05/07 2004 – Spam Poison is a site set up for one purpose only: To atract the spambots used by spammers for harvesting any trace of e-mail addresses found on blogs and websites. The idea is by no way new, we have linked to pages with randomly created e-mail addresses, but Spam Poison uses a […]
Korean spam still tastes the best
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!
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
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.
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?
08/06 2003 – Spam has become such a big thing it is almost killing itself. Not many spam messages get past my mail.app junk filter today, and when they do, I can almost always tell that it is a spam mail and Junk stamp it (to teach my junk filter that this is something I […]
Is stitching big in Korea?
03/14 2003 – I don’t know if stitching is big in Korea, but it must be big enough for somebody to think that he/she might gain something by spaming the world. I don’t read Korean, but there is enough of English in the graphics of this page to get the message. Click here if you […]
Five year prison term for spamming in Virginia
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?
02/11 2003 – Some of the spam I get is just unbelievable! I can’t help but wonder how anybody receiving a mail like the one below could think ”hey that’s great! Somebody with a netscape.com address has just written to tell me I have been approved for a home loan”? But there must be. Enough […]
Loads of crap
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 […]