German spam

[scaeagles]

OK - I get spam like everyone else who uses email. But over the last week, I've been getting spam - 5 or 6 a day - in German. I don't speak German, and have no idea why I am getting German spam. Does this happen to anyone else?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Ich habe keine Idee, über was Sie sprechen.

[scaeagles]

Well, you may have no idea what I speak (thank you, free translations online), but I am wondering why this phenomena only started in the last week. I've been getting spam in English for years.

[Baileykat]

I've been getting it too! And in my inbox! I ususally don't get much spam...but it's been very frequent and it's German! Weird!

[Baileykat]

Shoot! Slow speed....double post!

[Mr. Fusion]

I'm getting it too, ugh. Filtering out email with the phrase "Lese selbst:" has helped a little though.

[CoasterMatt]

What is this spam you speak of?

[dsnylndmom]

I have been getting a TON of this over the last week also! It just bombarded me last week. :mad:

[CoasterMatt]

weird... I've never gotten spam, and I go to all sorts of weird sites.

[Kels]

It's a blasted worm article here (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/pcworld/20050516/tc_pcworld/120846)

E-mail users perplexed by the barrage of German-language spam waiting in their inboxes Monday morning can point the finger of blame at the latest version of the Sober mass mailing worm which began rapidly spreading over the weekend.Sober.q uses both German and English-language messages to direct recipients to Web sites with right-wing German nationalistic content, according to an advisory from e-mail security company MX Logic. One of the URLs points to the Web site of the right-wing German NPD party, it says.

The security firm says that it had seen over 125,000 instances of Sober.q overnight Saturday and into Sunday, and labeled it as a high severity threat. The variant is downloaded by computers already infected by the Sober.p worm, which began circulating earlier this month, MX Logic says. The virus writers appear to have remote control over the Sober.p infected machines, giving them a network from which to launch future spam and denial of service attacks, it adds.

Spreading Propoganda

The latest Sober variant is one of a relatively new type of "propaganda spam," meant to spread political messages rather than sell a product or service, MX Logic says. Circulation of the worm coincides with ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe and examples of subject lines it sends include "Dresden 1945" and "Du wirst zum Sklaven gemacht!!!" ("You are made slaves!!!"), according to MX Logic.

"We are certainly seeing more propaganda spam," says Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant with Sophos. Security researchers began detecting religious spam selling a particular view of life last year, Cluley says.

Although Sophos is seeing a lot of German-language spam sent by the new Sober variant, the worm itself doesn't appear to be spreading anymore, Cluley says.

E-mail users are advised to update their spam filters to guard against the new Sober spam.

[wendybeth]

weird... I've never gotten spam, and I go to all sorts of weird sites.

It's true- he does.
;)

[scaeagles]

Kels - you da' man (or da' wo-man, depending)! Thanks.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I've been getting it too. So POed about it, too. It keeps making it past my spam filter. What's most annoying is that it's propaganda. Arrrrrrr.

[€uroMeinke]

No Kraut Spam for me yet - it must recognize me as a national.

[Kels]

Kels - you da' man (or da' wo-man, depending)! Thanks.

that's wo-man. And, no problem. ;)

[CoasterMatt]

There's a worm in my Weinerschnitzel!

[Not Afraid]

So, instead of Spam, should we call it Schnitzel or Spaetzle?

[Kevy Baby]

So, instead of Spam, should we call it Schnitzel or Spaetzle?I was waiting for that :D

[jdramj]

I'm right there with all of you "German spam haters". I just noticed 2 days ago that the "password notification" e-mails had stopped. Figures.....

Being extremely German myself, I make no claim to this worm. They are best left in Tequila.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Great, German Propaganda... what is this 1942?

[cirquelover]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one getting these emails! I didn't know where I had gone that started them!

Thanks for the info, I'll pass it along to my husband.

[mhrc4]

www.mailfrontier.com

EVERYONE needs to use that, best SPAM filter on the market, PERIOD

[€uroMeinke]

Everyone just needs to annex the Sudetenland

[sleepyjeff]

Everyone just needs to annex the Sudetenland

oder Osteriech, bitte :D

[€uroMeinke]

Anschluß oder Tchuß

[jdramj]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one getting these emails! I didn't know where I had gone that started them!

Maybe it was that helping the drunk German walk game....thread (http://www.xenarchy.com/LoT/showthread.php?t=894)

[sleepyjeff]

Anschluß oder Tchuß

Wie bitte? Ich spreche keine Deutch. Ich mochte fahren Osteriech oder Swiezland aber Ich sprech keine Deutch und mein Deutch ist sehr schlect ;)

Ich glaube AnschluB :D

[Kels]

Wie bitte? Ich spreche keine Deutch. Ich mochte fahren Osteriech oder Swiezland aber Ich sprech keine Deutch und mein Deutch ist sehr schlect ;)

Ich glaube AnschluB :D

It's been ten years since I last stepped foot in german class and amazingly I actually understand what you said without having to use a fancy schmansy online translator. Hooray german class!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Altavista's Babelfish is having a tough time with your German ;)

[sleepyjeff]

Altavista's Babelfish is having a tough time with your German ;)

Like I said, I don't speak German ;) ; but I would like to travel to Austria and Switzerland ...but I don't speak German and my German is very bad :D

[sleepyjeff]

It's been ten years since I last stepped foot in german class and amazingly I actually understand what you said without having to use a fancy schmansy online translator. Hooray german class!

22 years for me. I took a half year of Spanish and then a half year of German......I know even less of the Spanish(even though my best friend in the World is from Cuba) then I do of the German :D

[Not Afraid]

Wie bitte? Ich spreche keine Deutch. Ich mochte fahren Osteriech oder Swiezland aber Ich sprech keine Deutch und mein Deutch ist sehr schlect ;)

Ich glaube AnschluB :D

Only 3 sips of coffee and I got it! Meine Deutsche is ser schlect, auch.

[Stan4dSteph]

This thread title makes me think of cans of Spam dressed in little Lederhosen, on vacation to climb the icy slopes of the Matterhorn...

[sleepyjeff]

Only 3 sips of coffee and I got it! Meine Deutsche is ser schlect, auch.

Danke. Ich bin mude ;)

[sleepyjeff]

This thread title makes me think of cans of Spam dressed in little Lederhosen, on vacation to climb the icy slopes of the Matterhorn...

I read this out load to my Wife but she mis-heard me and asked "what is Kansas Spam?"