A phish sent around this morning threatened to suspend our AOL account if we didn’t update our records (our billing information is apparently out of order). As if.
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This Week in Spam
By 7.22.06
“Hot and new Impress your girl with prolonged hardness, plentiful explosions and increased duration.”
Doteasy Wrongly Punishes Pixel Pusher
By 7.19.06
The internet is often stigmatized for its tyranny of the crowds but just the reverse can be true when it comes to spam.
This Week in Spam; You, Me, and Cialis Makes Three
By 7.14.06
A selection of items gleaned from our junk mail box and brought into the glare of day.
This Week in Spam
By 7.7.06
Another week, another thousand in the spam compost. If we had a penny for every European lottery we won this week, we could probably buy a candy bar.
Letters to the Editor: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
By 7.5.06
Some would envy Eilidh, being showered with golden jewelry by a male admirer.
Spam Me a River
By 7.5.06
A new study finds that people are 280 times more likely to click on porn spam than pharma. The analysis by Ciphertrust found click through rates of 5.6% for sex site emails, versus .02% for pharmaceutical spam. In third place were ads for Rolex watches, at 0.0075%,
PIN Block Phish, Basted
By 6.12.06
Oh, this is just classic. Phishers are now trying to capitalize on the PIN block crisis.
Nigerian Email Scammers Go Postal
By 6.5.06
What happens when the ubiquity of Nigerian email scams gets to the point when even trusting myopic grannies start wildly flipping the double deuce at the screen when they see yet another “URGENT ASSISTANCE FROM MR. KOBE UBUNTU” email in their inbox? They bring it down a notch on the luddite ladder:
The News Can, and Will, Kill You
By 6.2.06
• 4th worst spammer in the world gets $1 million fine and is stripped of his powers to make your penis bigger. [CT]
Spam in the House of The Lord
By 5.24.06
Just received this spam from the Crusader Lending Corp. It sounds awesome. We’re going to go out and re-fi our church right away.
Antispam Spammer Gets Spammed Out of Business
By 5.19.06
We pretty much knew this was going to end in tears when we first heard of antispam company Blue Security’s scheme to start spamming spammers. The idea was technically sound: market a software that automatically floods addresses associated with spammers with millions of emails, shutting down their servers and spam capabilities.
Email Users Incompetent At Spying Out Scams
By 5.16.06
We saw this great post indicating exactly how clueless the average person is when trying to detect spam of phishing schemes in their in-box. The blogger launched a site called SpamorHam.org to see how savvy Internet users were across the board when trying to detect email fraud. Unfortunately, users of the site are failing the test in overwhelming rates.
Hilarious Spamedy Sends Us Into Fits of Clicking ‘Junk,’ Checking Dictionary
By 5.6.06
Today we received a spam inquiring if we would like to see, “cute pulchritudinous teens hardcore *******” …emphasis subtracted, shall we say.
H&R Block Sells User’s Info to Spammers?
By 4.26.06
Cior used H&R Block’s online service on April 9th to do her taxes and everything went just hunky-dory, except for one, small, dangling modifer:
HOWTO: Block Text Message Spam
By 4.20.06
On Tuesday, several readers wrote in complaining about receiving text message spam. Toby says that T-Mobile’s customer service refunded the 20 cents the spam cost as well as showing him how to keep future unwanted messages away. He writes:
