Dear Bloxx (and InfoSec)

I've asked your company several times now, both via phone and via email, to STOP spamming and cold-calling me. The last cold-call was less than 20 mins ago, and I asked her to put in a report to the company CEO regarding it. As I suspect the report isn't going to get to the Bloxx CEO, let us see if this reaches you ....

STOP SPAMMING ME!

Oh and to the chaps responsible for InfoSec, perhaps next

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Blackhat SEO: edisonresearch.co.uk + domain-parking.net (aka freeparking.co.uk)

Many criminals attempt blackhat SEO, most in attempts to push up the value of their domains prior to selling them. Others, in an attempt to boost their value to prospective advertisers.

Unfortunately in this case, it appears the owner of edisonresearch.co.uk, has chosen to try and use the vURL server, to boost their domains value. They've done this by pointing the A record for the domain, to the

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Fake meds spoofing IMDB

Looks like it's the turn of the IMDB to be spoofed. Same gang responsible, not surprisingly.



Return-Path:
Delivered-To: [REMOVED]
X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Score: 14.747
X-Spam-Level: **************
X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=14.747 tagged_above=-9999 required=1.3
tests=[BAYES_50=0.8, DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24=3.199,
DKIM_ADSP_NXDOMAIN=0.9, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001,

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Fake meds spam spoofing Microsoft

Looks like the fake meds gang have started to spoofing Microsoft too. I've received 5 of these bad boys so far, nothing particularly special about them, and they're certainly nowhere near convincing, which in itself is unusual (those impersonating Microsoft previously, whether leading to fake meds or malware, have usually been a lot more convincing than this).

They've included individual URLs so

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hpHosts: Updated 7th June 2012

This is an interim update due to reports indicating some have been having difficulty with the last full file update.

The hpHOSTS Hosts file has been updated. There is now a total of 186,474 listed hostsnames.If you are NOT using the installer, please read the included Readme.txt file for installation instructions. Enjoy! :)Latest Updated: 07/06/2012 01:15Last Verified: 01/06/2012 02:00/li>

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ALERT: Using LinkedIn? Change your password asap!

If you're using LinkedIn, you'll want to change your password asap folks. It would seem miscreants have compromised the LinkedIn databases;

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/06/06/millions-of-linkedin-passwords-reportedly-leaked-take-action-now/

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Alert: Fake meds spam impersonating Digg

Not content with fake meds and exploit etc spam impersonating the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google and countless others, it seems the fake meds gangs have decided to impersonate Digg now too. Quite why is a bit puzzling, but likely "just because they can". If like me, you have email only displayed in plain text, then you'll see what it is and where its taking you, straight away, else the

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