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 […]
Korean spam tastes the best
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 […]
When spammers try to use tools they don't master
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Spambots looking for mail forms
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: […]
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 […]