Yahoo Spamming this Blog?July 8th, 2005 I received a strange comment (spam) from an user nicknamed John complimenting this blog. He provided his web address as www.yahoo.com and gave his email as john@yahoo.com.
Using RentACoder To Outsource Spam Software DevelopmentJuly 5th, 2006 RenACoder is used to outsource projects at riduculously low prices. RentACoder, in my experience, often contains dubious project postings which are clearly for unethical purposes.
Comment Guard Pro in Final Stages of DevelopmentNovember 4th, 2007 Comment Guard Pro is finally turning out to be the uber anti-comment spam protection plugin I dreamt of; everything you would ever want in a comment spam protection plugin and more, much more. The plugin itself is composed of several modules, each of which can be individually enabled / disabled, tweaked and configured all from the user interface.
How To Report Spam From GMail AccountJune 23rd, 2008 Would you believe if I said that GMail does not provide an email address to report spam? After some investigation I found how you can report GMail spam to Google. You have received spam from GMail user in your GMail account
This one is simple to address.
How To Stop Yahoo Instant Messenger SpamApril 13th, 2008 Yahoo Instant Messenger is notorious for sending unsolicited commercial instant messages and from questionable sources. The yahoo instant messenger client doesn't provide an way, last I checked, to stop such spams.
Landmark judgement of 1 Billion $ awarded to ISP in Anti-SPAM suitDecember 18th, 2004 A wonderful christmas/hanukkah present I must say :)
http://tech.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Spam-Lawsuit.html
Looks like if you are in Iowa you can claim damages of 10 $ per spam! Wondering if I should shift my residence to IOWA. Looking at the amount of spam I get I could be a millionaire in no time :)
419 Nigerian Scam Hits The BlogsFebruary 8th, 2008 With the popularity of blog spamming, can Nigerian scammers (and spammers) be left far behind? Here is an interesting attempt to scam, posted as a comment on blog against this article:
Name: frank taylor | Email: frank****@yahoo.com | URL: http://KindAttention | IP: 41.210.17.190 | Feb 8, 9:06 AM | Type: normal [[A (sub)human being actually took the trouble to spam me!]]
Bujumbura Refugees Camp
Room 32 Liberia Camp 3 Accra Ghana
West Africa
Kind Attention,
Greetings , my name is Frank Taylor .I am making this contact to you in good faith and hope that it will transpire into mutual relationship for now and in future to come .I am the eldest son of late Sir Beuford Taylor a formal gold merchant and also a know politician in my country Liberia. After the fall of the government, my father with other top government officials was alleged financial losses and detained by the Interim government of the present administration, on 23rd 2003 November, unfortunately he died in the detention custody since then the government has been accusing my family with strange accusation.
Comment Guard Pro: Over 1 Million Comment Spam BlockedDecember 20th, 2007 Ever since we installed Comment Guard Pro, anti comment-spam plugin on this blog, it stopped over 1 millon spam comments (1001011 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin in 335 days 8 hours 38 minutes. 99.338 % of the comments received during this time were spam.) so far (look in the right sidebar for latest stats).
Yahoo Photos is Closing.. So What?September 7th, 2007 You too may have received a sad notice from Yahoo Photos:
Dear Angsuman,
Thank you so much for using Yahoo! Photos. Before we go, we can help you move your photos to Flickr, Yahoo!'s other photo sharing service.
USA and China Tops Dirty Dozen List of SpammersApril 20th, 2006 The US and China are competing for leadership as the top spam relaying countries. This is a leadership which I am sure US wouldn't mind relinquising and it is improving.
Comment Guard Pro Beta 0.3 ReleasedFebruary 22nd, 2007 Comment Guard 0.3 Beta is a bug fix release. Very occassionally the plugin would request a valid commenter to submit his comment again.
The Death of Akismet (WordPress Spam Prevention Plugin)?May 28th, 2006 Akismet is a spam prevention plugin from the WordPress author, Matt Mullenweg. It uses collective wisdom in filtering spams.
Song: Witty Take on Spam - I've Got MailDecember 21st, 2007 I've got mail is a witty take on spam from Richter Scales. It is a 2007 CARA Nominee in Best Humor Song category.
WordPress Comment Spamming - Over 50% Contributed by Top 100 IP AddressesMay 29th, 2006 I briefly reviewed my corpus of 4569 comment spams in my Akismet queue. Of them over 53% of the spam has been contributed by Top 100 spamming IP addresses.
Akismet, WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin, is GoodApril 7th, 2006 Akismet is WordPress hosted spam filter from Matt M. I have been using it for about a week now.
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May 6th, 2008 at 7:52 am
[...] about Yahoo (look in the remaining portion of email address), looking at the way it aids spammer these days, I am concerned that Yacrosoft or Microhoo may turn out to an evil axis of power. What [...]
August 15th, 2008 at 5:38 am
LoL, there is a small and simple setting to avoid getting any spam at all, go to Yahoo Messenger then go to Preferences, then go to Ignore list tab, then make sure you select “Ignore anyone who is not on Messenger List.” then apply and Ok. Then you won’t recieve anymore spam messages from weird bots.
Hope that now you’ll be having fun again using Yahoo Messenger
Have a nice day.