Trust the Midas touch?

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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Dell phishing scam

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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The scams are getting dumber

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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Reject those nosy email messages

MS Outlook uses a “tracking option” which enables the sender of an email to determine when the recipient has actually read it. If, like me, you find this “feature” an intrusion of privacy, you can do something about it.

I simply use the following regular expression pattern in my spam filtering software:

REJECT = ^disposition-notification-to: .*

While someone requesting a “read receipt” doesn’t technically make it spam, the end result is good enough for me; their email just gets deleted before it gets into my inbox.

Scamming the scammers

A few weeks ago I got a lovely email from an aspiring Russian bride who wanted to get to “know” me, so to speak. Even though her return address was in Mexico, her sincerity was truly touching:

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