Archive for the 'SPAM' Category

I guess now we know where all that United Nations money goes… to people who didn’t ask for it. Or at least that’s the impression you’d get if you believe this spam and scam phishing email.
I hope you won’t believe it! Undoubtedly someone will. I hope they won’t lose too much.
UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
IN CONJUNCTION WITH […]

I just sent another spam comment on the blog into the fiery cyberspace inferno reserved for these messages.
It was unique so I thought I’d mention it.
To look “human” it went like this…
 Hi, my name is Wellbhutrin.
I have a website about Wellbhutrin…
What amazing lengths these creatures will go!

No, I’m not claiming I have a great blog, far from it. But I do claim that the Business Opportunities Blog  is a great blog!
For that reason it’s the envy of spammers. You know, those thieves who are too stupid, lazy, and criminal to actually build something themselves that a decent person would want to […]

For the record there are legitimate MySpace marketing tools like The Myspace Bank and Badder Adder but some just can’t be limited by ethics of any sort so MySpace is suing one for unspecified damages over millions of SPAM messages sent to MySpace Users.
Reuters reports that Media Breakaway exec Scott Richter is being sued for […]

The Coca Cola company has a web page that lists various rumors flying around the internet using the Coca Cola name to get people to divulge personal data or void their participation in the Do Not Call Registry. Some of these fly around the internet as job offers, as “paid for a survey” offers, etc.
Here’s […]

James Jones’ blog tuned me in to this amazing blog entry from, of all places, the Washington Post. It’s how one of their writers - Brian Krebs - found a site designed to look exactly like ebay’s login page so they can steal all your personal information.
Oddly enough, he even dug up a message on […]

The Scotsman reports that Google will warn it’s users if links in its search results will expose the user to potential spyware or scumare that will clog up their computer.
Customers who click on “dangerous keywords” such as “free screensavers”, “Download Yahoo messenger” or “Bearshare” will initially see a simple alert, with warnings becoming more detailed […]

It’s hard to believe how many spam attacks even a little blog like this gets.
A few months ago Akismet was installed to automatically intercept spam comments and it’s intercepted 16351 comment spams in that time which otherwise would have to be deleted by hand.
If you have blog, you know that the big comment spammers […]