OnlyMyEmail, Inc. an anti-spam and email virus filtering provider has detected a new breed of Spam, termed Hate-Spam where the senders are exploiting existing spam networks for the purpose of spreading anti-Semitic email messages.
While the category is new, there has been rapid growth in mass email campaigns carrying such disturbing statements such as:
These messages, among other variations, are originating from services previously seen sending more garden-variety commercial spam. They are typically very short, contain no hyper-links or commercial solicitations and are written in extremely poor grammar.
Almost all of the messages seen to date are spoofing addresses that claim to originate from Internet connections within Israel itself, but actually are coming from the far East, including: Taiwan, China, Korea and Malaysia.
What remains unknown regarding these campaigns is whether the existing spam networks in use are actually being compensated for sending Hate-Spam.
"It's possible" according to OnlyMyEmail analysts, "that spammers are being paid to send these messages, but they may be using their networks to express their own views or simply may be probing networks for valid email addresses and are simply using the hateful content to distract from their real objective."
While Hate-Spam has just appeared in the last few days, it is already taking up a measurable amount of bandwidth for domains protected by OnlyMyEmail's spam filtering services.
Whether this will be a sustained new category of spam that continues to grow, or will simply run its course remains to be seen.
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