Beware Grovo, Badoo, and other services that want access to your email
Back in 2007, a couple of companies called Quechup and Tagged (among others) did this thing where they asked you...
Archive for Spam
Manliness satisfies? (NSFW)
I think it's interesting that so much spam is phrased in terms of heterosexual men making themselves better lovers. A...
No lab grown diamonds for me?
Today's best spam starts out thusly: Hello, my name is Jason Carter and I am an Internet Rankings Engineer. I...
Your blog may’ve been invisibly hijacked (but don’t panic)
If you have a certain type of self-hosted blog (see below), I recommend doing a quick Google search for various...
Latvian multi-connection spam
Just got an odd piece of email spam. Google Translate says it's Latvian, and it claims to be from an...
“I will spam your readers, at no cost to you!”
I've been getting notes in email lately from spammers offering to write guest posts in my blog. The latest one...
Be careful posting comments in my blog
For the moment, comments in my blog are working. But at any time, the spambots could hit the comment script...
Comments
Last week, the spambots hit my blog in force. Thousands of spam comments in a short period; enough of a...
Missing comments?
Just discovered that a comment on my blog from Ted the other day got marked as spam by the TypePad...
Too much spam
A recent flood of comment spam has led to my turning off comments on this blog temporarily, until I figure...
Do y’all leave JavaScript enabled?
I used to see stats that said something like 10% of all people browsing the web didn't have JavaScript enabled....
Building a better spambot
I've been remiss in deleting spam from my moderated-comments queue in the past month-plus; as of yesterday, there were over...