- March 8, 2010
- Comment Spam Revisited
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet, Technology
- Tagged with: address, advert, Akismet, comment, data, Database, email, Farm, filter, forum, good, homepage, index, IP address, Mailwasher, market, Photo, Plugin, program, project, Promise, service, Spam, spam filter, TanTanNoodles, Wikipedia, WordPress
For no reason …other than a try-out and also the current anti-spam plugins miss the odd bit of comment spam, I’ve now switched off TanTanNoodles’ Spam filter and am giving WP-SpamFree another try plus another plugin, AVH. I’ve left Akismet running regardless. WP-SpamFree This now promises a lot, so it’s worth another shot. Two years [...]
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- July 29, 2009
- Goodbye Bollochio?
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet
- Tagged with: Bollox, comment, Dog, domain, email, family, good, Google, google treasure chest, History, investigation, Killer, Machine, Mailwasher, New York, Pacific, Pacific Webworks, PWW, Revolution, scam, scammers, screenshot, service, Spam, Treasure, Utah, whois
Bollochio: an Introduction In an effort to test the spam un-subscription services of the spammers, I’ve decided to try and remove Bollochio, my nom-de-spam for some of the Utah-based scam-meisters, as detailed here, google-revolution-different-name-same-scam , for instance. The first occurence of Bollochio that I chose to report on is here: http://…google-revolution-…comment-1779 which was the webreviewagency.com [...]
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- June 16, 2009
- Google Revolution, Different Name, Same Scam!
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet
- Tagged with: Acai, address, bank, Bastard, BBC, Bollox, business, comment, Complaint, Conditions, Contact, creative, credit card, Criminal, data, Design, Durham, email, England, Express, fraud, game, Geordie, Google, google treasure chest, Head, hell, Historical, house, index, Internet, investigation, knowledge, legal, Mailwasher, Malta, malware, man, mind, MLM, money, msnbc, Murder, nation, Office, Operating, poison, Police, possession, privacy, Products, Protest, Pyramid, race, Resource, Revolution, rubbish, Salt Lake City, scam, scams, scum, securecartcenter, service, Spam, spring, state, system, Tea, terror, The Matrix, threat, Times, town, Treasure, Treasure Chest, TSB, Twat, United Kingdom, USA, Utah, Video, Website, Wikipedia, Yahoo, YouTube
Introduction My email spambuster Mailwasher Pro is doing overtime since I posted my investigation into Google Treasure Chest and the Robert G Allen Grants swindle. In this second investigation, I showed how the email spam system links the various scam systems together. That is: By signing up for one sytem, I started receiving email spam [...]
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- May 6, 2009
- Robert G Allen, Grants, and a Credit Card Slimeball
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet
- Tagged with: Acai, address, advert, America, Amsterdam, auction, Audio, Austria, authority, bank, book, breed, browser, business, Christian, citizen, comment, communication, Conditions, Construct, Contact, Crap, creative, credit card, crisis, cyprus, data, debt, DIY, DNS, domain, Ebay, Electronic, email, failure, family, financial, Flood, Forbidden, forge, forum, Fossil Fuel, fuck, future, gaffer, game, Gibraltar, God, good, Google, Google Kit, google treasure chest, GoogleTreasureChest, graph, Hack, Happy, Head, Health, HOPE, house, Information, Internet, investigation, judge, laugh, Mailwasher, man, management, market, money, mp3, nation, network, OEM, Office, optimism, pantherssl, party, Picture, Plugin, poop, president, privacy, problem, program, project, Protect, proxy, public, QUERY, race, registration, Republican, ripoff, Robert Allen, rubbish, scam, securecartcenter, SEO, service, Shit, Software, Sound, Spam, Sport, state, Success, Times, TinyMCE, toilet, town, Treasure, trial, United States, Unsolicited, USA, visitor, Viz, Wahay, Website, whois, Wikipedia, WordPress, World, WW1, WW2, YouTube
Introduction This is a small investigation into mail lists and scammy companies. Some companies are fine, but I always go by the adage to judge a man by the company he keeps. This shows how lists spread far beyond their initial purpose when you sign up for something. It also shows how the privacy policies [...]
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- January 21, 2009
- Spam Disguised as Windows Live
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet, Technology
- Tagged with: advert, anger, Bastard, BBC, Censor, China, citizen, communication, Contact, domain, Doom, email, fear, filter, friend, FUD, game, gmail, good, Government, Guantanamo, HOPE, index, Information, Internet, Mailwasher, market, Microsoft, Obama, Outlook, Picture, privacy, shame, Software, Spam, state, technology, THEFT, traffic, trial, virus, Vista, Weird, whois, Windows, Xin Net
Below is the plain text of an email spam I got today. I always view as plain text and all my messages are spam checked, in various ways. Some POP3 stuff comes in via Mailwasher Pro, which I’ve mentioned before; other stuff I forward through gmail and use the spam filters in there, which are [...]
