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 [...]
Contracts with call centres important
August 10, 2009 By 1 Comment
The the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) in imposing a $22,000 penalty to the Neighbourhood Energy Pty Ltd for breach of the Do Not Call Register Act also issued a formal warning to the energy company to place strong contractual provisions with its telemarketers. The warning followed the ACMA findings that the energy company [...]
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 [...]
Very sociable comment spams
February 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Stay away from social network sites, my friend
August 11, 2008 By 3 Comments
Just recently, a friend of mine was a victim of the viral marketing practice of a social network site (SNS). For the purpose of this article, let’s call the SNS, My FriendlySite. MyFriendlySite sent out invitations to my friend’s contacts to join MyFriendlySite. To those who know her, the invites totally look not measuring to [...]
“Hello world!” comment spams
You login to your newly installed WordPress site, and what do you know? You are greeted with a number of comments congratulating you for a job well done. One such comment is: “Rather interesting. Has few times re-read for this purpose to remember. Thanks for interesting article. Waiting for trackback” This somehow warms the heart, [...]