After getting more than 50,000 bounce mails I closed down my multi-pop account and didn’t see much more of them. Then, I went out of town, and off-line, and never realized I had been attacked by a revenging (and probably still half-witted) spammer. Today, thanks to Wired News, I have learned the term Joe-job and got another mention from Wired News.
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 […]
Telia skickar spam med olaglig cookie
2003-09-06 – Den här veckan har åtskilliga tusen företag fått spam från Telia. Spam-mailet var ett nyhetsbrev som företagen fick utan att ha bett om det och utan att ha uppgivit sin e-postadress till Telia. Inte olagligt, men ovälkommet De företag som har skickat klagomål till Telia i saken har fått svaret att adresserna är […]
Wired News confirms that Bob White aka Brian Appel is Robert Todino
Wired News has picked up on the Warp Generator thread and found confirmation that the Time Travel spammer that has given us so much joy during the last months in fact is Robert ”Robby” Todino from Woburn. Just like we have speculated about.
Is there a new Dimensional Warp Generator Needed spammer?
I received yet another ”Dimensional Warp Generator Needed” mail this morning, containing som many discrepansies from the earlier ones that I suspect somone has picked up on the scam started by Time Traveler Bob White aka David/Brian Appel. Discrepansies Earlier mails have been sent to two or three different addresses within my lindqvist.com domain. Two […]
Warp Watch Needed – From Brian Appel?!?!
I was almost worried Time Traveller Bob had packed it in (or had been taken in buy nice men in white coats), but today a new mail arrived from him. He has changed the pitch a bit again and has changed his name from Bob White to Brian Appel!
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 […]
An older Time Traveller mail. He wants a fresh start!
I have known there has been other Time Traveller spam mails going round, but haven’s seen any of these. But today I found one. It’s published by Eric Gregory on the ISP-chat at mail-archive.
The time travel spammer has a name
Tonight I received another DWG needed mail. It’s pretty much the same as the last one except the coordinates has changed somewhat to a positive value for longitude: Latitude N 42.47935 & Longitude W 071.17355 Elevation 119. The new pickup time is for today (”Monday August 4th at (exactly 3:00pm) Eastern Standard Time”). If someone is close. You could have some fun meeting up.