Spamming is a successful strategyMarch 23rd, 2005 According to a survey conducted by security firm Mirapoint and market research company the Radicati Group, nearly a third of e-mail users have clicked on links in spam messages. One in ten users have bought products advertised in spams.
Bye bye comment spam!December 6th, 2004 Finally I took the step to get rid of comment spam without time consuming moderation, which I have been doing so far. My quest first started with a simple solution - moderation of all comments.
Spam + Donation = Spamation? Is it acceptable?March 2nd, 2009 I got this interesting spam in my comments today:
Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children ugandf
What do I do?
I figured someone who can stoop so low as to spam is not likely to donate his ill-gotten wealth.
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.
New horizons in spamming aka SpamBlog ( Rick H needs to be cloned? )February 12th, 2005 I accidentally stumbled upon a site ( spam-guard[dot]blogspot[dot]com ) which exists for the sole purpose of spamming. It is a spam blog or splog!
For sometime spammers have targeted blogs, first through comment spam and now increasingly through trackback spam.
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 :)
Medical Terms for WordPress Blacklist To Protect You From Most Drug SpamsSeptember 28th, 2007 Just copy-n-paste the following word list to Comment Blacklist section in Options->Discussion (in WordPress administration) for protection against the most common types of medical / drug related comment spams. The list was derived by analyzing hundreds of thousands of spams.
Coward Spammer Breaks From Prison And Kills His Family And Thankfully HimselfJuly 28th, 2008 Only four days after escaping from a federal minimum-security prison in Florence, Colorado "Spam King" Eddie Davidson, 35, killed his wife, baby daughter and finally himself. Davidson shot and killed his wife in her former home in Bennett, Colorado along with his three-year-old daughter.
Massive web trawl nets spammersMarch 12th, 2005 A 'comprehensive' sweep of the net by 70 law enforcement organisations from 26 countries should help authorities combat phishers, spammers and scammers, says a leading consumer protection agency. It sounds too good to be true and effective.
Bad Karma by Spam Karma FilterDecember 24th, 2004 I have been unable to submit a comment in a site with spam karma enabled. So I wrote a comment in the spam karma plugin site.
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).
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.
Scammer's With English Deficiency SyndromeJuly 5th, 2006 Today I received a spam (attempting to get my IP address and user accounts of my work machine / server) which stands out for its novelty as well as extremely poor execution. I think the spammers will have much greater chance of success by taking an introductory course in English.
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.
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March 3rd, 2005 at 10:42 pm
Or just force your mail client to discard the html and ‘rich text’ content of all mails. If someone wants to send me a html file, they can zip it up and attach it to the mail…
March 9th, 2005 at 4:01 am
Yes, one: read emails as plain text. It has the additional benefit of warding off many viruses.
March 17th, 2005 at 7:24 pm
@Jonas and @Denis
True. But you also miss many colorful messages from your friends and important newsletters etc.
As Rabindranath Tagore (famous Bengali poet and Nobel laureate) once said in a small poem (roughly translated):
“We close the door to lies, truth says you have also closed the door for me”
@Jonas
I like the idea of asking friends to send zipped version of html. But how will I tell all my clients