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Enter Ethical Spammers; Is Spamming going Mainstream?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.
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I think it is.
Bye Bye Yahoo Messenger...No Thanks To Your SpamNovember 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).
"This site has nasty hidden script"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.
ContactThem Network Perfects Distributed SpammingMarch 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 [#/#/####].
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Skype 2.5 Heuristic Stealth Mode CrackedMay 17th, 2006 Skype 2.5 introduced strong stealth techniques in the software to make it harder to detect and block using ip filtering techniques. Unfortunately it has been cracked.
Using Evite For SpammingJuly 21st, 2006 Normally we don't associate Evite requests with spamming. That trust has been broken.
New Spamming Technique: Yahoo! Messenger Spamming From MyfreecamhostNovember 5th, 2007 Either Yahoo! Messenger sponsors spammers (not that would surprise me) or Myfreecamhost has found a loophole in Yahoo Instant Messenger. I am daily receiving half a dozen, most likely automated, Yahoo instant messages from various random email id's on myfreecamhost.
How To Use Yahoo Messenger on Linux (MSN, ICQ, IRC, Google Talk...)November 5th, 2007 Yahoo Instant Messenger isn't directly available on Linux. However there are several alternatives.
Hunting Spammers: The Legal WayAugust 28th, 2005 Four Spammers down, hundreds to go. James R. Schaffer, Jeffrey A.
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.
Solving Spam Problem The Russian WayAugust 2nd, 2005 Russia’s most notorious spammer, Vardan Kushnir, 35, was found dead in his apartment in downtown Moscow on Monday, July 25. Someone repeatedly smashed his head with a heavy object and then ransacked his entire apartment according to authorities.
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July 29th, 2004 at 2:49 am
I have tried all the software solutions to twarting spam. I have yet to see one that works as good as simply owning a domain and creating many email addresses. One for each site I visit. Like the one I used here. If I start getting spam from that address, I simply forward it to null@null.net and that’s that. I have about 30 email addresses generating well over 250 spams a day. They are all being forwarded to null@null.net (Sure hope no one ever gets that address).
I *NEVER* give out my main email address to anyone! All the non spam addresses get forwarded to my real email account so I can read them and respond to them. Sure, at that point my real address get’s sent out. However, it’s not accidently published on the web. At least not by posting it on a blog or a web store.
October 15th, 2004 at 5:31 am
I facing the same problem. The new genre of spam that I noticed was that a bunch of unrelated words were pushed in at the end of the e-mail. These words are really rare words gathered from different contexts.
Do you have any suggestions for it?