As usual spammers are taking advantage of an upcoming potential blockbuster film, like Simpsons in our case. Spam mails are being sent to e-mail users trying to coerce them to take a survey, giving over their e-mail address to spammers. SPAMfighter use a filtering algorythm for these types of mails and makes the user aware that this is a scam, and filtering the e-mails away from their inbox so they never have to see it. The spam mail has a picture of Homer Simpson in his underwear and asks the recipient if they plan on seeing the movie and to help fill out a survey by clicking on a link. Once the recipient does this, their e-mail address is recognized as being active, opening them up for many more spam mails.

    Martin Thorborg, omments co-owner and co-founder of SPAMfighter, said: "It is common that spammers will use large events, such as film premiers, wide scale media stories, or holidays to coerce e-mail users into a scam. We are hoping to avoid having our users fall victim to these scams by filtering away these e-mails" In order to entice e-mail users to enter this survey, they offer a prize for taking and completing the survey. As with many offers made by spam, this offer is fake, and there no chance of receiving the prize. The only reason for the mail is to get the e-mail addresses of active e-mail accounts so they can be slammed with spam mail later. Past cases of the same sort of scam occurred with the Harry Potter movie, Pirates of the Caribbean, 4th of July, and the Virginia Tech Shootings. While this is not a new tactic used by spammers, it is one that many people fall for, increasing the spammers business.

    The company is Europe's leading spam filter developer. The Danish company is owned by the founders of Jubii.dk, Henrik Sørensen and Martin Thorborg, together with two programmers, Daniel Hjortholt and Martin Dyring. SPAMfighter employs 35 people and is based in Copenhagen. SPAMfighter is debt-free and is 100 per cent financed by income from the sale of the SPAMfighter client. Each day, SPAMfighter deletes around 12 million spam messages from 14 million tested emails received by over 3.6 million users in 216 countries/regions. The program gets its power from the fact that over 3.6 million users report spam as they receive it, with a single click. Once several users have reported the same spam message, it is automatically filtered for all other users. The result is that approximately 90 percent of all spam is filtered out before it reaches any given user.

For more information visit: http://www.spamfighter.com.