Journal of PlanetMike

On March 1, 2007 I started receiving spam sent to me with a “unique” signature. The message footer always started with the phrase “This advertisement is presented by” then a company name. From March 1 through August 13, I received 5,220 spam messages. I’m not sure why they stopped on that date. Here is one […]

I received an odd spam this morning. It was sent to a nonsense address at one of my domains that still has the catchall enabled. The body of the message Return-Path: Received: from pdngvw.net (unknown [211.63.134.102]) by server1.planetmike.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 88836400001 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:01:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from kgfhbaq.net […]

I just received some spam to my email address that was in my old Network Solutions domain registration Whois listing. The spam is from domainupdater.com (view the whois information for domainupdater.com. The spammers at DomainUpdater.com are hiding behind Network Solutions’ http://www.networksolutionsprivateregistration.com/ service. I am so glad that I left NSI entirely a few weeks ago. […]

Wow, it’s been a while since one of my domains was used as the return address in a spam run. 2,630 bounces, so a fairly small run. Wish I had captured the body content. Oh well, ever since the spammers won a battle by forcing me to turn off my catchall addresses, it’s been more […]

I swear, you just can’t make this stuff up. From VistaPrint’s privacy policy: Deactivation of Your Account. You may also request deactivation of your VistaPrint account by contacting Customer Care at customercare@vistaprint.com or by writing to the address below and requesting account deactivation. Please note that some information may remain in our archived records after […]

So, yesterday evening I email my account deactivation request to Vistaprint.com. Today just after 8am Eastern I got some RRR (not quite XXX) porn spam to the unique email address I gave only to Vistaprint. Wow, spam from a third party sent to an email address only given to Vistaprint? A coincidence? I don’t think […]

Over the past 12 hours or so, I’ve received a handful of email messages from around the world. The Subject is a series of numbers, 4 to 6 digits. The only text in the body is a group of eight hexadecimal characters. I don’t see a correlation between any of the info in the messages, […]

Since Monday I’ve been getting lots of new PDF spam. The subject line ends with a number with 5 to 10 digits in it. The subject line matches the file name of the attachment. The PDF all tout stock spams. The footer of the PDF says the message is from “American Stock Trader Press.” If […]