Archive for the 'SPAM' Category

I’m sure we all get 10,000 of these a day. But this one was so stupid it was funny – no, I didn’t respond and neither should you! The federal bureau of investigation (FBI).Through our intelligence-monitoring network has discovered that the transaction that the bank contacted you previously was legal.Recently the fund has been legally [...]

It’s an amateurish attempt to get into your gmail account and steal whatever they can steal. It doesn’t mean it won’t work … send this to enough people and someone who hasn’t had their coffee might think it’s real. This one did make it past Gmail’s spam filters though. Here’s the header. That’s a giveaway [...]

A boatload of Twitter Spam is hitting cyberspace. Here’s how to avoid becoming quickly hated and having your account with Twitter falsely interrupted by a spammer who should, of course, be taken out and flogged. The scam is called Twitter Phishing and it happens when people think they’re signing in to Twitter but they’re signing [...]

Just got back in after some time playing around Veteran’s Day and had 2 email harvesting scam contacts waiting for me… one on a Gmail chat and one on Facebook. Both were similiar … saying my photo was on a site or I’d been tagged in a photo. These were from people I don’t normally [...]

While Mystery Shopping IS a legitimate industry, this one should have seemed bogus to start. People who put resumes on the big “job sites” or who get email are promised mystery shopping jobs. The person receives a $3800 check by COURIER (Fed Ex, UPS or other private courier to avoid the breaking POSTAL laws). They [...]

If you one or a thousand domains, you need to be aware of a new phishing scheme that’s trying to get your hard earned money. So if you are the registered owner of a domain name, you might want to be concerned about email claiming to be from your domain registrar, be sure you are [...]

I’ve been getting lots of Twitter Spam. That’s when people sign up for Twitter with a phony name, put some posts about how to get rich quick and a link to their recruiting site and then start following 10,000 people so the people get their email, fall over half dead at their luck in finding [...]

We knew professional spammers were self serving vermin, but this sort of proves it beyond much doubt. It’s sad that the innocent were taken in his last act of self centered evil! A teen aged girl survived despite wounds to run for help. ‘Spam King’ Shoots Wife, Daughter in Apparent Murder-Suicide The bodies of “Spam [...]

Watch out for this spam/scam email. Congratulations as we bring to your notice, Officially of the senate house federal Repuplic of Nigeria has chosen you by the board committe onappropriation and finance as one of the final recipients of this new yearcontract and inheritance file to celebrate the fiscal 2008 an ATM CARD hasbeen issued [...]

From Ronald Kessler If you’ve been on the internet for long… it should be old hat. “Don’t open email from strangers and don’t download the attachments!” That’s in addition to “have a firewall”, updated antivirus and antispyware programs,etc. The FBI is concerned because these “zombie networks” could be used in denial of service attacks on [...]