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.
Geek Drivel has been getting a steady stream of comment spam almost since its inception, but it has really been bombarded with it over the last week or so. Spam Karma 2 does an excellent job of filtering them — in a year and a half, I can count the ones that have gotten through …
One of the (few) spam messages that survived to show up in my junk folder today: Subject: Hilarious! Could it be true? See inside. Jessica Simpson Breathes Air READ FULL STORY Um… unless Jessica Simpson is a fish, a methane-breathing alien, or dead, why would that pique my interest? Isn’t that rather like exclaiming “Amazing, …
Although interesting (to me) in and of itself, I’m mentioning this article because of this bit from the last paragraph: In other developments, spammers have abandoned the use of image-based spam, file attachment spam and other such frippery by going back to basics. Nine in ten spam messages now contain little more beyond a few …
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Uh-oh! Better lock up your e-mail program ’til he’s re-caught!
Two of my favorite targets in a single (and pretty good) article — bonus! 🙂
Maybe spammers don’t need to have even average intelligence to make money at it? I’ve gotten a large number of spams recently (all caught by SpamBayes with no real difficulty) that have one sensationalistic headline in the subject line, and a completely different one in the body of the message. Case in point: Subject: Facebook …
As noted previously, I rarely post about spam anymore, simply because there’s little new or interesting to post about. In fact, I rarely even see spam anymore, maybe one or two messages a day at most. This one is slightly interesting though, because it’s a perfect example of the contortions that spam purveyors have to …
A friend of mine noticed that an envelope had been slid under his apartment door yesterday, containing a hand-written note: Hi! Every time I see you I think how beautiful and georgious you are and want to get to know you better. Don’t get me wrong, I just want to be your friend. If you …
GoddessJ had a wedding shower to attend, so we packed up and took an overnight trip to the shores of Lake Huron. It was interesting… I saw a large number of power-generating windmills, including a couple that were still being put together (the first time I’d seen them close up — they’re freakin’ huge! I …
A few days ago, I received three identical spam messages, one to each of three different e-mail addresses (clickable areas removed): From: Spock Team Subject: Head Geek wants you to check out spock.com I am testing out this new people search search engine called spock.com. It seems pretty interesting and you might want to do …