Busty Amber adopts Twitter and YouTube disguise to help pharmacy spammers

Graham Cluley
@gcluley

I saw a couple of messages in our traps today that appear to be related to each other, both starring a young woman in her underwear who – for the purposes of clarity – I will refer to as “Busty Amber”.

Using messages that appear to come from Twitter and YouTube, and use their logos and styles in an attempt to trick you that they are genuine, both messages incorporate an image of Busty Amber as she tries to befriend you on YouTube or inform you that you have unread messages waiting for you on Twitter.

I’ve err.. cropped the images so you won’t have to see everything that Busty Amber has to offer.

The body of the YouTube message reads:

Hello <email address> The user Amber suggests you to become friends on YouTube. Offers and acceptance of offers on friendship simplify tracing of that your friends place in the selected works, add or estimate, and also simplifies video departure by all or to the selected users. To accept or reject this invitation, pass in…

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the anti-virus industry having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent security analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of computer security, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter at @gcluley, on Mastodon at @[email protected], or drop him an email.