- The Problem Of Blog Spam
Here’s a relatively new site/blog combo I’m very familiar with on the “fix credit file” topic. It doesn’t have Akismet installed to kill spam (though that’s good) so all comments are set to be moderated. My point in all this is that the site’s about a month old and already getting spammers trying to leave [...]
- Law Student Gets Scammed From Craigslist
I guess it’s not only uneducated people who get taken in by scams. This fellow was a law student at a major Ivy League Law School! Again, the scam was posted on Craigslist! It’s worth reading the whole article. From the Washington City Paper An intriguing Craigslist job ad turned up on June 21 of [...]
- Free Spam Checking Tool Boosts Business Email Deliverability
Here’s a free tool that will help small businesses on the net deliver email more productively to their customers and not get their communications trashed as “SPAM”. Spam is a bigger and bigger problem nowadays. Recently RalphWilson, Paul Myers, and other Net marketing gurus havewritten about the problems that spam is causing honest, hardworking Net [...]
- You’ve Been Approved For $8.3 Million From the United Nations! Really!
Because the United Nations has nothing better to do than award millions of dollars to people who’ve never applied for the money and, in any case, wouldn’t be as adept at frittering all of it away on useless projects that never accomplish anything as they seem to be, they’ve have graciously sent me this email. [...]
- The Squidoo Slap & SEO
As you know I very much like Squidoo.com pages. They’re excellent for link aggregating. They’re a great way to combine links to your articles on other websites and create a new “unique” page without lots of extra work and have another site in cyberspace point back to you. But as I warned earlier, the spammers [...]
- Finding Legitimate Emails In Your Gmail Spam Folder
I can never tell when Gmail is going to start taking my legitmate email and consider it “spam” … there seems to be little rhyme or reason. Sometimes Gmail disposes of some pretty important email in it’s quest to protect from Spam. Here’s a quick technique to help you identify real mail you might trash. [...]
- Spam Down?
When they sentenced that spammer to jail the other week, we were told Spam was going to be decreasing “noticably”. I wonder who’s going to notice it and when?
- Feds Use Identity Theft Laws To Jail Spammer
You know how people steal your email address and then send out spam under your email address as the bogus “reply to” address? They caught one of the world’s Top 10 Spammers because doing this, the feds decided, was “identity theft”. You can read about it on MSNBC They claim that putting this guy away [...]
- Spam & Scam of the Day – United Nations Email
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 [...]
- The Spam Comments Are At Least Trying To Look Human
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!












