New Spamming Technique: Yahoo! Messenger Spamming From Myfreecamhost

November 12th, 2007 I am sick and tired of Yahoo Messenger Spam initiated primarily by Myfreecamhost and now joined by few new initiates too. Everyday, at the most inppropriate times I will get one or more messages from Yahoo Messenger asking me to watch some random female's webcam on myfreecamhost for free (obviously scam).

November 5th, 2007 Yahoo Instant Messenger isn't directly available on Linux. However there are several alternatives.

May 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.

June 10th, 2005 Let's begin with an example. Name: Stanford scientists takes first step towards producing renewable source of insulin producing cells from brain-derived ...

November 28th, 2005 Imagine a pickpocket leaving a note in the pocket they have picked informing the victim that they are very sorry about picking their pocket and what he can do to rectify the situation. Neil found ethical spammers in his wiki (read about wiki spamming) who left a note after they spammed: < !– We leave content intact.

April 28th, 2005 Sometimes I find people evangelizing some religion through comment spamming. Is it spamming? I think it is.

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.

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.

January 9th, 2008 Google dutifully provides a forum for each product / API they launch. They also graciously decided to display 3 recent articles from their forum on their highly ranked product page.

February 1st, 2005 Yesterday I found some (around 20) irrelevant medical ads in my spam-trap :) Today I got a comment: "This site has --expletive deleted-- nasty hidden script (which prevents me from spamming)" - wrote some exasperated kiddie-comment-spammer in his comments. You bet! It appears that the spammers have resorted to trackback spamming to get around captcha.

March 3rd, 2008 I have received dozens of spams from ContactThem Network affiliates who follow this simple template: Hi, We've seen your website at http://blog.taragana.com/ [Full URL here] and we love it! We see that your traffic rank is [######] and your link popularity is [##]. Also, you have been online since [#/#/####].

April 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.

December 24th, 2008 Yahoo has reportedly stopped developing any version of yahoo messenger for Windows Vista. Though it was officially confirmed on 24th Oct, 2008, we were still thinking that it is another of a warning that will not be put to effect.

July 21st, 2006 Normally we don't associate Evite requests with spamming. That trust has been broken.

October 23rd, 2005 After my ill-fated attempt to use latest version of Yahoo Instant Messenger (The Malware), I manually removed all traces of Yahoo Instant Messenger from my system. One thing however persisted - their search engine plugin for Firefox.