Comments on: “CNN – The Daily Top 10″ Email Spam Leads To Spoof Sites

By: b-train

b-train — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:07:23 +0000

You get your news from FOX, and you click links in e-mails you didn’t subscribe to. I sense more than a tenuous connection here.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:29:52 +0000

I think these spammers have just about everyone’s email addresses – just about anyone we know is getting this spam… including myself.

By: Frank Paolino

Frank Paolino — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:47:38 +0000

This is a new twist on “headline spam”, where they try to get you to open it due to the headlines. I guess the crazy headlines (see IBM files for Bankruptcy at http://blog.maysoft.org/blog.nsf/d6plinks/FPAO-7H3J2L )
were not getting the “action” they desired.

Spammers reinvent themselves daily. I cannot count the number of times I had to investigate a legitimate message wondering if it was some new spam technique!

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:28:11 +0000

I have been getting these e-mails for weeks now and can’t get rid of them. Glad I didn’t click on any of the links.

By: James

James — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:51:05 +0000

You get your main news from fox. you must be kidding me.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:53:19 +0000

Ahh driving me crazy. I went to unsubscribe and it told me to sign up, but i had to get rid of it so i did but once i did there was no way to unsubscribe from emails, it says click the link in the email in the help section which took me to the sign in page. Ahhhh going in circles!!%$#%$!

By: Ramondo Stallings

Ramondo Stallings — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:41:51 +0000

I am also getting these emails and I knew there was something not right because usually when CNN sends something in the from section it says something.cnn.com or something like that but in the sent section there was this – CNN Alerts tnengias1969 @ holynames-sea.org…what? That was a huge red flag for me.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:02:51 +0000

I’ve been getting these too, and like others here I tried to unsub, to no avail. The spam keeps coming, so that’s when I googled “CNN spam,” and found this thread. Thanks for the clarification.

By: Eriq

Eriq — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:03:43 +0000

I too have started receiving this spam as of one week ago. It’s highly frustrating, usually receiving a “CNN Daily Top 10″ email every 20-30 minutes. By the end of the day I’ll have 30 CNN Top 10 emails unless I’m cleaning up the inbox frequently.

I’ve never clicked on any of the story links (I don’t even look at them because I know they’re bad links) but I did hover my mouse over the unsubscribe link to see where it was going to. And indeed the unsubscribe link goes to CNN’s real website, like you said.

Seeing that the unsubscribe link goes to CNN’s official website, I decided to unsubscribe thnking that someone just put me on the list. But What could be a little deceiving is that when you unsubscribe from the “Daily Top 10″ from CNN’s official website, their website doesn’t tell you if you were actually subscribed in the first place–in other words it doesn’t kick back an error message saying that your email addresss wasn’t on the list.

Anyway it’s a new and highly annoying spam tactic. I swear if I could get my hands on the people causing this…

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:44:11 +0000

Yeah, I got this and clicked unsubscribe. Didn't download anything though, and now my spam quarantine is catching all the subsequent ones. PS, watch out for Twitter spammers too: http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/08/warning-hackers-using-sexy-girls-to-infect-twitter-users.html