Spammers too Find Politician Romney’s Name Most Advantageous

A recent spam survey having the title "Most Mentioned Politician" by BitDefender shows that ex-governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney, who's got the maximum votes entailing him for being the prospective U.S presidential candidate from the Republican Party, is as well spammers' most favorite politician for target. Romney's name emerges within 45% of the spam mails on American politics. The conclusion by BitDefender follows the company's analysis of 8m unsolicited e-mails distributed during January 2012.

Intriguingly, the name of Romney is getting particularly utilized within scam e-mails which tout loans (at low interests), non-chargeable credit monitoring alternatively methods for cutting consumers' energy costs. However, the majority of these presentations divert unwitting end-users onto scam-based polling websites alternatively knockoff pills that boost sexual potency.

Moreover the above web-links connect to fresh e-mails' segments so the original e-mails will appear more credible, while simultaneously dodge spam filters, which seek web-link counts opposed to other phrases within the messages.

Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich's name, competitor of Romney appears within 33% of likewise spam outbreaks that tout loans at high interests along with miracle gadgets, which if attached to an outlet, remarkably bring down energy bills.

Furthermore, following Romney and Gingrich, the 3rd hopeful candidate from US Republican Party is Ron Paul appearing in 12.18% of the spam campaigns. Other favorite politicians besides those leading in the Republican competition who've drawn spammers' notice during 2012 are Bill Clinton (3.99%) and Rick Santorum (3.65%), the security company adds.

Remarking about these fascinating results, Chief Security Researcher Catalin Cosoi at BitDefender stated that the presidential contenders weren't the least directly connected with the unsolicited, junk e-mails since the mentioned quotes were picked out of news media and copied to the spam messages for making the latter seem more authentic. Http://technorati.com published this on February 20, 2012.

Cosoi reported that the spam emanated from botnets that functioned automatically.

According to him, the threat could best be stopped with spam filters. Cosoi cautioned that alongside e-mail, spam outbreaks with vicious web-links and destructive software were being launched via social-networking websites too; therefore users required resetting their privacy configurations for warding off such web-links.

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