Archive for the 'spam' Category

Mar 15 2008

(not so) cute

Published by Andrew under scams, spam

I just received a message via MSN from “Colby” containing only the words “PARTY PARTY PARTY” and a URL.
They immediately closed the conversation window and when I tried to ask who the hell they were, was told that that user had signed off.
Out of curiosity, I visited the URL (since it didn’t contain any session / cgi ID stuff to uniquely identify the visitor)
The first thing it asks for is my MSN login and password.
No, not a prayer you’re getting me to put that in on your form.
Under that it gives the standard “by logging into this site you agree to the terms and conditions”. Pretty standard stuff, only it’s not in fine print and they print the terms and conditions themselves immediately below that, also not in fine print.
And the terms?
“By filling out this form, you authorize TST Management, Inc to spread the word
about this 100% real and upcomming Messenger Community Site.
You will receive your share of the credit in helping us spread the word. This is a harmless
Community site which is offering users a platform to meet each other for free.”

Yeah. I’ll sign up for your bullshit spamming service. Uh-huh.

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Jul 25 2007

WTF???

Published by Andrew under Word Press, blogging, geeking, spam

Somehow, someone managed to alter my post about finding an Indian cooking vlog on Youtube into a spam.
Looks like I’m going to have to track down an exploit in WordPress. I suspect one of my plugins. For the time being I’ve disabled one the one my gut tells me caused this.

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May 23 2006

I realize this will just be a repeat of a billion other posts out there, but…

Published by Andrew under spam

What the hell are some of these spammers thinking???

What on Earth gives them the idea I would purchase a home loan from someone who can’t even spell “mortgage”?

And pharmaceuticals? If you can’t even spell your product, let alone the many, easier to spell synonyms for it, why would I buy it from you?

“Hey, ${my first and last name}
Madical Ree-fill for ${my first and last name} is ready.

Please re-confirm City .

${spammer-URL}

The Buyer as per our records: ${my first and last name}

your info if wrong order please help us to correct it
Just visit our site above to make sure.”

Madical?
Ree-fill?

The only thing they spelled right is my name.

Yeah, I know, they don’t really want to sell me medicine. They want to scam me. And all the mis-spellings are to get past my (or my ISP’s) spam filters. But let’s think about this: If I go to the trouble to set up spam filtering, what makes them think that just because they got past my spam filter (I’ll have to investigate how that happened) I’ll suddenly overlook the fact that it’s exactly the kind of thing I don’t want AND their glaringly bad English?

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