Category Archives: spam

open season

Posted on Monday, 2006 March 13 by Anton

Lately the attempts to spam this blog come disproportionately as comments on posts in the spam category. Hm. Just for laughs, I’ll approve all comments on this one.

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argh

Posted on Sunday, 2006 February 19 by Anton

And now I’m getting spammed by Frappr: DOWN CLOTHING from Chino (CA) would like to be your friend and join your Friend Map. I only bloody joined Frappr because one of my groups wanted to get everyone on the map. … Continue reading →

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our schools win too!

Posted on Saturday, 2006 January 07 by Anton

Sometime in 2005 I received referral spam from: http://www.rebuildsanmateohighschool.org/casino-gambling.html http://www.rebuildsanmateohighschool.org/casino-games.html http://www.rebuildsanmateohighschool.org/online-casino-gambling.html There’s a certain charm in it, don’t you think?

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I tawt I taw a Caspian sturgeon

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 December 27 by Anton

A spammer asks, “Can you imagine a Silvester without Caviar?” Well, no, I guess not. What’s a Silvester?

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a buggy spammer?

Posted on Sunday, 2005 December 04 by Anton

In the past few days I’ve received dozens of robot comments whose only plausible purpose is to see what will get through the filters. Most of them contained exactly three links to well-known entities, most of them in entertainment or … Continue reading →

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mall.montreal.com, whoever you are

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 22 by Anton

Why go to the bother of generating referral spam for a page with no content?

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who had “Thursday morning” in the pool?

Posted on Thursday, 2005 September 01 by Anton

A spam this morning (to a list for which I’m gatekeeper) talked about the hurricane, but I couldn’t tell what the payload was. It had a link to a dead domain.

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