• Silicon Alley Insider, Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:21 PM

Gawker Media, considered to be a rather street-smart bunch, just got scammed by a malware company pretending to be SMG. The "ads" crashed readers' browsers, and, in some cases, installed spyware on their computers.

Gawker is warning other publishers: "Someone is approaching publishers as a representative of Spark-SMG on the Suzuki account, even though Suzuki very recently switched agencies ... George Delarosa and his accomplice Douglas Velez claim that there's a limited amount of money left in the Suzuki account for them to spend, and they need to spend it quickly ... Email comes from @spark-smg.com instead of @sparksmg.com, though the who-is for their spoof domain is very close to the actual domain."

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