Today’s April Fool’s holiday gives spammers a chance to use the day to their advantage. Spammers have used the obvious keyword in the subject line of their spam messages to read “April Fool’s Day” drawing attention to internet users all over the world. The likelihood of a computer user opening an email titled “April Fool’s Day” on today’s date, which is April Fool’s day, is very common. The spammers know this and have jumped on the bandwagon of spamming people all over the internet.

Trend Micro, a security company, has already identified the spam messages as having an April Fool’s image which was taken from a simple Google image search using the keyword “April Fool’s Day”. The image is not original in the since that the spammer did not created it.

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Spam email messages usually mask as something newsworthy and popular to gain the attention of computer users. Recently a malicious spam alert was sent out for email messages containing the following subject lines:

• “Current Australia’s Prime Minister survived a hear attack”
• “The life of the Prime Minister is in grave danger”
• “Prime Minister survived a heard attack”

Usually Spam emails spread Trojan infections onto user’s computers. The purpose of the emails with the above phrases in the subject line is a focused attack against the Australian computer community. This is just one example of many other spam email subject lines. Other spam messages have used similar subject lines to gain the attention of computer users throughout the world.

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E-mail spammers have pulled out from their bag of viral tricks a new way to infect your machine with malicious software. In the past three months, SurfControl’s Global Threat Experts recorded a 30 percent increase in malicious e-mail threats.

According to Postini, an e-mail security company, their average 700,000 daily viral emails has increased to 35 million per day. Since July 2, Postini has seen about 275 million greeting card e-mails scam.

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