Swine Flu Hits Inboxes

"Swine flu in Hollywood!", "Salma Hayek caught swine flu!", "US swine flu statistics", "First US swine flu victims!", "Will swine flu attack USA?", "Madonna caught swine flu!", "NY Victims of swine flu", "Swine flu worldwide" are just some examples of those titles that should arouse the interest of the recipients, as you can see in the screenshots below.

Behind them, nothing else than a single line plain text messages and a link directing to an alleged China registered Web page, which, in fact, opens a .com Web site selling drugs, as you can see below.

"This is one of the all-time favorite spamming schemes - exploiting breaking news or hot topics that fuel curiosity as a social engineering technique. As the situation will probably escalate, we expect to see an increase of the spam amount revolving around this subject in the weeks to come", said Vlad Vâlceanu, Head of BitDefender Antispam Research Lab.