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Spam, spam, spam

2007-12-21 Av Kommentera

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 [...]

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Korean spam tastes the best

2007-11-17 Av 8 Comments

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 [...]

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Project Honeypot takes up the fight against comment spam

2007-04-24 Av 4 Comments

Comment spam is a pest. This site, running 4 different installations of WordPress, is protected by Aksimet, which daily catches a few hundred automated spam comments. I just couldn’t make do without that kind of protection. Now, project Honeypot, otherwhise known for their somewhat unorthodox ways of tracking IP-addresses involved in classic mail spam, has decided to take action against blog comment spammers as well.

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When spammers try to use tools they don't master

2006-10-24 Av Kommentera

I hate spam just as much as anyone, but I still find it fascinating to brows through my spam now and again. And this one sure caught my eye. Not only has the spammers forgot to set the right parameters for the auto generated subject. They actually failed to add any content to the mail [...]

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Poetic spam title collection

2006-09-04 Av Kommentera

09/04 2006 – I know that spammers use random algoritms to produce the titles of their mails. But sometimes I get the feeling that there must have been a poet involved in designing the title generating software. Some of the titles ar so incredibly unreadable, yet wonderfully intriguing, with a distinctive poetic touch. I’ve started [...]

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Spammers! Take a look at what the Koreans are doing

2004-10-21 Av Kommentera

10/21 2004 – I only see a fragment of all the thousands of spam messages I receive each day. About 99% of them are transfered directly into my Junk folder and deleted every other day. But of the maybe 50 or so junk messages that doesn’t get caught by the Mail.app junk filter, there is [...]

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Spambots looking for mail forms

2004-01-21 Av 2 Comments

01/21 2004 – I checked the 404 report on one of my not so used domains today, and was quite suprised to see the amount of visits from bots looking for various formmail scripts. Just look at this: 201: /robots.txt 8: /www.the-other-stuff.com 2: /cgi-bin/formmail.cgi 2: /cgi-bin/FormMail.pl 2: /favicon.ico 1: /cgi-local/formmail.cgi 1: /b2rss2.php 1: /cgi-bin/Mail.pl 1: [...]

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Over 30,000 bounces in 6 hours!

2003-10-21 Av Kommentera

Tonight my mailbox exploded. When I went over to check the morning mail I had over 30,000 unread mail admin warning messages aboutn unknown senders. Yup. Somebody has once again used my domain for sending unsolcited mail. Ironically, this time with the titles ”STOP SPAM IN ITS TRACKS”, ”Get Rid of SPAM For GOOD” and [...]

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