SPAMfighter Consumer Alert (http://www.spamfighter.com/Download_Download.asp) messages are now accounting for more and more of the spam mail being sent out.
"Recently we, along with a number of our customers, noticed that spammers have already moved on from PDF and image spam to a new form of tricking people into receiving unwanted mail by
using MP3 spam," said Alix Aranza, Managing Director of SPAMfighter North America. "MP3 spam is very difficult for most filters to stop, however, using our community based approach we
have already blocked this latest form of spam mail for our entire community," added Aranza.
MP3 files being sent with spam mails are named to appeal to the readers, tricking them into opening the file. Some names being used are those of famous artists such as "snoop.mp3", and
"bbrown.mp3". Other MP3 files are named to appeal to the interest of users such as "vmail.mp3" and "funnyduck.mp3". Once opened, users hear a low-quality advertisement for penny stocks.
The main concern with the MP3 files is the size. With some mails being as large as 173 KB, these are the largest forms of spam mail to ever have landed in users' inboxes, taking up a more
significant amount of memory space and bandwidth.
SPAMfighter (www.spamfighter.com
SPAMfighter North America is based in Boca Raton, Florida and is headed by Alix Aranza.
SPAMfighter is debt-free and is 100 per cent financed by income from the sale of the SPAMfighter client. Each day, SPAMfighter removes around 19 million spam messages from 22 million
tested emails received by over 4 million users in 216 countries/regions.
For more information, contact Martin Thorborg, SPAMfighter ApS, Nattergalevej 6, DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark. Phone: +45 7022 1551 Fax (Europe): +45 3323 0376 or Alix Aranza Phone
(USA) +1 (561) 962-4166 Fax (USA) +1 (561) 962-4266