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<blockquote data-quote="HereWeGoAgain" data-source="post: 29510" data-attributes="member: 3485"><p>You'd be surprised how many people respond.</p><p></p><p>One email spam scam is for a criminal hacker or gang to build a "bot net" by releasing little programs, "bots", to hop from computer to computer on the net. The infected computers are dormant until the master of the net (the hacker who unleashed the bots) activates it, then they pump out spam emails pushing some obscure "penny stock". The master buys up a bunch of the stock the day before, through fronts, then when people respond to the hot tip the price goes up and the scammer sells out at a big profit. The emails have that strange fuzzy look because they are not text files but <em>pictures</em> of text - it's a different format that can't be as readily deciphered as text code.</p><p></p><p>The effectiveness of the scam depends on some small percentage of people to be gullible enough to buy the stock in the belief that some anonymous emailer would send them a hot tip out of the blue.</p><p></p><p>A Russian gang was busted last year that had built some huge network, thousands upon thousands of hijacked machines. The actual virus does not do any damage to the host computer, it just uses it to pump out messages to addresses harvested from the owner's email address book. The user never even realizes that anything happened.</p><p></p><p> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet" target="_blank">Bot net</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HereWeGoAgain, post: 29510, member: 3485"] You'd be surprised how many people respond. One email spam scam is for a criminal hacker or gang to build a "bot net" by releasing little programs, "bots", to hop from computer to computer on the net. The infected computers are dormant until the master of the net (the hacker who unleashed the bots) activates it, then they pump out spam emails pushing some obscure "penny stock". The master buys up a bunch of the stock the day before, through fronts, then when people respond to the hot tip the price goes up and the scammer sells out at a big profit. The emails have that strange fuzzy look because they are not text files but [i]pictures[/i] of text - it's a different format that can't be as readily deciphered as text code. The effectiveness of the scam depends on some small percentage of people to be gullible enough to buy the stock in the belief that some anonymous emailer would send them a hot tip out of the blue. A Russian gang was busted last year that had built some huge network, thousands upon thousands of hijacked machines. The actual virus does not do any damage to the host computer, it just uses it to pump out messages to addresses harvested from the owner's email address book. The user never even realizes that anything happened. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet"]Bot net[/url] [/QUOTE]
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