In the days before email filters became ubiquitous, spammers used to tell recipients If you don't want it, just hit DELETE
. Email users quite rightly pointed out that they had better things to do than spend all day deleting chaff from their mailboxes, and deployed filters to 'hit delete' for them. This didn't exactly please the spammers, who now go to immense lengths to sneak their messages past filters and try to trick the recipient into reading them.
April 2007 Archives
Just hit 'unsubscribe'
22 April 2007 - 02:49 PM | PermalinkContinue reading 'Just hit 'unsubscribe''
Critique of Pure Unreason
16 April 2007 - 11:38 AM | PermalinkI'm always bewildered by what passes for logic in spam disclaimers, but this one may have set a new standard:
This is not a Spam. We take your email adress from open source!
The spam itself is in English (almost), but advertises a site that is entirely in Russian. Because really, if you've just started a forum about psoriasis for Russian speakers, who better to advertise it to than people who don't speak a word of Russian?
Either the Eastern European propensity for joe-jobs has reached new heights, or the sender's own psoriasis has reached his brain.
Update [18.04.2007] - This looks increasingly like a joe-job, as more recent spams advertising the site take care to stress that the maintainers have 'bulletproof' hosting, as if inviting anti-spammers to try to get them closed down.
Storm Worm is back
14 April 2007 - 07:11 AM | PermalinkA few days ago, I noticed a sudden flurry of viral email, featuring messages with subjects that either hinted at romance ("The Time for Love", "I Would Dream"), or war ("USA Just Have Started World War III", "Iran Just Have Started World War III") or malware mayhem ("Spyware Detected!", "Worm Detected!"). Then the new virus definitions kicked in and I didn't see them any more.
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Up rode the squatter
10 April 2007 - 10:45 PM | PermalinkI received an interesting message today, titled Business opportunity for somedomain.eu;
and ostensibly sent by someone in Luxembourg. The domain mentioned in the subject (which was not really 'somedomain.eu') is the '.eu' counterpart to a '.com' domain that I own, and the message went as follows:
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Existential crisis
04 April 2007 - 09:20 PM | PermalinkSomething odd seems to be happening to the world of stock spam at the moment. It's almost as if the spammers themselves weren't quite sure what to do next.
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