CogBlogged Tagged ‘spam’

cc licensed flickr photo shared by chotda That is some tasty looking spam sushi, but not as good as this gem that was sparkling like a cubic zirconia in my inbox. The beauty was the letter was attached as a PDF and allegedly referred to a manufactured relative with my last name: Dear Levine, I will like to seek your help in a business proposal , which although is sensitive by nature and not what I should discuss with someone I don’t know and have not met using a medium such as this but I do not have a choice. Well desperate times call for desperate spammers. After the warm personal greeting, how could I not read on? I am Mr. Xxxxxx Xxxxx, personal account manager of late Dr. Norman Levine, who died of a cardiac arrest a few years ago leaving behind a large sum of money with a [...]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by AlyssssylA I get about one of these a day. I guess there is a giant “SUCKER” sign pasted on the back of me on the internet. Do you think it is that hard to spot a machine generated body of text? C’mon, I did Mad Libs in the 1970s. Dear [sucker's name], I really appreciate your collection of information for teachers on the [sucker's blog name] website, [sucker's blog url]. I have also found your post “[last blog post]” very interesting. Yes, [sucker's blog name] is one of those sites I keep coming back to. I’ll keep this short as I know you probably get a ton of email. I have developed a tool [insert name here] that I think your readers will find interesting. It is a useful thing to post on your page so you and your readers can [verb made into [...]

THIS MESSAGE IS FROM OUR TECHNICAL SUPPORT TEAM This message is sent automatically by the computer. If you are receiving this message it means that your email address has been queued for deactivation; this was as a result of a continuous error script (code:505)received from this email address. To resolve this problem you must reset your email address. In order to reset this email address, you must reply to this e-mail by providing us the following Information for confirmation. Current Email User Name : { } Current Email Password : { } Re-confirm Password: { } Note: Providing a wrong information or ignoring this message will resolve to the deactivation of This Email Address The user of This Email Address is Laughing His Ass off– really, if you are going to phish me, damnit, use some interesting bait that does not insult my intelligence! Because I am certainly going to [...]

I mean c’mon, if you are going to the effort to run bots to spam and phish me, at least try to be convincing! The CogDog judge gives this a -1 for effort and a 0 for originality. How many hours were sent crafting: To: undisclosed recipients; Subject: our Email ID has been awarded 1,000,000.00 GBP in the TOBACCO PROMO send your Names… Country… Age… The most disturbing thing is that even this indecipherable, obviously a phony email will still probably fool some percentage of the receivers of the message. That is really sad,

cc licensed flickr photo shared by daveograve@ I am not a happy pup. The volume of blog comment spam coming into my quiet little dog house is has reached DEFCON 4 on the scale of annoyance. So I am taking action against one company, Ubiquity Server Solutions which coddles spammers (see the updates and comments below- I cannot stand by this initial accusation; and they, in fact, have taken action). I have twice reported offending IP addresses they host that are sending spam to abuse@biquityservers.com, sending pertinent information: And below, I invite you to join me and ban them from your sites. I am getting large volumes of blog comment spam originating from servers on your network. Please let me know when you have canceled these persons accounts. ———- Forwarded message ———- From: WordPress <wordpress@cogdogblog.com> Date: Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:30 PM Subject: [CogDogBlog] Please moderate: "More Than Notes [...]

Dear CogDogBlog Spammers, Thank you for your loyalty over the last 7 years, your patronage was never wavered, and your activity has continued to grow over the years. Your work is a tribute to perseverance in your discipline, and I am sure your clients, the various pill retailers, online gambling parlors, body enhancement providers all have prospered greatly because of your sheer genius. But I have been stingy in keeping your daily, hourly, often Russian, flow of wisdom to myself. Until now, I have vigorously kept a chain link fence around this blog with various anti-spam plugins, but I wanted to let you know that the guard dog has been chained and you shall sometimes be let in the yard… … well, that is, after I edit your stupid-ass comment’s URL and email address. I thus leave your poetic comments to be available to all of the readers here who [...]

I regret I don’t know Russian since I cannot read about 60% of my blog comments, but among the rest, I get so many nice things that people say! It really warms my heart that people can be so kind, they even say things that are not relevant to my blog posts. Your website came up in my research and I’m taken by what you have composed on this topic. I am presently extending my research and thus cannot contribute further, yet, I have bookmarked your web site and will be returning to keep up with any incoming updates. Just love it and thanks for admitting my remark. Wow, that is so generic for you to say that sentence you wrote as a sentence. But I am so saddened your research is so daunting that you cannot return. Maybe I will be returning to the lovey site you linked with [...]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Carplips I have had a hair tearing hacked WordPress blog experience here over the last 2 days. I don’t know why, but it really knocked my knees out, and I am reeling to figure out why this has gotten to me on an emotional level. That even sounds silly seeing those words. But I am not rolling over. Yet. It all surface, like many things, in the act of doing something else. I left a comment Sunday on someone’s blog about something rather inconsequential, and got an email later asking me if I knew my blog was riddles with spam links. Sure enough, I looked at the source code, and at the bottom, written with CSS to hide the display (but not hide from google) was a long list of every variation of PPC (pill/porn/casino) link one could imagine, maybe 120 of them. It’s [...]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by natebeaty I had a friend was a big dot com player back in the bubble He could throw that IPO by you Make you look like a fool boy Saw him the other night at this coffee bar I was walking in, he was walking out We went back inside sat down had a few lattes but all he kept talking about was Glory days well they’ll pass you by Glory days in the flash of Scoble’s eye Glory days, glory days It was not that long ago there was this new digital technology that came out that felt like it was going to revolutionize the way we connect and communicate. It was first in the hands of the geeks that invented it, and a few of their friends, and as it spread, slowly at first, then with downhill speed acceleration, it seemed like [...]

cc licensed flickr photo by deadrobot Good gravy, if you are going to send me spam-mail, at least make it a worthy effort? This one “Your Tax Refund” from supposedly the “Canada Revenue Agency” makes those Kenyan inheritances and dutch lottos seem legit. I really expected more from Canadian Spam, and I am way disappointed in this attempt. After the last anual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $475.20 From 2009, we process refunds through your VISA / Mastercard Please fill the form below and e-mail it to canadarevenueagency@minister.com or simply reply it from this curent e-mail ! First Name: Last Name: Address: City: Province: Postal Code: Home Phone Number: Mother’s Maiden Name: Date of Birth: Social Insurance Number: Credit/Debit Card Number: Expiration date [ MM/YYYY ] : Card Verification Code: Card Signature/ATM PIN: Bank Name: We are [...]