Archive for April, 2005

Open redirectors as a tool for scammers

Monday, April 18th, 2005

How would you classify the below URL?
http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com

As belonging to Google or as one belonging to eBay? It leads into eBay.com, but it goes there via Google… Well, how about this one:

http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lindqvist.com/ url/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com

Horrible, isn’t it? It’s somehow associated with Google, ends up at eBay and it’s not quite clear what the www.lindqvist.com part has to do with it. And it could get worse. Read the rest of this entry »

Peter Edwards - the beneficial scammer

Friday, April 1st, 2005

Here’s another example of the new trend of beneficial iscammers. The ones that pretend that they have lead a vile life, but now turned into do-gooders, and want your help to distribute their money to worthy charity organizations.

Besides. If I where an iScammer, I wouldn’t be sending out my baits on April first…  Read the rest of this entry »

Friday, August 29th 2008 Nikke Lindqvist är så glad för att Jaiku finns.

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