Tuesday, March 6, 2012

YouTube Spam Links to Pharmacy Website

YouTube LogoDid you receive an email – or four – claiming that you were sent a message on YouTube saying that “your video [is] on the TOP of YouTube”?

We certainly have.

Cybercrooks are doing their best to drive traffic to an illegal Russian pharmacy site by widely spamming out fake YouTube emails claiming that your video has been approved or is featured at the “top of YouTube.”

All of the bogus YouTube emails come from a spoofed sender’s address (service@youtube.com) and carry the same misleading message:

YouTube Spam
Subject: YouTube Service sent you a message: Your video on the TOP of YouTube
From: YouTube Service (service@youtube.com)

YouTube              help center | e-mail options | report spam

 YouTube

Service has sent you a message:

Your video on the TOP of YouTube

To: [YOUR EMAIL]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ION1oSbD&feature=topvideos_mp

You can reply to this message by visiting your inbox.

© 2011 YouTube, LLC
901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066

The only exception would be the initial email we got on Friday, which read:
Subject: YouTube Service sent you a message: Your video has been approved
From: YouTube Service (service@youtube.com)

YouTube              help center | e-mail options | report spam

 YouTube

Service has sent you a message:

Your video has been approved

To: [YOUR EMAIL]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWuTRULa3&feature=topvideos_mp

You can reply to this message by visiting your inbox.

© 2011 YouTube, LLC
901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066

Of course, none of the links within the spam messages pointed to YouTube and ultimately redirected to pharmaceutical websites.

If you receive an email similar to the ones outlined above, it’s strongly advised that you delete the messages without clicking any embedded links.

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