If you look at the image on this post, you will notice the following: 1. The subject line and the body of the message contain words, mostly English words, which have been split like: lifes tyle for lifestyle refri geran t for refrigerant chast en for chasten … and other cut up words. 2. It [...]
Warning on unauthorised digital TV offers
October 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Australians switching to digital television should beware door-to-door salespeople offering conversion equipment and falsely claiming to represent the Government, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, said today. “I was outraged to hear reports about people claiming to represent the Government and offering digital television goods door-to-door. These people have [...]
Mixed trends in spamming for August
September 11, 2009 By 1 Comment
Symantec reported in its August 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report that the spam activity levels of Cutwail, one of the largest botnets globally, reduced by 90 percent following a shutdown of an ISP in Latvia but Donbot, another large botnet, continued to use shortened URLs in its spam runs, with ten billion emails being distributed in [...]
Spammers translate spams to local language
August 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In its Intelligence report last month, MessageLabs highlighted how spammers are using automated translation tools and templates to increase multiple language spam runs. “With spam levels globally remaining at a two-year high of approximately 90 percent, some countries have been experiencing levels in excess of 95 percent, such as Germany, France and The Netherlands,” reported [...]
Spamming in poetry? Interesting.
July 17, 2009 By 1 Comment
Just for fun, I searched for something which I thought I would never find. Something about spamming and poetry. You know what I found? A poem about spamming. Here’s part of that poem: To you who deluge my Inbox all day With unsolicited ads and chatter In digital hell, I reserve you a place: The [...]
Friends’ emails getting trashed to spam folder
June 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A friend recently asked why some of his associates’ emails are being trashed to his Spam / Junk folder. Of course he knew his associates as people who would not engage in such illegal activities like sending spams. We did a quick check and noted that Yahoo had been having problems with its anti-spamming filter [...]
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