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More Spam Comment Fun
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / March 30, 2011Not too long ago I shared what I believed was one of the better spam comments I've found on my website. Not for what it was advertising... but for what it was, or was not doing or saying. I really don...
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SMS Casino Spam? Really?
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / February 24, 2011Late last year I got a very strange text message from some random number I didn't recognize. It was spam for a casino in Florida. The message read like this... It's a Poker Thing! Mega Bad Beat is up...
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Best Spam Comment So Far
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / February 18, 2011Occasionally I'll dip into my spam comments both to make sure there aren't any false positives and also because I like to be entertained. I didn't happen to notice when this particular comment was lef...
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Very Strange Marketing Idea
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / February 2, 2011I'm still torn in wondering if this is just some strange spam or not... but I don't think so. I got an email from someone claiming to be "Ann Place" from The Daily. You know, that fancy new iPad ne...
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New Twist on Nigerian Email Scams?
By ack154 / in Nerdy Things / May 21, 2010Got this in my spam box: ACCEPT MY APOLOGIES AND HELP ME. My Dear One, I am LINDA LEVIS, 22 years old and I have lost my parents. Please help me to invest the money my late father left for me a...
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Where Has the Common Sense Gone?
By ack154 / in Nerdy Things, Random Thoughts / April 6, 2010Being in IT, you would see a lot of stupid things throughout your career... or even every day. Today is no exception. There seems to be a new trojan-laced spam email circulating lately (just starti...
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New Picasa Spam?
By ack154 / in Nerdy Things, Random Thoughts / December 23, 2009A while back I got a weird email that appeared to be from Google's Picasa service. It honestly looked like spam. The account name was some random website and I didn't even bother to read the rest. I a...
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Twitter, You Tricky Little Whore
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / August 31, 2009Spammers never die. They adapt. When they can no longer spam blog comments for their drugs and discounts and they can no longer spam the Myspaces with their crap... they have to go somewhere, right? ...
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