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Monday, 7 July 2008
I got spammed by the giant of Redmond a couple of weeks ago, offering me “cool prizes”, just to search the web using their struggling search engine.
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Monday, 30 June 2008
Stumbled on this today, while investigating dodgy user agent strings:
“Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.”
A distributed service which tracks and prosecutes spammers who scrape email addresses from websites?
Looks very promising and definitely worth looking into.
Monday, 16 June 2008
I received this “mainsleaze” spam a few days ago from Midas. Now this is supposed to be a reputable, mainstream company but stupid actions such as this are likely to damage their reputation for quite a while:
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Monday, 9 June 2008
I received this email, claiming to be from Dell, and offering to give me a free laptop, just for answering a short survey:
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Monday, 12 May 2008
Some knuckleheads from the other side of the world tried scamming me (along with a few million other people) a couple of weeks ago.
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