“Pics for MSN Friends” spams.

JMH

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In recent days, my personal MSN account has been bombarded with links from a few of my friends. What made it more curious is that the messages are usually sent when the user should have been offline and asleep since they’re half the world away from North America. Certainly suspicious.
This blog describes the first of the two kinds of links I got: Pics for MSN Friends”. The MSN message themselves look like this:

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