Spammers Are Playing Your Boss For A Sucker
Posted on: July 5th, 2007 by BompaIt’s not your ordinary email spam-scam.
Senior management is being targetted by email spam so precisely that their name and job title is in the Subject line of the email. One recent scam is has a word document attached title “Invoice”. Now, we know that senior management don’t actually handle invoices so they just forward to a subordinate with a note “take care of this asap”. Then the unsuspecting employee opens the attachment to inspect the invoice. Bam! Another trojan installed inside a corporate office.
dink
Ya. The upper echelon, and even mid-level, managers are sometimes sooo infected with tunnel vision.
Even my 84 year old uncle knows better than to open an email with an attachment without running it thru a virus scanner or two. Especially if he doesn’t know who it’s from.
A few years from now the top folks will have a lot more internet savvy. But so will the bad guys.
IrishWonder
For this to work, a spammer has to do his research really well to target the right people. But yea, provided he did his homework well this can work really good.
Adam C
I got this the other day, as did a few colleagues. It is surprisingly good… first time I’ve had spam with my full name and job title in it.
Rynert
Is it targetted? Or is it a case of pull the name from the e-mail and choose a random job title - send out millions and millions and you are bound to get a match with some…
cdc
Most people put their job titles in their email signature. Most websites have bios of their management and it would be fairly easy to guess their email addresses.
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