Cyber-criminals Abuse Steve Jobs’ Demise by Sending Spam Mails

Researchers from Trend Micro the security company lament that despite the passing of some weeks, since Steve Jobs co-founder of Apple has died, spammers continue to exploit the unfortunate incident by distributing unsolicited e-mails canvassing a fake charitable organization that apparently honors Jobs. Blog.trendmicro.com published this on October 22, 2011.

Reportedly, after addressing the recipients in general, the spam mail announces Steve Jobs Charitable Foundation that requests assistance for budding and inexperienced web-coders. Most talented people of the younger generation are deprived of the scope for studying and giving life to their innovative ideas. Thus the Foundation, like the majority of famous innovators within the IT sector, encourages those persons who bear the courage for being unique as also work diligently towards enhancing the common man's quality of life.

Continuing further, the e-mail decisively invites the recipients to the Foundation and work for it even if their contributions are on a small scale. The message then adds that the Foundation will keep on dispatching its activity reports from time-to-time.

Here Trend Micro remarks that it is quite plain and simple to understand that even suppose Steve Jobs wished for aiding programmers, his method would not have been via sending out unsolicited e-mails to Internet users.

Moreover, describing the new spam mail, Trend Micro states that it uses plain text writing and seeks for convincing recipients towards making monetary donations into an account the message indicates. Nevertheless, the company discovered that the account in reality is for a payment website that serves a casino online. Gmanews.tv reported this on October 23, 2011.

Trend Micro adds that users who comply with the request, instead of helping any young individual, actually contribute money to the online profit-hungry miscreants' poker account.

Furthermore, according to the company, similar to all spam mails, the current one too has spelling mistakes like in the caption "Raise money for Steve Jobs Charity Fond!"

Hence Trend Micro emphatically urges Internet-users for knowing about such spam mails, while never reveal vital info on unfamiliar websites. Also, they should erase such unsolicited messages while certainly not open them or follow web-links given inside them.

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