Social-Engineering Spam

Over the last few days, I’ve noticed a resurgence of spam email – but this time the email subjects are quite clever.

Bearing in mind the closeness of the Festering Season, it strikes me as an intelligent move to have email subjects such as “Order details” (and various mis-spellings thereof) and “Your account was blocked!”. At this time of year, it’s subject lines like this that will make people click on the emails, and then (possibly) on the links in those emails.

Of course, it’s still dead easy to spot spam mails – not least because they come from sites you’ve never ever visited – and even easier to type the address yourself into the web browser, rather than following any link from an email, but that’s something that requires awareness. (And as we all know, that lack of awareness is exactly why some people do fall victim to these emails, spams, and scams)

But all the same, I can be slightly more understanding if someone were to click on an email saying “Order details” and then click through links than if the email subject were, for example, something like “Its workss!” (another one I’ve had a lot of recently)