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Archive of posts filed under the Spam category.
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.
Real World Time to Receive Spam #2
On Saturday morning I wondered how long it would take spam to come into a new email address that was mentioned in a blog post (See Real World Time to Receive Spam.) The answer is: 2.02 days (2 days and 24 minutes). It was a congratulatory email that I had won a World Bank/EU lottery. […]
Filmloop shared info with Mixercast?
Back on February 3, 2006 I registered with Filmloop.com, probably based on Guy Kawasaki’s recommendation from his blog. I don’t think I ever did anything with the system though. I also have never received any email to that address. Until today. This morning I received an email from Mixercast.com to my Filmloop address. A Google […]
Real World Time to Receive Spam
On August 6th, I wrote about WordPress Commenting Plugin Needed. In that post I created a unique email address as an example of the hashed address I use at every web site I post at. The first piece of spam to that address came in at August 9th, at 12:50pm, only 2.97 days later, and […]