Unfortunately, this spoofing has nothing to do with commedia dell'arte; in Italy, attackers are sending spam messages forged to appear to come from lawyers and directing recipients to download malware. There's no reason to think it couldn't happen here or elsewhere.
described the problem at the Avert Blog, and called it a demonstration of social engineering against "the little guy": Miscreants have also taken to heart the figures regarding the lack of security awareness in smaller businesses. Small companies may feel that they're too insignificant to be targeted, but their machines may actually be just as valuable as someone in a Fortune 500 company. Small businesses' bandwidth is often better than a home user's, their employees' name and contact info can be used in schemes like this, they might be more apt to be hurt by Denial of Service attacks or extortion attempts, while they're less apt to have trained or dedicated security staff. Criminals online are no different than criminals offline - they try to target weak victims who are not aware of their surroundings in the hope of scoring some valuables with minimal work. Offline protection options are representing a fake charity and soliciting a donation. (Normally this story would appear in
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