Wow, an unsubscribe request on a piece of spam didn’t work. What will they think up next? —– The following addresses had permanent fatal errors —– <alarmed@yahoo.ca> (reason: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn’t have a yahoo.ca account (alarmed@yahoo.ca) [-5] – mta101.mail.dcn.yahoo.com) —– Transcript of session follows —– … while talking to mx2.mail.yahoo.com.: >>> […]
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170 FNPL bounces and counting
So far, 170 bounces of the FNPL spam scam from bad email addresses.
FNPL faked "unsubscribe address"
Wow, the idiot sending out the spam under my planetmike.com domain is falsifying the email address used for “unsubscribe requests.” Sounds like a Federal Trade Commission report is soon to come. not that the FTC is much better than the SEC, but I’ve got to start somewhere. Here are the addresses falsified so far. alarmed@yahoo.ca […]
FNPL Loser
Gryder Market Insider Report – FNPL Is On The Move! Dear Subscriber, How can I (or actually, the intended spammed recipient) be a subscriber? Loser idiot spammer. This Weeks Hot Pick Is FNPL. With a 52wk high of 1.50 it is sitting at .80 at the moment and expected to explode over the next 2 […]
"Spammers Turn To Pump and Dump" – This is News?
An article with the revelation that spammers use Pump and Dump to make money from the people that they scam. Spammers Turn To Pump and Dump.
ABZT spam run
Wow, just when I thought the lame loser idiot spammer faking my domain name in their spam had gone away, they start up again. I talked with a lawyer about this, and essentially there is nothing I can do about this, except maybe trademarking my domain name, so I can sue. That’s $500 I won’t […]
Blocking ads in Firefox or Mozilla
I surprised myself, but Firefox is slowly getting my attention over Apple’s Safari. The latest feature I love is a plug-in called AdBlock. It blocks advertising images and some of the pop-ups and pop-unders that Firefox can’t block yet. I used a list at http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/ of what to block. So far, it is working quite […]
Idiot Phishers
Here’s an easy way to tell an email message is a phishing attempt: If the message refers to a technology that doesn’t exist yet, it’s a scam of some sort. I just recevied this attempt to phish my PayPal account info: Your account will be suspended ! We are contacting you to remind you that […]
GTVCF ended up with 1,535 bounces
I ended up with 1,535 bounces of falsified planetmike.com email addresses.
Beware of “Internet Corporation Listing Service”
Watch out for highly annoying yet legal invoice-looking things from the Internet Corporation Listing Service. If you register a domain name, you have to give a working address. That address will be sent a soliciation that looks very very similar to a bill. This is for an annual subscription for being listed in search engine. […]