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 [Kevin's Meandering Mind] Dear Bob ”¦ Our Spam Anti-Hero: As they offer Bob lost African millions, Russian brides and get-rich-quick scams he responds by generously offering some outlandish schemes of his own. The spammers may have breached his firewall, but they have met their match as Bob Servant rises heroically to the challenge, and sows confusion in his wake.

 [AAW Forums] How I validate user accounts: When you register for an account on here, you fill out the form, are asked to do image recognition, complete it correctly and an email gets sent to that email address. You get the email (if it doesn't get rejected as SPAM, and no we won't complete the form to tell you it isn't SPAM) and click on a link and it is put in a list for me to check.

[chilio.info] Spam Scams: How Not To Become A Victim: The spammers can ask you to distribute some advertising letters to a list of email addresses, for remuneration. Although they will tell you that the list contains only opt-in email addresses, it’s not true, and you will be sending spam directly from your computer.

[Chrystalline] Fighting Spam: Amber alerts without names or contact information are fake, companies do NOT give awards or donations based on the number of emails forwarded, financial institutions will not send important account closure/verification messages to you through email, virus warnings are sometimes treacherous in themselves, hitmen don’t email their targets to offer them a chance to buy their way out of being murdered, and random people with a horrible grasp of English grammar are not going to send you multi-million dollar windfalls just to help them transfer it into the US. Snopes.com is a pretty good first step, and if you still can’t tell, try contacting a friend who’s been around the web a few times.

[Blognotes.in] Spammers targeting social networking sites: “There’s an implicit trust in social networking. People don’t think they’re going to be attacked with spam,”

[Kaizenlog] Study Links Storm Botnet’s Growth To Illegal Drugs: growth of the Storm botnet to spammers that sell prescription drugs illegally over the Internet. The study shows that more than 80 percent of Storm-generated spam is advertising online pharmacy brands, and further .

[clickhereformorecustomers.com] How Secure Is Your Blog?: Most will do nothing once they break in, some will make some small changes like Leonid did, and some will plant viral code on your website or blog that will turn your website into a data collection server or an email forwarding server. This is how many email spammers relay their messages through hundreds of web servers so they can't be traced.

 [Local Democracy News] Democracy News May 27: Shot across bows of email relays. Yahoo is suing a group of unidentified companies and individuals loosely called the "Yahoo Lottery Spammers" for running email scams that sought victim's personal information and extorted money from purported winners.

 [Jamess Blog] How Spammers Obtain Your Email Address And Why They Send Spam: It’s not easy to track a spammer located in USA sending spam using a mail server from Russia to mailboxes in Australia. Spammers are also known to use Trojans to hijack one’s computer and make that person send spam on behalf of the .

[SysAdmin1138 Expounds] Email Hygiene: Such a central repository is its own version of a spammer's dream mailing list, and also represents a treasure-trove of email From: lines likely to be trusted. It would only work when used in conjunction with something like SPF or SenderID to ensure that the person who is "joe.bob@mywork.biz" only sends mail from the mywork.biz mail-servers.

[Quantum Tea] Someone stole my blog post: I registered a user account on the spam blog on Monday and posted a comment on one of my stolen posts, telling them to take down my copyrighted material. They altered my comment, so I left another.

 [Sense of Adventure] Most incoherent email ever: I’ve changed the correspondent’s alleged name to [SuzyQ] in order, I suppose, to preserve the sensibilities of whatever halfwit Russian spammer ginned this up.

[simple] In Defence of Spam: Had their email addresses been grabbed from the list server, probably hacked by a malicious Russian teenager and sold for thousands? Their email addresses had in fact been collected by hand by another member of the list, whose friend was starting a company and was trying to drum up some publicity.

 [Jacks Blog] Are You Receiving Your Daily Free Mortgage Marketing Lessons?: Many of these are a result of my opt-ins to subscriptions, newsletters, and email courses. Some are just plain spam. I don’t use any email filters because they also inadvertently filter out the good emails I want to read. The spammers ...

 [larry borsato] Spam. Still the scourge of the net.: Someone, seemingly from Russia, is spamming people like crazy and forging my email address as the From: address. How do I know this?

 [Technology News Aggregator] Technology news on May 27: Yahoo is suing a group of unidentified companies and individuals loosely called the “Yahoo Lottery Spammers” for running e-mail scams that sought victim's personal information and extorted money from purported winners.

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