ABSTRACT
For example, one e-mail that recently made it through VeriSign’s sophisticated spam filters reads as follows:
(is e-mail from a “James Klint” had a return e-mail address of: [mailto:Stephen@ lansheng.net] dated April 1, 2007. e subject line says: “Job Alert From WC AG Inc.”)
Given that legitimate companies tend not to spam out job offers or ask for applicants’ bank accounts, this seems like an obvious attempt to recruit “money mules.” However, its language is much more sophisticated and convincing than most money mule spam. Although it still contains a healthy amount of typos, its description of the company and of the responsibilities the position entails seem fairly professional. is spam appears to be a variant of an earlier spam e-mail that contained the same verbiage, but with a different sender’s name and company.* Interestingly, both of the “companies” cited in these spam e-mails purport to be German. Another interesting feature of this scam is that it does not provide a link to the “company’s” Web site — even though this might make recipients less likely to believe that the offer is genuine, it also makes it more difficult to track down the people behind the scam.
