Tagged: E-mail spam

Anyone got a spam email that said they wanted to buy your domain?

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Onthuld! Waar spam wordt geboren (Photo credit: Erwin Boogert)

Has anyone got a spam email that said they wanted to buy your domain? I received that today as a generic email sent to my primary email account. I deleted it of course, because it is silly that someone would want to buy my domain. I don’t have enough traffic to make it worthwhile for a commercial interest. Spammers are getting more creative in trying to verify addresses aren’t they?

Also is anyone else getting spam emails from Poland and other countries? Is it just me, or  has spam been less Nigerian money scams and more attempts to exploits public information?

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Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; account lock-out attack works

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Image by youngrobv (Rob&Ale) via Flickr

Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; account lock-out attack works. I guess when you are the 800 lb gorilla you get to decide the rules don’t you? I wonder how long until the Anti-Facebook backlash?

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Technology facts (via True Facts)

Some fun technology facts. Some surprising stats here.

160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam. Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2. 9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam. Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit). A twillionaire is a twitterer with a million or more followers. There are some 1 billion computers in use. There a … Read More

via True Facts

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