The latest roundup of accidentally-humorous spam messages. There’s one here with the subject line of “Aniston Likes the Sound of Singing Inmates”. If “Aniston” is the name of the spammer, he (?) had better like it a lot, because this stuff is good for a long stay behind bars. Maybe he can start a chorus… …
Sometimes, on a slow day, I look at the spam that I get. Most of it is boring… the same-old same-old. “Best repl1ca w4tches!”, “cheap oem soft shipping //orldwide”, “Viagre Ciali Xanas Valiun have special discount, express ship to all countries”, “Don’t be the ‘little guy’ in the club”. Various phishing messages that wouldn’t fool …
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Internet users rejoice: one of the world’s top spammers has been indicted! Only another ten billion to go. No, there aren’t ten billion spammers at present, despite the evidence of your in-box. From what I’ve heard, there are only about 200 large spam operations at any one time. But that makes little difference when, like …
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I’ve heard all about blog-comment spam, and I’ve even stumbled over a little of it here and there around the ‘net. I’d wondered how long it would be before the Geek Drivel blog attracted it’s first one. No need to wonder any further: it showed up a few minutes ago, a credit-card spam, and was …
I have a widget on my browser’s home page that shows me what’s going on on several other pages, and Geek Drivel is one of them. Today when I sat down at the computer, I discovered that it apparently didn’t have any posts whatsoever. As I’d had close to two thousand posts the last time …
As you may have noticed, I’ve been too busy this last week or so to keep up on my blog posts. That’s because we’re getting ready to release our new software product, and I’ve been working on a new website, among other things. After some initial teething troubles, I’m happy to report that it’s now …
(If you’re reading this, then you’re on the new site. Congratulations. 😉 ) After hosting my websites with Total Choice Hosting (TCH from here on) for more than eight years, I’ve been forced to move them. The issue: lost e-mails. A few months ago, a friend of mine called to ask if I’d gotten his …
I recently stumbled across a very funny parody site called The Content Farm. Extra funny if you’ve run across real content farms (they constantly steal Geek Drivel entries, so I see more than my fair share), but good even without that. (An as-yet-unidentified content farm, stealing and mangling one of Geek Drivel’s articles, has apparently …
I think the spammer registration problem may be dealt with, at least for the moment. Since I added the new layers of defenses, only one spammer account has gotten through the first layer of registration (which checks its information against multiple online databases of known spammers). It failed the e-mail confirmation step and was auto-deleted …
I’ve mentioned that the blog has been hammered with spam attempts recently, but I thought nothing of it — it happens every now and again. And I thought that my own e-mail inbox was getting an abnormally large amount of spam as well, but GoddessJ’s young cousin recently had her Yahoo e-mail account hacked, so …