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Cyber-criminals Abuse Steve Jobs’ Demise by Sending Spam Mails PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 02 November 2011 08:00

Researchers from Trend Micro the security company lament that despite the passing of some weeks, since Steve Jobs co-founder of Apple has died, spammers continue to exploit the unfortunate incident by distributing unsolicited e-mails canvassing a fake charitable organization that apparently honors Jobs. Blog.trendmicro.com published this on October 22, 2011.


Reportedly, after addressing the recipients in general, the spam mail announces Steve Jobs Charitable Foundation that requests assistance for budding and inexperienced web-coders. Most talented people of the younger generation are deprived of the scope for studying and giving life to their innovative ideas. Thus the Foundation, like the majority of famous innovators within the IT sector, encourages those persons who bear the courage for being unique as also work diligently towards enhancing the common man's quality of life.

Continuing further, the e-mail decisively invites the recipients to the Foundation and work for it even if their contributions are on a small scale. The message then adds that the Foundation will keep on dispatching its activity reports from time-to-time.

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