Spam levels are up this christmas. Not only from scammers trying to take advantage of the charity spirit of the season, lottery scammers trying to make people believe that there is a chance to win big sums of money without even purchasing a lottery ticket (and now they even started commenting on my blog).

There is also the e-marketeers who didn’t make it this christmas either, and takes desperate measures to drive people to their e-stores at the last secondd before christmas.

My spam basket has never been this full, and I’m happy that my serverside spam filters catch the majority of all the crap rolling in.

Here’s a nice little music video about the other kind of spam, the kind of spam that isn’t powered by Microsoft.

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Actually, I’m not absolutely certain that it this is spam from Korea, those tend to be more colorful with many happy faces. But I really liked this one. It looks a little like a poem. I really do wish I could read it… But then again, maybe not. I would become so depressed if it turned out to be yet another lottery scam or viagra mail.

If anyone can read it. Please feel free to translate it in the comments. Or just make something up. I would never notice the difference.

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Where you heavily spammed by the new Windows viruses today? Well, you aren’t alone. Milllions of mails with the same 9 subjects have been sent out through Sobig.F infected computers, that now have become virtual spam relay hosts.

And if that wasn’t enough, mal-configured anti virus software send out notifications that our email addresses have been used as from-addresses for these worm infected mails.

The subject lines for Sobig.F could be: Re: Thank you!, Thank you!, Your details, Re: Details, Re: Re: My details, Re: Approved, Re: Your application, Re: Wicked screensaver, Re: That movie

My domain name neighbour, graphic designer and painter Andreas Lindkvist (of www.linkvist.com) sent me this desktop picture. Spam - Powered by Microsoft Windows. Originally from Andreas Lindkvist.

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