In last month’s State of Spam report, Symantec discussed the early signs of holiday spam that contained messages related to Halloween and Christmas. In September, researchers at Symantec intercepted multiple attempts by spammers to hijack the subject of Halloween festivities in an attempt at grabbing personal information from email users, as well as selling online meds.
You can read the rest of this Blog here: Halloween Spiriting Up Holiday Spam.
Note: I'd just like to make clear that this will be happening all over the World and is not just limited to the U.S..
Message Edited by Floating_Red on 10-05-2009 11:53 PM