I just got an email that looks, for all the world, like an attempt to make a hotel reservation. The English is fairly atrocious, and it appears to be bcc:'ed to me, but damned if I can figure out what the scam is here -- there are no links, no requests for me to send anything except a confirmation and the cost to put up 10 people in mid-May.

Mind ( Read more... )

Today's study in Weird Spam starts off with,It is with pleasure that we invite you to take part in the 2017 world conference on Global Security, Save The Life And Terrorism In The World. This conference Scheduled to take place from [February 15th to 19th, United States and Senegal from February 22nd to 26th 2017].
It's obvious phishing spam, and was ( Read more... )

Continuing my policy of calling out Major Companies That Ought to Know Better: I just got half-a-dozen copies of a spam in my accidental waks.org honeypot. They're all from "Quest", which is apparently the company that used to be Dell Software, now purchased and renamed ( Read more... )

On the downside, I'm a bit cranky that somebody has clearly come up with a new spam service this week: the amount getting into my Gmail Spam box (as opposed to being deleted outright) has abruptly risen tenfold ( Read more... )

Ah -- there's the followup.

In my rant the other day about Twitter's incompetence, I mentioned that I was continuing to get emails *after* I had rejected an email address. This just happened three times in a row, all identical, so I now see a bit more of what's going on ( Read more... )

Okay, the only way to get a rise out of anybody these days seems to be embarrassing companies on social media. Let's see if Twitter is paying any attention ( Read more... )

Got this spam on the SCA Questions list the other day. I haven't the slightest clue what they are thinking, nor even what language a few of these words are supposed to be from, but man -- I can *so* see confusing a poetry slam with a dramatic reading. (The combination of punctuation and repeated words just *makes* it as performance art, not to ( Read more... )

[Happy (rare) birthday to napoleons_mommy!]

Okay, I can't really fault the SCA site's filters in this particular case. This morning's email to the Questions List had the Subject line "Change from dagger to BROADSWORD!" Of course, it's penis-enlargement spam...

So in my more paranoid moments, I contemplate the possibility of the government mounting a self-coup, and trying to turn the country into a truly authoritarian state. (I don't think the current Administration will, but that's more because I don't think they're competent enough than that they wouldn't like to do so.) In which case, the question ( Read more... )

The bad news: some spammer is sending out a substantial quantity of spam (a couple hundred a day) that purports to be from our domain, so we're getting all those bounces ( Read more... )