Riding on the Recession

Here's a crafty routine spammers are running with currently. As they are prone to do, these scammers like to hitch on to current events and milk them for all they're worth. This particular scam to collect recipient information and email addresses began a few days ago. The email pretends to come from the Ford Motor Company and is in a response of sorts to the recent government bailout of the auto industry. They claim that in an attempt to "get back on their feet" they are selling off a surplus of vehicles at a big mark down in price, which they are passing on to you. The monies generated through this liquidation is supposedly going to supplement the giant loan the government has already given them. Anyway, here ya go read the email for yourself:
Dear Mr/Ms,

Due to the World Economy Recession, Ford Motor Company, Inc undergo a statistic fall in Sales and result in a drastic financial crisis this last season.

The Government has given us the opportunity to bounce back on our feet, but unfortunately we have not achieved the fund necessary.

Therefore, we offer you the opportunity to purchase a very good Auto at 35% discount of the price. We decided to pull the sales of 1.000 cars from United Kingdom at a very low price for us to aquire the capital needed to bounce back in business and to use this medium to increase the scale of our valued customers.

The payment shall be made in installments through the bank at 1 month after signing the contract.
If you are interested in this offer please fill out the application form, A representative will contact you about this application within five business day.



Sincerely,
Ford Motor Company
P.O. Box 6248
Dearborn, MI 48126

The email also contains an attachment that through the use of a double extension tries to trick the recipient into believing it is a .pdf document. This attachment is actually a .html page. Once the page is loaded it pulls down a background graphic from a domain called malala.biz which makes the page look like it is actually a pdf document with minor imperfections such as tiling that occurs at high resolutions. Information is then gathered through a series of drop down menus, and text boxes. Pertinent information includes your name, email address, and mobile phone number. A "send" button that rests above a poorly created company footer submits your data to the harvesters. AppRiver is blocking all of these with several different tests, so click below to get a chance to check it out.