Most Trusted Bank Informs Me As Recipient of Beneficiary Fund

July 7th, 2006 Today I received an email from Sudhir Thirumurthy [sagthirumurthy@fastermail.com] with a subject which screamed 419 scam. However I hadn't received any from Singapore and by someone who is clearly of Indian origin.

September 18th, 2007 AdSense supports Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) for direct deposit of you AdSense income in 26 countries. Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) directly deposits into your bank account, in your local currency, to greatly speed up and simplify the payment process.

August 25th, 2007 Several people are having a bad experience with State Bank Credit Card, myself included. The whole operation smells, run by outside-minimally-paid agents and there are gaping holes in the system which can rob your blind.

February 10th, 2004 Goodmail - Index "Senders of volume email attach paid stamps to their outgoing messages. These encrypted stamps include verification of the sender's identity and require the sender to honor a "trusted unsubscribe" mechanism enforced by Goodmail Systems.

July 13th, 2006 Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Ruby, which can be exploited to bypass safe level protection and replace methods called in trusted level as well as close untainted directory streams. 1. An error in the handling of the "alias" functionality can be exploited to bypass the safe level protection and replace methods called in the trusted level.

February 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.

August 17th, 2006 Finally a clean-room implementation of Google's Page Rank Algorithm in Java, reverse-engineered from their numerous commentary on Page Rank (or is it Pigeon Rank?). public static int getPageRank(url) { // start off with a random low PR int pageRank = rand.getInt(0, 3); if ( isHostedOn('google.com', url) ) { pageRank++; } else if ( isHostedOn('microsoft.com', url) ) { pageRank--; } // Support valid pages if (isValidPage(url) ) { pageRank += 1; } tag_value['b'] = 1; tag_value['h2'] = 2; tag_value['h1'] = 3; tag_value['strong'] = -1; // W3C sux! pageRank = calculateTagsPR(tag_value, pagerank); // Sergey said good news sites have // lots of nested tables tablesOnPage = getTagCount('table'); if (tablesOnPage >= 50) { pageRank += 2; } if (pageRank >= 5) { pageRank = 4; // helps selling AdWords } if (linksFrom('mattcutts.com', url) >= 4) { // I link to "clean" sites only // ? Matt, Feb 2006 pagerank += 2; } pagerank += countBacklinks(url) / 10000; blacklist1 = getList('c:\chinese-government-censored.txt'); blacklist2 = getList('c:\larry-page-hatelist.txt'); if ( inArray(blacklist1, url) || inArray(blacklist2, url) ) { pageRank = 0; } d = dashesInUrl(url); pageRank = (d >= 3) ? pageRank -1 : pageRank + 1; if (inString(url, "how to build a bomb")) { // added on request.

June 30th, 2007 A UAE based site (Souq.com) is auctioning blank sheets of original watermarked 5 Rs Indian notes. The current bid is 79 AED.

August 31st, 2007 Tata Indicom now allows you to pay your bills online using your credit card or using your net banking account. As a Tata Indicom Broadband customer this is a big convenience for me.

April 21st, 2008 Here is a LinkedIn invitation I received from Elvis Ata (elvisata2001@yahoo.cn): Elvis Ata requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: Angsuman, DEAREST ONE PERMIT ME TO INFORM YOU OF MY DESIRE OF GOING INTO BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU.FOR THIS SIMPLE AND SINCERE BUSINESS. I AM ELVIS ATA THE ONLY CHILD OF LATE MR THOMAS ATA, MY FATHER WAS A VERY WEALTHY COCOA MERCHANT IN BOUAKE COTE DIVOIRE, BEFORE HE WAS SHOT BY THE REBELS ON ONE OF THEIR OUTING TO DISCUSS ON A BUSINESS.

July 16th, 2005 After Karl Rove, one of Jr. Bush's most trusted advisers, publicly outed an undercover CIA operative, David Lazarus of SF Gate takes it a step further by uncovering the full details of the operative, including her address, personally identifiable information and complete with a detailed map of her home.

May 1st, 2009 Neb. commission loses appeal on Internet call feesOMAHA, Neb. — A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling exempting Internet phone service provider Vonage Holdings Corp.

August 2nd, 2005 Christopher Abad, a research scientist with Cloudmark, a San Francisco-based spam filtering service provider spend time lurking (possibly using bots) in phishing communities and gained valuable understanding on their economies and social structure. To summarize the economy is still based on demand-and-supply (no surprise here) - "Phishing economies are self-organized merchants and consumers governed only by the laws of supply and demand".

April 30th, 2006 I have been using Akismet plugin for about a month. One of the key deficiency of the plugin is occassional false positives (falsely flagging non-spam as spam) & false negatives (failing to identify spam).

August 12th, 2007 Now I have seen it all. I received a nigerian scam as a comment spam on my blog.