Posts Tagged ‘spam’

February 24th, 2010

Phishing in Irish

5 Comments, Ireland, by Donncha.

Well, this is a surprise. One of my .ie email addresses got a very targeted phishing email. It was so…

February 23rd, 2010

Gooochi talks to /bc/123kah.php

4 Comments, Web, by Donncha.

This is weird, a huge number of POST requests started to hit the Shite Drivers website a few days ago….

July 24th, 2009

Win a trip to Disneyland

27 Comments, WordPress, by Donncha.

I’ve got good news, and I’ve got great news! The good news is for spammers. The great news is for…

July 20th, 2009

reCAPTCHA Fail

12 Comments, Web, by Donncha.

I had to refresh twice to get a string I could read and type. Captcha anti spam checks suck.

Some idiot at 213.155.4.184 hit all my websites over the last few days trying to login to my blogs. He…

Don’t search for your event topic and spam the blogs you find.
At least make the effort to look up the…

I received a nice polite email from a man asking for my help last week. He was a bit cryptic…

May 11th, 2009

John, my personal spammer!

14 Comments, blogging, by Donncha.

With apologies to anyone named John. Spammers are getting more clever at spreading their links. Now legitimate website owners are…

This morning, Diageo Ireland (the company behind Guiness) spammed me again, despite my repeated attempts to remove myself from their…

The very popular WP Hashcash plugin for WordPress has been modified to work on the WordPress MU signup page.
WP Hashcash…


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