That MP3 In Your Inbox May Be From The Hot New Band H3rb4l V!4gra
Well, not yet. But PC Magazine is reporting that stock spammers have taken the initiative and are bulk-mailing MP3s that have stock tips buried within. The files have innocuous names like santana.mp3, sayyousayme.mp3 (!), or smashingpumpkins.mp3, and users who double-click on the files expecting to hear the sweet vocals of Lionel Richie are, instead, treated to “a distorted female voice advising listeners to invest in a certain stock”–the idea being that the touting will inflate the stock’s price. So who’s going to be the guy who takes this to the next level and slaps a backbeat on the stock-touting before sending it out to MP3 bloggers as “the next hot thing” from Chile or Brazil? Because you know that there would be at least a few people out there who would fall for that trick.
The Hot New Spam Type: MP3s [PC Magazine]
