dan tynan on Oct 23 2008 | Filed under: PC World, Spamarama
This post originally appeared on PCworld.com.
As more and more spammers are arrested, prosecuted, and sued under state and federal antispam statutes, there’s one thing you can count on: Someone somewhere will invariably call the targeted spammer a “spam king.”
It seems the bulk e-mail industry has more kings than a pinochle deck. But who is really [...]
dan tynan on Sep 02 2008 | Filed under: Spamarama
OK, like every human with an email account I get countless amounts of spam. Fortunately most of it is caught by the three four five spam filters that clean my inbox (my ISP has one, my web host, my email program’s, etc.). But occasonally one or two slip through. This morning’s beauty? An email titled
“Bill [...]
dan tynan on Aug 27 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Spamarama
You’d think that by now major political parties, national newspapers, and food franchises would have a handle on email. Of course, you’d be wrong. Cringely details how the Democratic Party, the Wall Street Journal, and Pizza Hut are pulling stupid email tricks out of their, umm, hats.
dan tynan on Aug 24 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Da Web, Web 2.0
So I got the usual "some total stranger is now following you on Twitter" message yesterday. When I clicked the link inside the email I got the following screen, which I’d never seen before:
"Shelly" says she is from Canada and "enjoys showing people how to market online." She’s following 1922 people but only 30 [...]
dan tynan on Jun 15 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Video, youtube
Over the last 24 hours this blog has been hit with hundreds of comment spams, all trying to drive people to the same site. (Thank god for Akismet, which trapped all but one of them.) I had over 100 in less than a day.
The spam tries to drive you to a porn version of [...]
