“Italians boffins prove plausibility of spam-javelin spam”
Oh great… a penis-lengthening system that might actually work?! The spam level is going to go through the roof now. 🙁
Search results for spam
Spammity spam, spammity spam…
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 …
I love spam…
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, …
“Convicted spammer goes AWOL from federal prison”
Uh-oh! Better lock up your e-mail program ’til he’s re-caught!
“Copyright enforcers should learn lessons from the war on spam”
Two of my favorite targets in a single (and pretty good) article — bonus! 🙂
Spam Idiots
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 …
Spam Problem Over?
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 …
Paper Spam!
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 …
Follow-up on “Spam from spock.com” Post
Earlier this week, I posted a rant about three near-identical spam messages I’d received from spock.com. It turns out that they (apparently) weren’t spam at all, but that the site was contacting me on behalf of someone (as yet unknown) who had my addresses listed as part of their contacts. The messages were supposed to …
Continue reading ‘Follow-up on “Spam from spock.com” Post’ »
Spam for spock.com
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 …