Malware Spammers Get Sense of Humor

Threat Level was intrigued the other day to get an e-mail with the subject line, "God Destroys Boise for Not Being Gay Enough."

Intrigued enough to open it. The body of the e-mail made an odd reference to Barack Obama being an anorexic, over-exerciser and had a link to a file called viewmovie.html on a U.K. domain owned by Virgin Media. That seemed sketchy, especially since I had no idea who the e-mail was from.

So after a little search engine testing, it turns out the title seems to have been ripped comes from a somewhat obscure parody story written in June about a San Francisco evangelical preacher saying God was punishing Midwesterners with storms.