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Global spam trends reveal a taste for text, drugs and eBay E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Phishing trends, meanwhile, continue to show growth for spoofed banks and targeted client attacks. "Primarily, forged elements belong to the US financial organizations, while the possible victims are now native English speakers who reside in the US, UK or Canada, although last weeks BitDefender's researchers received several notifications about ongoing attacks from Spain, Italy and France" BitDefender told us.

The Top 10 list of counterfeit business identities in the first half of 2008 includes:

  1. eBay
  2. Paypal
  3. Bank of America
  4. Wachovia
  5. Fifth Third Bank
  6. NatWest
  7. Poste Italiane
  8. Sparkasse
  9. Regions Bank
  10. Volksbank

"Spammers and phishers continue to improve their skills in replicating and forging legitimate message characteristics. However, the simple text e-mails proved their efficiency as well, rounding up the total figure of ID theft victims to 50,000 each month," said Vlad Valceanu, Head of BitDefender Antispam Research Lab.

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