Spam du jour

[lovingboth]

I quite like the evilness of this one - it purports to be the e-tickets for a performance of Peter Pan in Bournemouth in December and is accompanied by a genuine-looking booking confirmation, plus the obligatory dodgy PDF that isn't all that it seems.

If only they weren't sending multiple copies to people...

Comments

[djm4]

Yes, I got that one, too.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Given there was even a BBC News article on it, the perpetrators seem to've been quite successful. (Presumably the designers of genuine confirmations will be having to put some extra thought into how best to let people confirm this is the real thing.. not a simple matter!)

Was the payload in the "Acrobat" download? Bit surprised that'd be effective now, though - hasn't Windows been able to open PDFs out of the box for a while now?

Certainly, an imaginative alternative to the usual "this stock will skyrocket!" or "look like Aphrodite/Apollo in a month!" that seems to evade GMail's filtering. =:/