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New Flavour of Spam - MP3 Stock Scams
An anonymous reader writes "Spammers are back with a new trick, this time round sending messages with MP3 attachments that contain the latest pump-and-dump stock scams. One sample identified by Sophos was a heavily distorted 30-second MP3 file. A synthetic female voice was used to promote a particular stock. Says Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos: 'Although the spammers seem to have a fair bit to learn about machine-generated sales patter, some companies might consider blocking all MP3s in email as a matter of course. So many music files infringe copyright, and it can be hard for a company to establish which ones are legal and which are not after they have arrived. Blocking MP3s, or at least quarantining until requested by the user, can be a good way for a company to take a proactive stance against the use of email for illegal file sharing. It also has the benefit of neutralizing this sort of spam at the same time.'"
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See my earlier posting, (tin foil hat on) this is just one step to justify the war against copyright infringement. They have proven that the copyright terrorists are using our vastly superior email systems to commit their atrocities. We'll just get ISP's to block all MP3's by proving that when attached to emails, MP3 files can only be spam or terrorist activities. Once we have that filtering in place, the 'people' will be happy that we are protecting them from the evils of copyright terroristas.
Then we can pressure Cisco et al to put this al-gore-ithm in the routers (tube control points) so we can monitor more Intarweb traffic than ever before.
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I was just going to suggest this! Bastards!
Maybe we should just start taking a supremely draconian stance on this. Someone comes down to the police station saying that all their money is gone because some email scammer stole it? Shoot them in the head. Then use their bank records to track down the scammer, and shoot them in the head, too. If you can't find the scammer, that's okay. Soon enough their pool of victims will dry up due to head/bullet related activities.
You'd think this wouldn't work, because people would stop coming down to the police station because they heard people were getting shot in the head. But then again, you'd also think that email scams wouldn't work because people keep hearing about other people getting ripped off by email scams. Those people will fall for anything. The cops can just send out an email about it. "Got ripped off by a scammer? Come down for free $$$! No h3ad shotz for sure!"
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