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Dada/Surrealist Spam Hits Again

The involuntary literary messages strike back.

It looks like the dada spam campaigns are on the wave again, this time advertising replica jewelry and weight loss drugs.

The current unsolicited messages are based on a simple template that employs a picture of the promoted (counterfeit) products and a collage of lines (gibberish pulled from what seems to be the diary of an Irish aficionado) acting as a single huge hyperlink towards the Web sites that allegedly sell the imitations.

Along with the involuntary poetic effect, it is also worth mentioning that the Web sites behind are renowned for their association with fraud schemes. Both Acai Elite (also known as Vital Acai, Acai Berry Boom, and, probably, under some other names and aliases) and Diamond Replicas (just as the "blingalicious" King Replica) belong to a domain registered in Korea.

The large amount of spam, the Web site addresses, which do not hold an association with the Web site names, as well as the missing security elements for the on-line transactions validation (no HTTP over encrypted SSL or TLS when proceeding to check out) are clear marks of the scams that run behind, most probably dealing with money and sensitive data theft (credit card number, name and home address, phone number and e-mail address etc.).