It’s tough to believe that it’s been a week since the tragic deaths of 32 students and professors at Virginia Tech.

In that time, we’ve followed the story’s numerous information security angles, and we’ve found a lot of what we expected to find: Scammers and spammers will use just about any tragic story that’s received mainstream media coverage as a lure for malware or malicious websites.

So why bring it up again? Handler Tom Liston of the SANS Internet Storm Center posted today that spammers are sending messages across Europe claiming an “Asian national” has gone on a copycat shooting spree, and, of course, urging the reader to click on a malicious link for more information.

Liston sums up his (and most individuals’) feelings on the issue, complete with a fitting description of such scam artists.