Archive for Spam
Wow, I just almost fell for what I now assume was a phishing scam. It was an email that claimed to be from “Facebook Ads Team”; I didn’t (at first) look at the email address that was attached to that name. It told me that FB had received complaints about my ad (I’ve been running […]
Back in 2007, a couple of companies called Quechup and Tagged (among others) did this thing where they asked you...
I think it's interesting that so much spam is phrased in terms of heterosexual men making themselves better lovers. A...
Today's best spam starts out thusly: Hello, my name is Jason Carter and I am an Internet Rankings Engineer. I...
If you have a certain type of self-hosted blog (see below), I recommend doing a quick Google search for various...
Just got an odd piece of email spam. Google Translate says it's Latvian, and it claims to be from an...
I've been getting notes in email lately from spammers offering to write guest posts in my blog. The latest one...
For the moment, comments in my blog are working. But at any time, the spambots could hit the comment script...
Last week, the spambots hit my blog in force. Thousands of spam comments in a short period; enough of a...
Just discovered that a comment on my blog from Ted the other day got marked as spam by the TypePad...
A recent flood of comment spam has led to my turning off comments on this blog temporarily, until I figure...
I used to see stats that said something like 10% of all people browsing the web didn't have JavaScript enabled....