Some twelve or so SEB members got spammed through our mail system today by someone going by the name of “lucie” and I would like to apologize for the inconvenience. Your emails haven’t been revealed as it was done through EE’s built in mail system which doesn’t reveal it to the sender. The person who . . . → Read More: Fucking spammers.
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This is just a weird story all the way around. Edward “Eddie” Davidson is consider one of the “Spam Kings” and he was finally brought up on charges, convicted, and sentenced to 21 months (less than two years) in jail and ordered to pay $714,139 in restitution to the IRS (compare that to the estimated . . . → Read More: Spammer sentenced to jail escapes and kills wife, daughter, and himself. You really have to admire the chutzpah of some of these assholes who push craptastic products by spamming the fuck out of every webstie they can find. Someone registered an account with the user name “” and then submitted the following bit of spam: How I removed my moles and skin tags at home with . . . → Read More: Spammer registers SEB account and attempts to post spam entry for “molepaste.” The battle against comment spam on blogs is a never ending one. The cost to value ratio to the spammers is just too good to not take advantage of so they keep coming up with ways around the various tools we have to keep the crap comments out. Captchas help a bit, but the spammers . . . → Read More: Six Apart unveils TypePad AntiSpam. Today I received a second variation on the we’re-the-FBI-trying-to-help-you-get-money-for-free email scam. It seems the FBI is a popular organization with the scammers these days. Again I have to note with some amusement that the director of the FBI uses a YahooUK email address. This one takes a much more direct, threatening, and long-winded approach: From: . . . → Read More: SEB Mailbag: Second take on the FBI Nigerian email scam. The two email addresses I have through my websites, one associated with the SEB domain and one with Jenkins Online, attract a lot of spam and scam email every day. The ubiquitous Nigerian scam in all it’s myriad forms shows up almost daily and often on both email accounts within moments of each other, but . . . → Read More: SEB Mailbag: Interesting twist on the old Nigerian Email Scam. We’ve been getting hit with more comment spam than usual lately. A good chunk of it appears to be people actually taking the time to type in the captcha by hand, but there appears to be at least one automated system that’s bypassing the captcha. So I’ve gone ahead and re-installed the Bad Behavior plugin . . . → Read More: Comment spam on the rise. It’s great that you guys think my blog generates enough traffic that you’re going through the trouble of not only typing in your comment spams by hand to get around the captcha requirement, but that you’re also taking the time to make the spam seem like an actual legitimate comment by making reference to the . . . → Read More: A note to the Comment Spammers. Spammers have no shame it seems. I just got the following email from a spammer: From: Michael Stopleganger Subject: [news] please pass this on…. This is a letter that is being passed around to help a little girl by the name of Kristen Stopleganger. She has cancer that we thought had been 100% removed but . . . → Read More: Despicable spam email of the day. I really hate unscrupulous websites. Sites like this one: TechBlog: Updated: Spam alert! Just say no to Quechup If you get an invitation from a friend inviting you to join a social networking site call Quechup, delete it. Joining up and making the wrong decisions in the process could result in the site spamming everyone . . . → Read More: Social networking site Quechup is sending spam in your name. |
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