När man kommer hem till folk som man inte känner så bra brukar det gå snabbt att bilda sig en uppfattning om personen i fråga genom att kasta ett öga i bokhyllan. Eller, på bokhyllan till och med. Ofta behöver man inte ens börja titta efter vilka författare eller som finns representerade, det brukar räcka […]
Archives for november 2004
Privert Rudy – my first Haitian iscammer
My first Haitian 419 mail! The sender claims to be Privert Rudy, the son of Jocelerme Privert, former interior minister in Haiti. The setup is classic with the mention of five million British pounds. The mail is backed up with some good links. But still, it’s an obvious variation of the well known 419 mails. […]
Richard Ubani aka Fidelis Izuka?
The first time this scammer contacted me, he went under the name of Fidelis Izuka. This time the attorney’s name is changed to Richard Ubani. The company name in the setup is changed from Eleme Construction & Development Company into Chevron Oil, but otherwhise it’s pretty much the same mail. Both are based on the […]
Nigerian 419 scam from Dr William Ado
It’s actually been quite a while since I last received a true Nigerian 419 scam mail. And this is almost too good to be true. Allcaps, a 30% share of over 30 million US dollars… the only anomaly is the Belgian e-mail address, but who am I to be picky about such small details after […]
Better anti-spam filtering
11/23 2004 – After a recent change of hosting companies, the amount of spam that makes it through to my inbox is just a fraction of what it used to be. The web hosting company currently hosting this site (Datakultur.com*) has an optional server-side spam filter, that really does the job. Combined with the built-in […]
Lottery scammers using the Google brand name
The Signature Darwin sent me a lottery scam mail that actually has the nerve to use Google’s brand name. I guess I know one scammer who is about to get a swarm of corporate lawyers after him. Here is the lottery scam mail using the Google brand, such as I received it:
Graham Usman thinks me a fool
Someone calling himself Graham Usman thinks I’m a fool. If anyone else wants to be fooled by his offer please feel free:
Project Honeypot
11/11 2004 – It looks as if I have to tune down the sensitivity of my Junk filter somehow. Today I found a really interesting mail in the Junk basket. It’s from Matthew Prince, CEO of Unspam, LLC, who has recently launched Project Honeypot, a distributed system of decoy email addresses that website administrators can […]
Fidelis Izuka – Impersonating a Barrister
iScammers just like any other kind ov scam artists like to bait their plot with something just about legal. If you bite, their notion is that you will be less inclined to report the scammer to the authorities. In the scam mail below, the bait is 18 million dollars, and the hook is that the […]