message Protection Lab

After Image files, PDF files, Excel files and FDF files, spammers are no longer hoping you'll read their message, they are hoping you'll hear it.


"Hello, this is an investor alert..." a computer-generated voice begins and then proceeds giving you details about the latest ticker symbol that's expected to achieve "amazing growth." It's the usual "pump and dump" scheme - a ticker symbol, some 'exciting' news from the latest company press release and an invitation to act now - but in a different format.


The messages themselves have random or no subjects and an empty body. With a size of over 50KB, this multimedia spam messages(and we expect to see other audio formats soon) are at least twice as big as an average Image Spam message.

The mp3 attachments have random, one word file names and no IDE3 tags.


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