An’ Anuddah T’ing
If you’re coming to this message from a Google search, you’re probably investigating comment spam on your blog. Read on, MacDuff. This is an addendum to yesterday’s post, wherein I bemoaned spam commenting on blogs…
A 2012 Post
These days, spam comments aren’t provided by blog readers, they’re mostly supplied by botnets of infected computers looping through lists of blogs, much like a telemarketer’s computer loops through a list of phone numbers. It’s nothing personal.
Theory
No doubt you’ll remember the recent wave of trojan-laden spam which is still trickling in. I have a theory about what the Peacomm trojan’s been up to. At 3:36am EDT, the floodgates opened and this…
Mail Call, Y’all
Oboy! Mail! A Fool and His Money Department First up, Lei Hwang. Poor fellah wants to give me 20 per cent of $35,500,000 . . . my goodness, that’s seven million clams! Why, that’d surely…
Open, Click and Be Assimilated
It’s been a banner few days on the spam front. In one day, I’ve received emails with these titles (and the same attachment with differing names) Chinese missile shot down USA aircraft (Full Clip.exe) Chinese…
Intelligence Test #104.53-6
YOUR EMAIL WON 400,000.00EUROS STAATSLOTERIJ NL 2006 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM xxx xxx xxx xx, xxxx xx xxxxx. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. www.staatsloterij.nl REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/04 BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD RESULTS FOR CATEGORY “A” DRAWS Dear Winner, Congratulations to…
More Phish in the Sea
Yet another PayPal phishing scam: This one has a few clues as to its nefarious origins. 1. Its ‘Reply-to’ header reads ‘no-replay@paypal.com’ (No replay?) 2. If you cursor over its link, it displays 213.130.21.170 instead…
Here, Phishy Phishy
Today’s winner arrives in your emailbox with the title of Message ID – 20169661 and purports to be from PayPal. Of course, you immediately know the email’s a scam by passing your mousepointer over the…