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<\/a>Types of spam in Eugene Kaspersky\u2019s mail<\/p><\/div>\n
In second place were phishing attempts to extract Eugene\u2019s personal information.<\/p>\n
In third place were advance-fee scams \u2014 messages claiming to be from the lawyers of alleged relatives and other far-flung benefactors hoping to share millions of dollars with him.<\/p>\n
Common business spam<\/h2>\n
Unsolicited advertising for B2B services and events is a fairly harmless form of spam. Many e-mails in this category are genuine commercial offers, invitations to conferences, and the like.<\/p>\n
Some of them might even be of interest to Eugene\u2019s colleagues, but he himself usually only attends major industry events. Besides, he couldn\u2019t process so many business proposals even if that was all he ever did with his time. Therefore, such messages end up in the spam folder.<\/p>\n
Business spam is often personalized: the authors stress that the offer is unique to the Kaspersky CEO and refer to him by name. But that does not redeem them in the eyes of the spam filter.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Some business spammers address Eugene Kaspersky by name<\/p><\/div>\n
Among the B2B messages, however, are some that look more like spam proper than misdirected proposals. For example, the authors of the e-mail in the screenshot below warn Eugene that this is his last chance to register for a webinar. They\u2019re obviously hoping to create a sense of urgency.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Pressing Eugene Kaspersky to register for a webinar<\/p><\/div>\n
Phishing<\/h2>\n
The personal data of top-level managers is highly prized, so Eugene gets far more phishing spam than other users. For example, the message below looks like a voicemail notification<\/a>. Unsurprisingly, to listen to it, Eugene would have to enter his account credentials.<\/p>\n Fake voicemail notification<\/p><\/div>\n Eugene also gets more advance-fee scam e-mails than the average user. The offers include not only inheritances, but also, for example, the payment of alleged substantial debts owed to his company. Most likely, the fraudsters hope that the CEO of a global company will think nothing of paying a small amount up front to engage an intermediary, which is what such messages usually boil down to.<\/p>\n Scammers promise to pay $15 million owed to Kaspersky (the company)<\/p><\/div>\n Another type of spam worth mentioning is e-mails about raising money for supposedly sick relatives. Why supposedly? Well, a search for the card number for receiving donations<\/a> revealed that its owner had a dozen sick children and an entire menagerie of ailing animals. As a company that supports many charity projects<\/a>, we know how to evaluate them.<\/p>\n Another thing that winds up in Eugene\u2019s spam is outright blackmail. But whereas the average user is commonly threatened with the disclosure of personal secrets<\/a>, our CEO is menaced with threats of data leakage. Here\u2019s one such example: \u201cYour computer was infected by my team and we were able to access both it and your data. If you want everything to remain secret, we strongly recommend that you transfer $200 to our bitcoin wallet.\u201d<\/p>\n There was, of course, no infection.<\/p>\n A separate category of spam in Eugene\u2019s mailbox is made up of messages that we usually call \u201ce-mails from strange people.\u201d These are messages in which the sender spills their guts, goes overboard with the threats (respond-or-the-puppy-gets-it style), or makes what they clearly think is a great offer.<\/p>\n For example, among other things, we found an e-mail entitled \u201cHomeless people will go to jail instead of you\u201d and offering Eugene, the head of a major international company, a fake passport.<\/p>\n Some tech lover told our CEO that an inventor from Kentucky created something that had even the White House aflutter:<\/p>\n News of an invention that alarmed the Trump administration<\/p><\/div>\n Meanwhile, the author of this next message fears that someone is stealing his data through mobile TV and various radio frequencies, and confuses our head with a competitor.<\/p>\n Eugene Kaspersky is asked for help in his capacity as CEO of Malwarebytes<\/p><\/div>\n The imagination of some supplicants is enviable, but that does not save their carefully crafted compositions from the jaws of the spam folder.<\/p>\n Like any popular topic, the coronavirus pandemic was and is a spam magnet. In Eugene\u2019s spam folder, we found ads for masks, personal ventilators, virus-related online seminars and conferences, and much more.<\/p>\n<\/a>\u201cNigerian\u201d spam<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Fundraising<\/h2>\n
Ransomware<\/h2>\n
E-mails from strange people<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/a>Coronavirus spam<\/h2>\n