Today I had an e-mail from the “BNP IT Warfare Unit”. Actually I had 10 e-mails from them, all addressed to the Crawley UAF address.
Entries Tagged as 'Spam'
Spam, spam, spam
April 25th, 2006 · Comments Off on Spam, spam, spam · Technology
What is going on? I go away for a couple of hours to install Firefox and watch the Arsenal game and come back to find 23 spam comments caught by Akismet and another 13 which slipped through to be moderated. I suppose its good that WordPress was suspicious enough to flag them for moderation, but […]
Bad e-mail day
February 15th, 2006 · Comments Off on Bad e-mail day · Life
I got home from work today to find 12 e-mails waiting for me. 7 were just spam/advertising Of those 3 were what I would call dodgy – software for 20% of the list price, or obscure mails with just a link to a geocities URL 3 were fraudulent phishing attempts – two purporting to be […]
Zen poetry
November 29th, 2005 · Comments Off on Zen poetry · Life
I just received an e-mail with the title “Your dick is too small. Bigger it now!” (Now thats what I call targetted spam. I don’t know whether to be impressed or offended by the thoroughness of their market research) Anyway the body of the email is this: fascinate evening suddenly. parents raise hard anybody? shining […]
An end to spam?
August 21st, 2005 · Comments Off on An end to spam? · Technology
Spam is with us, and doesn’t look like going away any day soon, but as this article on Slashdot discusses, one aspect of it might start to diminish, and that is spam blogs or “splogs”. It seems that Blogger is one of the most affected providers, and one of the biggest culprits, and they are […]
