E-mail spam (including Trojan and virus messages), instant-message spam (“spim”), blog-comment spam, postal “bulk business mail,” and any other kind of unwanted, underhanded, and/or intrusive advertising. Also covers viruses, worms, and other malware.
As mentioned in this post, I’ve been getting “spimmed” (instant-message spam) via Skype from a particular English-challenged person. I had switched my copy of Skype to known-contacts-only mode and thought nothing more of it. Until last night, when I received a fourth copy of it. How it got through my privacy settings, I have no …
I’d first heard about “spim” (spamming over instant message networks) nearly a year ago, if my hazy recollection is correct, but actual examples of it seemed to be pretty thin on the ground. Last week I actually got one, and the English is so bad that it’s hilarious: