First Finnish spams

I just received my first Finnish language spams ever. And when it rains, it pours. I got the same message several times (no wonder), and then also some different messages. Someone has inserted Finnish language files to some bots.

The first mail batch was peculiar. Nothing to do with the normal spam stuff, but it was about a nuclear reactor meltdown in Mikkeli. Rather odd message to be sent as spam, but probably tries to lure people to click on the link at the end to get them infected with spyware or something. Don’t know, didn’t try.

The message would have been more effective, if a) the sender would have had a Finnish name and b) there would be a nuclear power plant in Mikkeli. At least spammers got the name of the town right.

Jokes aside, I think that this development is alarming. There are a lot of people, especially older ones, that do not speak English or any other foreign language in Finland. They have been protected from spam threats by natural means, but now that protection is going to wear off.

I do hope that my parents are not fooled to click on the links, or I end up running anti-spyware tools all the time for them. Better call them tonight.