SMScaster.com spam / scam
Sunday, July 21. 2013
This was the first time ever I got a SMS spam. It said:
Visit us at SMSCaster.com for FREE ! You have Won £2,500,000.00 Pounds (GBP). Email: eurodraws23@hotmail.co.uk with your name, phone number and claim code:EU2k1
Sender: +34603147561
My initial WTF was: What the hell is SMSCaster? Apparently it is SMS-spammers weapon of choice. A piece of software which can spit out a lot of garbage using your mobile phone connected to your PC.
Then again with Google, I found two instances of people complaining about the same thing. 1) from Australia and 2) from USA. Looks like SMSCaster is only means to an end, it is the utility doing the nasty stuff.
My second WTF was: Why an earth somebody in Spain (+34) wants to claim, that I have won money there? I tried doing a reverse phone number lookup, but there seems not to be any of them available.
Spain seems to be the primary source of Nigerian scam or 419 scam nowadays. Some journalists have followed up on some e-mail spam and they seem to originate from Spain. Also there are news, that Spanish officials have arrested suspects running a Nigerian scam ring.
