http://jackyan.vox.com/library/posts/tags/spammers/page/1/ NOW IN COLOUR en Vox Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:00:12 +1200 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss spammers http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/spam-and-scam-alerts-on-bebo.html?_c=feed-rss 80 nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/spam-and-scam-alerts-on-bebo.html?_c=feed-rss http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/spam-and-scam-alerts-on-bebo.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:00:12 +1200 I check my Bebo account once every four or five months. I see the spammers are now heading there: I had two messages with attractive female profile pictures asking for contact. The emails were different enough but they had the same concluding para... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/spam-and-scam-alerts-on-bebo.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252293c4604a00fa96917da00002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> spam social networking spammers scam bebo scammers http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/spam-shame-list-for-friday-afternoon-gmt.html?_c=feed-rss 80 nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/spam-shame-list-for-friday-afternoon-gmt.html?_c=feed-rss http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/spam-shame-list-for-friday-afternoon-gmt.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:03:26 +1200 Shame on the following companies today: Panda Security, for spamming the Medinge Group. While there is always a possibility that forged headers led to our address being subscribed, there was never any confirmation from us, plus I’ve since used al... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/spam-shame-list-for-friday-afternoon-gmt.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252293c4604a00fad6910a420004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> spam email viruses spammers junk mail uce junk email tech2.com removal requests unsubscribe requests panda security http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/bounces-can-be-more-annoying-than-regular-spam.html?_c=feed-rss 60 nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/bounces-can-be-more-annoying-than-regular-spam.html?_c=feed-rss http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/bounces-can-be-more-annoying-than-regular-spam.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 11 May 2008 00:11:27 +1200 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://jackyan.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2252293c4604a00e398f846690005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c2252293c4604a00e398f846690005-50si" alt="Email downloading" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I hate days that start like this. Last night, about 20-odd spammers decided to collude and put in one of our addresses—not one of our firm, but one which I get cced on—in the ‘From’ header in their email. Where do the bounces go? Right here. 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Thank you to those spammers in the United States (Comcast, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves—plenty came through you, so it’s ironical you block so ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/took-a-while-to-download.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252293c4604a00f48d122ce20001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> spam comcast email usa spammers isp uce blacklist http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/daddy-where-do-blog-posts-go.html?_c=feed-rss 60 nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/daddy-where-do-blog-posts-go.html?_c=feed-rss http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/daddy-where-do-blog-posts-go.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:10:16 +1300 As some bloggers know, our posts can get picked up by blog-spammers. These are folks that take a post, usually as an RSS feed, and repurpose it on their blogs, making out that it was theirs. Sometimes they will link it to the wrong author (just w... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/daddy-where-do-blog-posts-go.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252293c4604a00e398b007660002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> blog spam robots spammers http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/i-want-the-net-to-be-an-experimental-utopia.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/i-want-the-net-to-be-an-experimental-utopia.html?_c=feed-rss http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/i-want-the-net-to-be-an-experimental-utopia.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:57:11 +1300 [Cross-posted] What has dawned on me these days is that the ’net is no longer a place of escape. Not that long ago, businessmen like me could go online, easily find colleagues who were interested in making a difference on the planet. Go online no... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/i-want-the-net-to-be-an-experimental-utopia.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252293c4604a00d41428e69a3c7f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> internet future reality blogosphere education earth civilization civility humanity civilized virtual uncivilized spammers planet occident http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/blog-spammers-are-dorks.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/blog-spammers-are-dorks.html?_c=feed-rss http://jackyan.vox.com/library/post/blog-spammers-are-dorks.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:19:41 +1300 For the last few months, my Blogger account gets around eight to twelve blog spams a day. These are folks who use automated programs to feed in fake comments, containing their URLs, into blogs. 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