Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Well here… on my desktop lives the face of my common spam. Mostly drug-related: soma, ultram, phentermine, valium, topomax, fioricet, cialis, levitra, carisoprodol, ambien, xanax, and of course viagra. Once in a blue moon… phone sex. Does that even exist anymore?
Based on diligent research (wikipedia) here’s the TOP TEN [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
We’ve been getting pummeled by spam comments for the past day… if you don’t see your comment, please resend it! So where does all this crap come from? Here’s an interesting interactive World Threat Atlas from ThreatExpert. It identifies the source countries for malware. China (27.7%), Russia (26.95%) and the [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Honeywell had it right in this vintage magazine ad from 1981. Email: confounding blasts of out-of-control electrons. Sometimes it’s useful, most of the time it’s anatomically and/or financially incorrect.
Back in 2003, tech blogger Paul Soltoff wrote about his predictions for email. There’s a tendency when one predicts the future to focus on [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2007 by Baxter
Tags: spam, comics
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Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Baxter
It’s a snowy day here in the frozen tundra, HQ to SensoryMetrics. So i decided to catch up on my very full inbox… Many of the emails are really puzzling!
Tags: spam, beagle-mail, comic-life, comics
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Posted on December 2nd, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
Lately, this site has been getting swamped with spam comments. The majority of them are automatically filtered out by Askimet (thank God) however, there still are quite a few that manage to squeak through. Fortunately, we’re not quite hitting the numbers reported by our fellow bloggers (445K spam comments a year), but nevertheless [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
For the past three weeks I’ve been getting spam email with the subject “greeting card sent to you..” Of course, as soon as you open the email, it’s evident that it’s an IP address link (HIGH ALERT FOR PIRATE ATTACK!) So, I’ve been ignoring them, and guess what, the byproduct is that I’ll [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
Ever been tempted to add your email address to a site just because it asks you to and it looks like it’s going somewhere interesting but you’re not sure if you should trust the site?
That’s where Guerrilla Mail comes in to save the day. Don’t risk giving out your email just to continue through a [...]
Popularity: 31%
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Posted on March 20th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
I just received this nasty email with the title “Dispute Transaction”. It just triggered within me an instant reaction. I guess I never trusted PayPal that much so when I saw the email I figured, “Darn those guys! They’ve messed up again!” So I instantly hit the ‘dispute this’ link and then started putting my [...]
Popularity: 45%
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