2014 sees two huge sporting events taking place: the football World Cup in Brazil and the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. In November we mentioned a mailing exploiting the World Cup the fraudsters disguising their scam as a lottery. In January the number of these kinds of mailings increased. The body of the message was either empty or contained just one phrase: See the attachment for information or Open the attachment The content of the attached file changed from message to message, as did the file format JPEG, PDF or DOC.”]
Source: https://securelist.com/the-world-cup-spammers-set-their-sights-on-goal/58260/