I just received a blatant pre-recorded telemarketing call to my home phone number from a mortgage company in Pennsylvania. Caller ID told me it was from the phone number 215-364-9789, identified as Morton Penni. A Google search shows their information as Morton Penni Mortgages; address as 2 Bustleton Pike; Feasterville Trevose, PA 19053-6343; and their […]
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Spamhaus Lawsuit spam
I received some spam on Wednesday afternoon from someone really ticked at Spamhaus. It came to my abuse email address. It came from a throwaway Yahoo email address. Comments are supposed to go to yet another yahoo email address. I reported the addresses to Yahoo. The last line of the message was “Committee to stop […]
Re: Verizon needs to stop jerking me around
In Verizon needs to stop jerking me around Derek pegs why junk mail sucks. And a bonus, he pegs why Verizon sucks. Just yesterday my office’s T1 line went down. I call the helpful UUNet number to discover Verizon owns UUNET, or MCI, or whoever the heck it is. I have more important things to […]
YouTube user spam
I recently posted my first videos to YouTube. Less than a week later I’ve received my first spam mail from another YouTube user to my YouTube account. I can block that one user, but there is no way that I see to let YouTube staff know that one of their users is spamming. Argh! Is […]
Pump-n-Dump spammer faces SEC fraud charges
The Spam Diaries is pointing out that someone is finally being charged in penny stock fraud. Amazing, they made over $1,000,000 at penny stock fraud. And yes, the stock was selling at around a penny, so people were buying millions of shares of this company. Listen people, never buy anything that you is advertised in […]
Re: Test your ability to avoid spam
Over at Spamroll Test your ability to avoid spam, Michael Gracie asks how people did when they take the SiteAdvisor Spam Quiz. Basically, look at different sites, read their privacy policies, and decide which of the two sites is trustworthy. I got 100%, 8 out of 8 correct. Then again, I’m the webmaster for the […]
Re: Mac Server Series: Initial Set Up
In Mac Server Series: Initial Set Up Brian shares the first steps in a video on setting up a Mac as a server. He works for a web host that lets you send them a Mac Mini, and then you can run your web sites and email off of it. I priced it out, and […]
Funny blog comment spam attempt
While clearing out the spam that has accumulated on one of my blogs (and been successfully caught by WordPress’ Akismet spam filter) I saw this gem: Bush’s ties to Israel go back to debt consolidation and reduction WASHINGTON If there’s a starting point for George W. Bush’s attachment to Israel, it’s the day in late […]
Microsoft adCenter junk mail
At work yesterday I received a glossy advertisement from Microsoft touting their new adCenter. Beyond the irony of using postal junk mail to advertise an online advertising platform is the irony of the opt-out method for stopping this junk in the future. If you prefer not to receive future promotional mailings of this type from […]
Ten days to process unsubscribe requests, One day to sign up
Earlier this week I had to buy a product from eBay. Setting aside the joy of bidding against someone for an old clicky IBM keyboard (luckily I later found one that I could Buy Now), I started receiving “helpful” newslettery things from eBay. I didn’t want them, so I went to the web site, and […]