We’ve monitored a great deal of Christmas sales spam (in English) for the upcoming holiday. Compared to English holiday spam, Chinese spammers seem to have fewer activities for Christmas, most likely because it is not a major holiday in the Chinese calendar. The Christmas holiday is popular among younger Chinese generations, however, and shopping for gifts is still expected. We have observed a couple of notable Chinese samples covering the topic of Christmas shopping. In the first sample, a spammer has sent a random Christmas sales ad, and we found that the spammer purposely set the promotion text background color in gray (<FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: gray" color=gray>); you have to highlight the gray line in order to see the promotion text. In the header we observed a forged and randomized “From” alias. They used a shortened URL service in the body image, which led to an actual business website.
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