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Hackers exploit people fears of diseases and spread spam emails that encourage recipients to visit a fake website that allegedly offers vaccinations to protect them against the virus that causes swine flu.

This spam email appears to be from the U.S centers for disease control. The email directs the recipients to a fake website that looks like an official website, which requests users to fill out a vaccination form. This malicious site immediately downloads malware to the users’ PCs. This malware allow the hackers to take control over the users’ PCs and use them to commit identity theft, turn the users’ PCs into spam servers, attack other PCs and much more.

Hackers usually use topics that are at the top of the news in order to scam innocent users.
Be cautious, don’t open or download attachments or click links from an unknown sender.

Facebook was awarded $711M in damages against the convicted spammer Sanford Wallace.
Sanford Wallace was sued by Facebook in February along with Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw for engaging in a phishing and spamming scam that compromised many Facebook accounts.
The spammers were accused of sending spam emails to Facebook members that linked to external websites that harvest their accounts details. They took control over these members’ Facebook accounts and used them to send spam emails and wall posts to their friends. These spam emails and wall posts either linked to external websites that harvest their Facebook account details or linked to commercial websites that paid spammers for referrals.
In addition to the judgement, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has sent a request to the U.S. Attorney’s Office to prosecute Wallace for criminal contempt, so he may face jail time.
Facebook is not pursuing claims against Arzoomanian and Shaw.