Seriously, people that do not know how to correctly send emails to a list of people, should get banned from the Internet! It just happened, that my university has sent out a reminder for a student survey. Okay, I am fine with the fact, that they sent it to my private address. But why on […]
Continue ReadingFacebook Scam: Additional E-Mail Addresses
Facebook is huge with soon 500 million users worldwide. And bad people try to abuse that large user base with different techniques and methods. One that I came across today is a scam email which wants to you view some photos. If you click the link, Facebook asks you for your password and to verify […]
Continue ReadingSpam of the Day: WifiNt Domain Spam
Today in Spam: Hannah from Wifint.cn who write to tell me that Robert Jiang wants to register .cn/.com.cn/.hk/.asia and other domain names which are similar to a .com I own. Dear Sir/Madam We are a internet service (software development, website design and development, wifi network works to promote the protection of brands, search engine optimization, […]
Continue ReadingFashionFriends’ Verzweiflungstat?
Jetzt deinen 20-Franken FashionFriends Gutschein sichern! Wie viele andere erhielt ich heute eine E-Mail von FashionFriends, der ERSTE SCHWEIZER SHOPPING-COMMUNITY FÜR MARKENBEKLEIDUNG. Zuerst dachte ich, es sei wieder einer dieser vielen “Jetzt billig zu haben” Angebote, die es öfters gibt. Nein, diese E-Mail ging an eine andere Adresse. Diese konnte FashionFriends aus meinem anderen […]
Continue ReadingEmbed a Counter in Your Spam Messages
I’ve got this email in my inbox – my junk folder to be more precise – today. Notice the counter on the bottom? 987994 people have read this email after 2 and a half hours of sending. Including me. The counter is hosted at a site called “Right Stats” (www.rightstats.com). It looks like a “real […]
Continue ReadingCorsin’s Naked Video
I just got the most ridiculous email spam ever: Subject: corsin’s naked video Body: Take a look at yourself 🙂 The text is linked to hxtp://www.google.com/pagead/iclk?sa=3Dl&ai=3DYLlJXS&num=3D06193&= adurl=3Dhttp://mood03.com/video.exe (do not download!) As you can see, the spammers once again are abusing Google and Google AdSense to distribute their links. Hopefully Google will one day close this […]
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