| Trojan Spam Storm Hits Inboxes: Emails Pose As Breaking News Stories.
Wakefield, MA - infoZine - Experts at SophosLabs, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have warned of a widespread spam campaign that poses as a breaking news report, but is really an attempt to lure innocent computer users into being infected by a Trojan horse and attacked by hackers. The distribution has been so widespread that since midnight GMT the Trojan has accounted for over two thirds of all malware reports seen at Sophos's global network of monitoring stations, accounting for an infection rate of 1 in 200 of all emails being sent across the net. Subject lines used in the malicious emails include, but may not limited to, the following: 230 dead as storm batters Europe. British Muslims Genocide Naked teens attack home director. A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and kill again! U.S.
Contract killer spam scam hits the net
Scammers are posing as professional hit men in a bid to frighten punters into handing over large sums of money. Spam emails promoting the scheme claim that the recipient has been stalked by a hired assassin for ten days, but that the killer is prepared to drop the contract if he is paid a total of $80,000. Recipients are told that an up-front payment of $20,000 will produce taped evidence of the contract to kill the email recipient. .
Monty Python's SPAMALOT Opens at Wynn Las Vegas Starring John O ...
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- 1969 is remembered as the year that man walked on the moon; Elvis Presley took up residency in Las Vegas; and Monty Python's Flying Circus first aired on BBC television. 2007 will go down in the history books as the year that the inspired lunacy of Monty Python came to The Grail Theater at Wynn Las Vegas with the smash hit show Monty Python's SPAMALOT. With SPAMALOT, Eric Idle has created a deliriously funny live spectacle which tells the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and their quest for the Holy Grail. The show features lusty maidens, dancing divas, a killer rabbit and the only legless knight appearing on the Las Vegas Strip. Monty Python's SPAMALOT will star John O'Hurley, best known as J.
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