Jay Leno is the top spam lure, security company finds
US talkshow host Jay Leno, singer Madonna, actress Cameron Diaz and President Barack Obama share an unpleasant secret their publicists are powerless to do anything about.
A new analysis by security company BitDefender has identified these celebrities as the most commonly-used lures in US spam campaigns, usually combined with bogus and sensational headlines designed to pique the interest of naive Internet users.
These four names were connected to a large proportion of a sample 25 million spam messages looked at by the company, most of which were pushing pharmaceutical products. Other less commonly used famous people included author Stephen King, film director George Lucas, and Anglo-Australian rock act, AC/DC.
