I just checked my Akismet spam listing, and see that at some point on October 20th, 2007, Akismet tagged the 20,000th spam comment on my blog. Wow, amazing. And that is after tweaking WordPress to use a unique filename to process comments. Most days I get around 2 to 5 spam comments, although my gut […]
Archive of posts filed under the Spam category.
Real World Time to Receive Spam #6
It took 1.49 days to get spam this time from my tagged email address I released on Wednesday. Wow, that’s the quickest yet. This one was advertising a web directory service. By the way, the process I’m going through I’m calling a blogtrap. 815a2aa2e435a70246cf153fbedb9891@planetmike.com
Real World Time to Receive Spam #5
It took 11.08 days to get spam this time from my tagged email address I released earlier last week. I guess the spammers are slipping; although they did send three of the messages at once. This spam was a pharmacy scam. 09137f629215aa18491f15c61529a282@planetmike.com
Review of BlogRush.com (Syndicating your blog)
The hottest new widget on the web is BlogRush.com (yes, that’s an affiliate link). You put their widget on your site, then they syndicate your headlines out to other blogs in your same category. On your blog you’ll see five headlines from other blogs. You’ll get one of your headlines displayed on some other blog […]
News: "Pump-and-dump spam nets scammers $20 million"
It’s nice to see that sometimes scammers get caught. I’d love to know what the 15 stocks were. September 10, 2007 (Computerworld) — Federal authorities announced last week that members of a “pump-and-dump” spam group that bilked more than $20 million from naïve, overeager investors have all pleaded guilty. Although four men admitted to the […]
Real World Time to Receive Spam #4
It took 4.07 days to get spam this time from my tagged email address I released earlier this week. This spam was a Paypal phishing attempt, from Korea. fea41c9b40a38060a8769e8d2ed4719e@planetmike.com
Zinio Sucks (as do most spammers)
Many moons ago I had a subscription to MacWorld through Zinio. Zinio is a service that gives you an electronic version of a magazine, and the subscription I got was free with some Mac purchase I made in August 2004. It actually wasn’t that bad a product, but the funky player was a hassle. I […]
Why I Loathe Verizon (aka Verizon Sucks)
Around two to three years ago, I signed up to get DSL from Verizon with a guaranteed price so I wouldn’t have to worry about future price increases. A few months ago, Verizon “discontinued” my DSL package, so my price increased. Their fine print allowed them to change packages, which cancelled my guaranteed price. So […]
Real World Time to Receive Spam #3
It took 7.78 days to get spam this time from my tagged email address I released last week. I’d guess the Labor Day weekend threw the spammers off. The spam was a 419 spam from an Iraqi widow. 2d92c9fc8bf05501c26de88e6ae95c7a@planetmike.com
Electronic Frontier
If the Internet is an electronic frontier, spammers are cattle rustlers on the electronic frontier.