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 [...]
FTC going after the spammers in cross-border campaign
2006-12-17 Av Kommentera
This is interesting! In a media advisory the US Federal Trade Commission, FTC, announces a cross-border initiative involving the FTC, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Canadian Competition Bureau, and the Attorneys General of Florida, North Carolina, and Texas. The FTC also will release details of a report to Congress titled Effectiveness and Enforcement of the CAN-SPAM Act. [...]
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 [...]
Spam outlives Microsoft's prediction
2006-01-25 Av Kommentera
Did you get spam today? Strange, according to Microsoft, the spam problem should have ended yesterday. But theat isn’t the first time Bill Gates and his company has underestimated the spam problem. The Register has a nice piece on this subject today, titled ”Hey Bill, why am I still getting spam?”: ”Two years ago today [...]
FBI busts spam king Alan Ralsky
2005-10-16 Av 1 Comment
Now official news! Last week the unsealing of warrants revealed that agents in September seized computers, laptops, financial records and disks from the 8,000-square-foot home of Alan M. Ralsky. The $750,000 West Bloomfield mini-mansion was built off profits from the 100 million electronic offers for everything from Botox to mortgages that Ralsky sends every day. [...]
Attorney General Tom Reilly Shuts down Spam King Leo Kuvayev
2005-10-15 Av Kommentera
10/15 2005 – It isn’t easy being a spam king these days. The other day reports came in that spam king #1, Alan Ralsky is in bad trouble. Todays anti-spam news are even more promising in some ways. According to the official website of Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly, spam king #2 Leo Kuvayev and [...]
What is Gouranga?
2005-05-09 Av Kommentera
I’ve been hit by loony spam before, and I’m not the only one who’s predicted that we will see more religous spam. Still finding the Gouranga mail when going through the last two weeks of spam made me very curious. My first thought was viral marketing, specially after seeing the first listing in Google’s SERPs. [...]
Better anti-spam filtering
2004-11-23 Av Kommentera
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 [...]
Project Honeypot
2004-11-11 Av Kommentera
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 [...]
Spam Poison – fighting e-mail harvesters
2004-05-07 Av Kommentera
Korean spam still tastes the best
2004-04-27 Av Kommentera
04/27 2004 – Evereone reading this site knows how I feel about spam and the scumbag spammers who fill my mail system and use up valuable bandwidth. It all boils down to a distinct feeling pretty close to hatred. Still, there is something special about Korean spam. The cartoon style, the fact that I really [...]
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 [...]
Someone is spamming from spoofed lindqvist.com addresses
2003-10-07 Av Kommentera
10/07 2003 – Is there something more awful than to open up your inbox just to see it cluttered with mails titled Returned mail: User unknown from senders like Mail Delivery Subsystem? That’s what’s happening to me right now. Someone is using my domain to send out v.i.a.g.r.a spam to a whole bunch of aol.com [...]
Did you get spam today? It was probably Windows powered.
2003-08-20 Av 6 Comments
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 [...]
Will we see new kinds of spam soon?
2003-08-06 Av Kommentera
Is stitching big in Korea?
2003-03-14 Av Kommentera
Five year prison term for spamming in Virginia
2003-03-02 Av Kommentera
05/02 2003 – If you’re planning a career as a spamhouse operator, don’t move to Virginia. Here is a report straight from the legal news letter at out-law.com: The toughest anti-spam law in the US came into force on Tuesday when Virginia Governor Mark Warner signed two bills creating a maximum prison term of five [...]
How can anybody fall for this?
2003-02-18 Av Kommentera
Loads of crap
2002-12-17 Av Kommentera
12/17 2002 – The last time I received spam about septic tanks it was from ”Benjamin Hutcherson”. This time the sender is supposed to be ”[epost73:Jon Heffner]”. Well both use the same free-of-charge-send-all-the-spam-you-like website in South Africa and they both try to sell the same crappy product. Septic tank systems? Would you buy one (or [...]
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