Posts Tagged “spam”
I have a feeling the renewal form that Imagine Publishing in the UK uses had this sneaky web form last year too. Read the opt out clauses, carefully. None of the checkboxes were checked by default and as you can see they’re below the “Place Your Order” button. Sneaky.
Well, the link spammers never really went away did they? Has anyone noticed a huge increase in the number of “link exchange” emails or is it that I’ve been added to a particularly busy spammer’s list? I just noticed that a few recent ones contained the text “emailsnomore(dot)com” so I’m going to add a gmail [...]
I honestly thought that spammers had gotten smarter about making sure their emails were taken seriously. Even the most geeky and anti-marketing of developers will realise that big red and bold text, center justified, looks like something out of the last century. I hope for the sake of their business that they put more effort [...]
I received a friend request from an oddly named character on Xbox Live the other day. Looked something like wwwwfrapzcouk with some odd characters thrown in here and there. They then spammed me. Grrr. Rather embarrassingly for them, their website isn’t even set up correctly: Friend removed, and complaint lodged. I don’t like unsolicited commercial [...]
Well, this is a surprise. One of my .ie email addresses got a very targeted phishing email. It was so specific that it was actually written in Irish! It wasn’t directed at me, but at a list owner address at linux.ie. I wonder if the spammers know how many Irish people could actually read their [...]
This is weird, a huge number of POST requests started to hit the Shite Drivers website a few days ago. The requests came from lots of IP addresses and all requests went to the non existent /bc/123kah.php The payload was an array that looked like this: Array ( [showed] => [clicked] => [version] => 2.6.2.4 [...]
Some idiot at 213.155.4.184 hit all my websites over the last few days trying to login to my blogs. He fired off hundreds of automated requests probing and searching and testing my admin login. Each request had a different password. I use difficult to guess passwords but seeing the attempts was disconcerting. I went searching [...]
Win a trip to Disneyland
Donncha O Caoimh | July 24, 2009 | 28 comments
I’ve got good news, and I’ve got great news! The good news is for spammers. The great news is for you. The good news is that in 3 simple steps you too could win a trip to Disneyland: Visit one of those sites that lists this blog as a dofollow blog (BTW – it doesn’t [...]
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