John Hillman reads through McAfee’s spam report and discovers that watches are the new viagra

McAfee Spam report for July 2009 shows a marked difference between spam subjects delivered to .com and .uk addresses.

The UK domain addresses continue to deliver pharmaceutical spam subjects almost exclusively, with all of the top 15 subjects relating to this subject, whereas the .com traffic showed a curious tendency towards replica Rolexes.

.org showed a large amount of spam that had been “bounced back” to a forged “From” address, with one subject “you have received an Greeting eCard” (note the usual poor spelling) pointing to a URL that downloads an executable file and infects the computer.

Based on business and country domains and taken over one complete day in June the lists are as follows:

.com

1. Hello
2. Hi
3. RE: DISCOUNT 80% OFF on Pfizer
4. Replica Watches
5. Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
6. Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
7. Returned mail: see transcript for details
8. Exquisite Replica
9. Aloha
10. Failure notice
11. Hey
12. Cheers
13. Watches
14. Complete registration here
15. Subscribe on daily news?

.co.uk

1. RE: DISCOUNT 80% OFF on Pfizer
2. Salute, man!
3. All songs zipped
4. Photo gallery
5. Court decision
6. Photos of the place
7. Group these photos together
8. New .pdf variant
9. I’m locked in room
10. Can’t call you
11. Corporate meeting
12. Your house switched off
13. What’s with bar?
14. Add this to work
15. Wondering about slow speed?

.org

1. Delivery Status Notification (Delay)
2. Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
3. failure notice
4. Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
5. Hello
6. Hi
7. Returned mail: see transcript for details
8. RE: DISCOUNT 80% OFF on Pfizer
9. Replica Watches
10. Exquisite Replica
11. Mail delivery failed; returning message to sender
12. Hey
13. Watches
14. Cheers
15. You have received a Greeting eCard

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