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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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 […]
Spammers! Take a look at what the Koreans are doing
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 […]