Author Archives: MagicMail

Parking/Speeding Ticket? Scam Emails Targeting Canadians

Posted on May 19, 2017 by MagicMail

While we are not sure if they are targeting everyone, or if Canadians are being specially targeted, but on the heels of the recent Parking Ticket scams they are now sending out Fake Speeding ticket spam. And while we can’t … Continue reading →

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Fake Law Firm Invoices

Posted on February 8, 2017 by MagicMail

Today’s article is about another round of fake law firm invoices. (Don’t open them, ransom ware and virus payloads). Now, typically they ‘should’ all be going to your spam folders, as the majority of them are coming from non-email servers, … Continue reading →

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Weird Science

Posted on January 18, 2017 by MagicMail

While I always loved that show, like any teen geek growing up, I mean what teen age male would not like to build a perfect g/f, however today’s blog is about the abuse of .science domains. Like many of the … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year – ColoCrossing

Posted on January 3, 2017 by MagicMail

To all of us in the spam protection and/or spam auditing game, want to wish everyone a happy 2017. Of course, I wish I had better news and that our jobs will be easier this year, but it looks like … Continue reading →

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Holiday Spammers in FullSwing

Posted on November 24, 2016 by MagicMail

No, Ray-ban isn’t spamming you, but amazing the power of Spammers. And no, you should NOT be buying SunGlasses from this Fellow. Today’s big alert is regarding a whole /19 of IP addresses to be wary of. Subject: No Joke:You’ll … Continue reading →

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NetGear Equipment? Check your networks

Posted on October 24, 2016 by MagicMail

The recent jump in spam attacks from ISP customers worldwide has spiked again, so we decided to do a little more digging. Much of the ‘ransomware’ spam has been sent in this manner, and while most email servers should be … Continue reading →

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The IRS did not send you this.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by MagicMail

The recent increase in BOT generated spam is VERY good at social engineering, and while fortunately most of it can be blocked using very simple spam protection rules, unfortunately the payload can be VERY painful, eg RansomWare or CryptoLocker pay … Continue reading →

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Election Time in the US, let the spam wars begin!

Posted on August 5, 2016 by MagicMail

One of the toughest jobs for spam auditors is when “one man’s spam is another man’ reading material”, and never is it more apparent than during election times in the US. Today, Hillary Clinton’s campaign started used ‘Exact Target’ to … Continue reading →

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What is happening at Unified Layer?

Posted on July 20, 2016 by MagicMail

It is always unusual when some of the larger hosting companies generate too much spam, as you would expect them to have a stronger handle on it. Unified Layer has had many challenges over the last year, but we are … Continue reading →

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Is IPv4 Space REALLY in short supply? Spammer

Posted on June 29, 2016 by MagicMail

Maybe it just is not being used for the right purposes.. Last night we looked at our logs and tracking and noticed a new prolific spammer. Those of us in the industry to realize that there has been a very … Continue reading →

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