Category Archives: spam

I don’t know what to think. Just got an African money-laundering letter that begins: Dear Sir, You may have seen this business before and ignored it. I know I did – many times! However,please take a few moments to read … Continue reading →

I see that Pobox’s spam filter has learned to spot at least some Nigerian scam letters. That must have been tricky, as they vary more and look a lot more like normal mail than most junkmail does.

Oddest junkmail of the month: The Illuminati Order would like to invite you to visit with us at: http://www.illuminatiorder.org This invitation is at the request of someone who cares about you but she wishes to remain ananymous. Kind regards, Grandmaster … Continue reading →

It would appear that a significant number of netizens have taken to rejecting mail from 211.x.x.x, and that the Chinese spammers know it: I got several spams today that advertised a website in China (at least china-motion.com appeared in traceroute) … Continue reading →

It’s ages since I got a spam of the form “For $39.99 we’ll submit your site to 273 top search engines . . . .” Remember them? I always wondered who the heck would buy that service.

It had to happen: I just got a “Nigerian scam” letter from someone representing himself as “the secetary of Africa White farmers co-operation (AWFC) OF Zimbabwe.”

Got a spam today which ends thus: </HTML> &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&Of course, the systematic use of complex symbols suffices to account for the preliminary qualification limit. For any transformation which is sufficiently diversified in application to be of any interest, any associated … Continue reading →