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- November 22, 2008
- Canadian Pharmacy in Bagdad?
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet
- Tagged with: address, Adobe, advert, anger, book, browser, Chrome, dodgy, domain, Download, Drug, Egypt, email, experiment, fault, Firefox, Fish, Flash, Florida, forum, freeze, Google, google search, index, India, Iraq, Java, Mailwasher, New York, nod32, price, privacy, problem, Products, Registrant, Rome, Software, Spam, state, Texas, Trojan, Turkey, tyre, United Kingdom, vulnerability, warning, Website, Xin Net
Following on from my earlier experiment with “The Complainerator“, I got a very similar message from myself to myself again… It’s the address I used to dig into XIN NET, whose automated systems now seem to think I really, really need some drugs from a Canadian (United Kingdom for me) Pharmacy. This is the email [...]
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- November 11, 2008
- The State is in Danger, says a Return Spam Message from Eurosoftware
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet
- Tagged with: address, advert, anger, BBC, Buddhism, Buddhist, California, Captcha, China, communication, computer, Contact, domain, Doom, Download, email, filter, friend, future, good, index, laugh, Mailwasher, market, Microsoft, mind, pcpro, Picture, price, privacy, race, scientist, service, Software, Spam, state, storm, technology, university, Xin Net
Following on from my post a few days ago about EuroSoftware, I had an interesting spam today. I used “The Complainerator” to automate some abuse mails to see what happened. Well… fortunately I used my old email spam sucker-inner trap as the “from” address, because that’s where today’s spam came to. Addressed from myself – to [...]
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- October 24, 2008
- How Many Blog Spam Bastards Have I Actually Blocked?
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet, Technology
- Tagged with: Akismet, attack, Bastard, business, comment, computer, data, Database, Download, email, experiment, failure, filter, functionality, good, Happy, htaccess, index, Mailwasher, Picture, Plugin, program, registration, sabre, Screen, Software, Spam, TanTanNoodles, Times, Website, Wikipedia, WordPress
Well it’s hard to say, actually. I run this site on WordPress which dynamically uses a backend database and various plugins. The thing is that I chop and change the various blocking systems for testing, failures, experiments and even because I like the name! There a host of reasons. But my website has had millions [...]
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- October 16, 2008
- Spoofed Emails Make Me Look Like Dodgy Software Saleman
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet, Technology
- Tagged with: address, attack, California, communication, dodgy, domain, email, English, ESET, failure, Flood, Foetus, Genuine, good, Google, index, IP address, Korea, Mailwasher, New York, night, Photo, Picture, Pipex, power, price, problem, public, SEO, Shit, Software, Spam, trouble, Twat, warning, Website, Weird, whois, Yahoo
Less than a week ago, Virgin suffered an email outage of quite some time because of a flood of emails pouring in. Spam causes Virgin email outage. Just afterwards, I had some domain problems with my ISP which are now resolved. ADSL, Pipex Blocks my Web Access, Weirdly! Now, starting about midnight last night, I [...]
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- September 12, 2008
- Scum Debt Relief Spammers from China via Live Spaces
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet
- Tagged with: address, advert, business, China, debt, DNS, domain, Download, email, Environment, Firefox, forge, Genuine, God, GoDaddy, Google, graph, Hosting, index, Information, investigation, IP address, Mailwasher, Microsoft, money, Office, Panama, Picture, public, race, rubbish, scum, service, Shit, Spam, Spamming, spring, Texas, Website, whois, Yahoo
I decided to have a small investigation on (some!) of today’s spam… I noticed a lot of similarities in my Mailwasher Pro output: Forged/spoofed “from” address “Debt free” or “get out of debt” or some permutation thereof in the subject field ALL have a non-obfuscated ~spaces.live.com web address as the link 2 line body: e.g. [...]
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- August 16, 2008
- Email Spam Trojans Hiding on Websites as MSNBC Breaking News Items
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet
- Tagged with: address, Amman, browser, Contact, country, Design, Dialog, disaster, DNS, dodgy, domain, Download, email, Enjoy, ESET, Europe, evidence, Firefox, God, good, graph, Graphics, Hack, Hacked, Head, headline, homepage, HOPE, index, Iraq, Mailwasher, market, Microsoft, msnbc, nation, night, Nightly, nod32, petition, Photo, president, privacy, program, Registrant, registration, sense, Spam, SQL, state, Task, Trojan, Tsunami, Video, virus, warning, Website, whois
For the past few weeks I suppose everyone has had a bit of email spam with this in the “From” and “Subject”: msnbc.com: BREAKING NEWS: There then follows a sucker headline which is obviously pants. They all have a spoofed link for http://breakingnews.msnbc.com which points to somewhere else, quite often a html document on the [...]
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