The recession-oriented spamlimes are pretty predictable, playing off variations of tough times, discounts and tight money. The sorts of things that, one hopes, you and your employees and staff are already all too aware of, and aware of the need to avoid.
For those who don't avoid the come-ons, though, the links in the spam message are tricky. Rather than directly steering users to the spammers' site -- the specific link to which may have been indexed by the search engine, as well as being recognized and blocked by anti-spamware -- but to a search engine, from which the user is quided to click on search results that, in turn, take them to the spammers' sites.
Another approach, in other words, to getting around anti-spam defenses.
Whether or not this approach proves effective -- spammers don't try things because they think they won't work -- it offers a good starting point for reminding your employees of the spam basics:
Don't open unsolicited mail
Don't fall for subject lines aimed at getting you to open unsolicited mail
Don't click on links in unsolicited mail you shouldn't have opened but did because you fell for a subject line you should have been wary of
The sorts of things, in other words, that "everybody" knows -- and if they did, then even new techniques and recession-oriented spam wouldn't get any results at all.
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