November 21, 2007 – 12:09 am
This is a very popular format for the Bank of America spam email. The spammers are trying to lure you into clicking on a link to take to Bank of America’s online banking. The link you are actually clicking on which as shown in the picture of the email below is not exactly a “Click [...]
November 20, 2007 – 11:54 pm
Another one of the Pay Pal fraud emails floating around. The PayPal fraud email has a subject line of “Message from support, please confirm your information!”
The spammer doesn’t even try to obfuscate their email address with the reply email going to a @gmail.com address. Following is the content of that Pay Pal Fraud email which [...]
August 14, 2007 – 8:49 am
The UK National Lottery Scam or the UK Lottery Scam is gaining popularity among fraudsters and scammers these days. Look at the typical content of such a fraud email and do not respond to such emails
This is a new form of Spam Email I am seeing. In this email, apparantly a seconday email address has been added to my Paypal account. This email could definitely jump out for most people as most of us have a secondary email address which we enter when we sign up in case we forget [...]
However, lets go back into the ages, May 1, 1978 to be exact to learn about the first spam email ever. On this day, 29 years ago, Gary Thuerek, a marketer for Digital Equipment Corporation sent out the first spam email to more than 400 people with mail they did not correspond to. And yes, the email was send in all CAPITAL LETTERS.
Spam comes in a variety of forms, including fraudulent messages. This mass-messaging is called ’spoofing’ or ‘password phishing.’
Such fraudulent practices involve messages that appear to be from a legitimate source, or the creation of an official-looking webpage that asks you to provide your username and password or other personal information. Such messages or pages could [...]
Sweet… I just got my first comment spam in Russian.
Apparantly, they are promoting a site selling MP3 songs. Here is the translation of the Russian in the above comment spam to English. Google Translate did a pretty good job…
The latest site with MP3 songs. Here you will be able to download different mp3 free. Our [...]
This email definitely takes the Outstanding spam email award in my opinion so far… so far.
The reason I saw i saw its outstanding is because of the effort that went into creating this spam email. I have checked a couple of Lotteries and the Ref File number, the batch number etc are all pretty well [...]
One of the most popular articles on my blog continues to be the “I won the Microsoft Lottery Award” article. Another popular spam email doing the rounds these days in the Coca Cola Company Promotion Prize Award.
This spam email comes from a certain Mrs. Kate Hudson of the Coca Cola Company. This spam email is [...]
As I blogged earlier, Akismet has passed a huge milestone today. It has crossed 1 Billion Comment Spam blocked a few hours ago.
Besides me, a lot of people have been guessing on when this milestone would be reached and as guessed, it was reached over the weekend. As outlined in the picture below, two stats [...]