[IP] Spam-scam over Vioxx (fwd)

["David J. Farber" <farber@nexus.inconvenient.net>]

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\From: Brian McWilliams <brian@pc-radio.com>
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Spam-scam over Vioxx
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:46:07 -0500

Hi Dave,

FYI for your readers who may have recently received a spam inviting them to 
file a complaint regarding Vioxx:


http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2004/12/have_you_been_h.html

December 28, 2004

Have you been harmed by Vii0xx?

There's a clever scam spam making the rounds (sample here) that preys on 
gullible users of Vioxx, the painkiller recently pulled from the market by 
Merck over safety concerns.

The spam invites recipients to "file a claim" at a special website if 
they've been harmed by taking Vioxx. If you go to the site (domains include 
worldwideteamwork.com, whereitallhappens.com, among others), you are asked 
to provide your name, email address, phone, etc., presumably so you can 
participate in some sort of legal action against Merck.

The site appears to be designed to capture information for a spam operation 
using servers from a notorious spam-hosting company in Brazil. If you check 
out the home page of the site, you'll see it's an online pharmacy of some 
sort. And it's still selling Vioxx!



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