German rascist email spam: Spam This!

[Kellanved]

If your inbox was flooded over the weekend with odd German messages, you're not alone. A new spam epidemic broke out online sometime late Saturday, and some users have reported getting thousands of short emails with links to a variety of extreme right- wing Web sites, as well as regular news sites like SPIEGEL Online and the Web site of Die Tageszeitung. While the exact source of the virus isn't known, it appears to be aimed at voters in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westfalia, the country's most populous state, where elections are due next Sunday. It is apparently meant to promote the National Democratic Party of Germany, or NPD, a party at the extreme right wing of the political spectrum in Germany.

The messages come with subject lines like "Bloody Self-Justice," " Multi-Kulturell = Multi-Kriminell" or "Turkey in the EU", and have a short message saying "read for yourself" followed by the links. The general themes are anti-immigrant, though many of the articles linked from SPIEGEL Online and other reputable news sites, would have to be willfully misread to be seen as promoting racist or anti-immigrant views.

It's not clear exactly who is behind the virus -- though it seems likely it has something to do with the German NPD -- but the method they are using is clear. The culprit is the Sober.Q virus, the newest version of the Sober virus, a worm that infects address books and sends a copy of itself to all the entries. Various security firms have released warnings that they received hundreds of thousands of Sober.Q emails within the first 24 hours of the virus' outbreak.

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http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,356140,00.html

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM%5FSOBER%2EU&VSect=P

[Zuni]

1. No one seems to love me

My e-mail inbox has yet to be flooded with neo-nazi hate propaganda! :cry:

[Kellanved]

3. Me neither

My guess is that the spam-filter report will be quite long this week, though.
:shrug:


Alas, there seem to be quite a lot of people getting them. A flamewar or two from last night make a lot more sense when taking the spam mails in account.

[LynzM]

2. I just finished reading this...

A couple people I work with came to ask me to translate stuff this morning...

[Kellanved]

8. *shudder*

These mails are better left unread / untranslated.

Nazi spammers. The ultimate evil.

[Lefta Dissenter]

4. THANK YOU!

for explaining it! My inbox has been flooded, though of course I had not clicked on any of the links to see where they lead...

But NOW what??? I've been trying to block messages, but of course they're all from different sources and addressed in different ways.

I'm on my way to work, so I can't try to do anything now - I suppose my inbox will be full AGAIN when I get home tonight. :(

Asshats.

[Kellanved]

5. try filtering emails with "Lese selbst" in the message body.

Following the old rule that Nazis are idiots, they were unable to produce a simple two word phrase without making a grammatical mistake.

[Township75]

6. Thanks a bunch!

this explains everything

[Kellanved]

7. np

I actually knew that yesterday; finding an English article was the problem ;-).

[MisterP]

9. we get it here in California (Jetzt mit noch mehr Arnold!) too

Grüßung von 'nen Halb-Bayer!

[TheMightyFavog]

10. Hmm, most of the ones I recieved

Were ones about the Dresden Raid.

At least these spams have given me the opportunity to do translations.