Category Archives: spam

Spam title of the day: To comb my tambourine peculiarity

Today’s spam catch included the titles panacea garnish ministerial candlelight apple dispassionate How evocative!

Google Mail does a good job of catching spam, but a mediocre job of flagging “phishing” fraud within the spam trap. One very simple clue: if it contains <a href=”http://scamhost.ru/paypal/”>http://www.paypal.com/</a> it’s not likely to be kosher.

The above is the title of a (suspected) spam caught today by Pobox’s filter. I’m almost tempted to find out what the content could be. In other news, I was passed on the highway by a sport Audi moving at … Continue reading →

I had a look at the Trash folder in which I archive notices of attempted comments on the blog (most of which are spam). Since I last cleaned it, 164 posts have received two or more, and #1301 has had … Continue reading →