Amazon Rain Forest Weight Loss Spam Now Accounting For 10% Of Spam

Acai is a small berry from the Amazon rain forest filled with antioxidants and believed to be potent agent of weight loss.

Cutwail botnet believed behind the rain forest campaign

Cutwail botnet believed behind the rain forest campaign

It also is at the heart of a fraudulent spam campaign accounting for as much as 10 percent of spam coursing across the Internet.

According to MessageLabs, part of Symantec, the swarm has increased over the past two months from about 5 percent of worldwide volume to a peak of 10 percent.

It appears to be coming from the Cutwail network of botnets, and it links people by way of several URLs to a Russian Web site.

The spam messages tout a concoction called Acai Power Slim and direct a victim to a site where a special offer is available.

The power of the Cutwail botnet is obviously astonishing.

One Response to Amazon Rain Forest Weight Loss Spam Now Accounting For 10% Of Spam

  1. Great information thanks for getting this out there for people like me to read.

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