Ready for yet another variation of the Nigerian money-transfer fraud (aka “419″ or advance fee) scam? This one’s giving out government-approved ATM cards.
Today’s spammers, viruses, emailbots, and spoofers can forge enough information within an email to obfuscate its origin from the average casual recipient.
However, the rest of the header information in emails can be used successfully to track their source if you know where to look. While Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the main protocol used when [...]
There’s another one of those pointless yet hysterical emails going around with completely ludicrous claims:
In April 1997, there was a “gas out” conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.
On May 15th 2007, all internet users are to not go to a gas station in protest of [...]
I’ve been getting the usual number of spam comments on my blogs lately, but the latest trend is odd, to say the least. Most comment spammers have been advertising either their own URLs (the oldest trick in the spamming book) or the URLs of other blogs that don’t clean up spam comments (a technique that [...]
Yesterday, a comment was posted on RR…, supposedly from John Torrey, CEO of Shareyourexperiences.com, in response to myriad comments left by other visitors that the Share Your Experiences organization is a scam in the same manner as the seemingly defunct Word of Mouth Connection.
Unfortunately, I believe that John’s reply is just another set of lies [...]
This is a warning to all Citibank credit card customers:
I received an email today that read as follows:
Dear Citibank Member,
This email was sent by the Citibank server to verify your E-mail address. You must complete this process by clicking on the link below and entering in the small window your Citibank ATM/Debit Card number and [...]
First of all, I take spam very seriously. Since I get about 40-50 spam emails per day, I’ve established a few procedures I use on a daily basis that help reduce the amount I am personally exposed to:
Reduce the spam:
Trust no one. If I’m on a website that asks for my email address in order [...]
In the final two weeks of 2003 I received 6,910 emails, 18 of which were legitimate emails from people or businesses that I would have expected.
The remaining 6,892 emails were all spam. That’s 492 per day, one spam email received every two minutes and fifty-six seconds.
I still take unsolicited emails very seriously and follow the [...]
I keep getting these stupid scam/spam emails that say:
Someone has just begun to research your background via our website. This email has been automatically sent to you so as to make you aware that your background is being looked into. The popularity of our website is currently growing at a very rapid rate. If another [...]
And it still keeps coming, this one a well-known scam with a personalized twist, sent from a free email account in what was once Czechoslovakia:
I am contacting you for the claim of your late uncle fund that was deposited with the Union Togolaise Bank. I am soliciting for your confidence in this matter, this is [...]
