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 […]
Tilti Group Ltd fortsätter med spammandet
Tekniskt sett så är väl det som Tilti Group ägnar sig åt inte spam. Deras erbjudanden skickas ut till info-adresser hos olika företag, kommunikation med företag är tillåten enligt rådande anti-spam-lagar. Roligt nog kan jag i dagens mail från Tilti, konstatera att de har tagit åt sig av den kritik jag hade mot deras förra […]
The famous tradmark SPAM
08/31 2005 – What does spam mean to you? Today I received a cease and decist notice from the intellectual property law firm Merchant & Gould, acting for Hormel Foods, the company that actually owns the trademark SPAM (as in pressed, canned, luncheon meat). If you haven’t ever heard about this rather vicious canned product, […]
Sober.q worm spamming from whitehouse.gov
Yesterday, when the Sober.q worm hit, I was somewhat disturbed by the fact that this domain was getting bounces where one of my addresses had been used as the from address for these political spam messages. I don’t know if I should feel better when realizing that the president@whitehouse.gov address is used for this too. […]
Loads of German political spam via Sober.q
I’m actually quite relieved that it’s not only me getting almost a thousand spam mails in German today. At first I was worried, since I have been receiving almost as many bounces to one of my email addresses used at Drinkalizer.com. But now I hear complaints from all over. And according to F-Secure, it’s a […]
Gevalia på oväntat besök i inkorgen
2005-05-13 – Har du fått spam om Gevalia på sistone? Då är du långt ifrån ensam. Ett av Krafts amerikanska bolag har på sistone valt att marknadsföra Gevalia-kaffe på den amerikanska marknaden genom att anlita de riktiga storspammarna som Eddie Marin, Scott Richter eller några av deras kollegor. Inom anti-spamkretsar pratar många om att börja […]
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. […]
OptInRealBig spammer files for bankrupcy protection
03/30 2005 – Is this a small victory for the antispam community? From DenverPost.com (and now gone): E-mail marketer Scott Richter fought lawman Eliot Spitzer, but he’s knuckling under to the world’s richest man, Bill Gates. Richter’s company, Westminster-based OptInRealBig.com, has filed for bankruptcy protection in Denver. The company cited a costly legal battle with […]
Even more referral spamming domains blocked
02/13 2005 – I’m mildly surprised that the nofollow link attribute doesn’t keep the referral spammers from using more and more domains for their strange kind of marketing attempts. I just keep adding them to my blacklist, whenever I find them. The only thing new is that there see to be more of them doing […]