Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Filed under: spam

Crisis in the socialmedia war room of the Belgian Crisiscentre

Difficult to believe, but it happened. The twitter account of the Federal Belgian Crisiscentre got hacked tonight and was sending out some spam messages. Well at least they apologized (Dutch):

 

We can only hope they learned from the incident, can't imagine that during a real crisis the 'bad guys' would control their communication.

Uniform traffic ticket

Ok, we've all got mails from Mobutu's son, Nigerian scam or Russian girls willing to jump on a plane, but this one... no, quite original. As far as I could find, first reports date from early July 11. 

Ah yes, of course the attach contained an .exe-file.   

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: info -093 <info.-093@nyc.gov>
Date: 2011/8/3
Subject: Uniform traffic ticket
To: ....@......be


 

New York State — Department of Motor Vehicles

UNIFORM TRAFFIC TICKET

POLICE AGENCY

NEW YORK STATE POLICE>

Local Police Code

THE PERSON DESCRIBED ABOVE IS CHARGED AS FOLLOWS

Time

7:25 AM

Date of Offense

07/05/2011

IN VIOLATION OF

NYS V AND T LAW

Description of Violation

SPEED OVER 55 ZONE

TO PLEAD, PRINT OUT THE ENCLOSED TICKET AND SEND IT TO TOWN COURT, CHATAM HALL., PO BOX 117