Tag: Spam
EZ Facebook Hack
My friend James called me this afternoon and asked if “the iPad thing” was for real. I had no idea what he was talking about. He quickly informed me of my latest Facebook status update, and when I got home I saw it with my own two eyes: Finally got my iPad from that site! […]
Read More → EZ Facebook HackAn Idea for Twitter
I just posted the following suggestion on Get Satisfaction: When getting a notification that someone’s following me, it would be nice to see how many people have blocked them. The e-mail notification currently includes how many followers they have, how many tweets they’ve posted, and how many people are following them. However, I’m betting a […]
Read More → An Idea for TwitterLegacy
Every year I see further evidence that Dr. King’s legacy is not being honored so much as perverted. I got this spam e-mail last week advertising an event in downtown New Orleans: You really need to view the full-size original to soak in every little detail. That the ad refers to “the King” and uses […]
Read More → LegacyFrustrated with Bebo
I’ve been researching social network sites for a presentation I’m making at the end of the month. There’s quite a few of them out there. As part of my research I’ve been signing up for all the major ones and exploring them a bit. I already had accounts on Facebook, MySpace, Plaxo, Friendster, Orkut and […]
Read More → Frustrated with BeboStrange New Spam
I’m not sure what the game is, exactly, but I noticed this blog links to an old post of mine; it looks human at first but a quick scan thru the site confirms it’s being compiled by robots.
Read More → Strange New SpamThe Spammers Are Winning
The spammers are finally breaking me down. I’ve had the same e-mail address for over ten years, maybe as long as twelve years. I have learned not to publish the address on the web, but it’s easy to figure out: it’s the letter “b” and that funny “at” symbol, followed by rox, of course, and […]
Read More → The Spammers Are WinningDisconnected, Part III: Attack of the Spambots
After a week of delays and two whole days wasted on tech support calls, I was finally online. I was ready to write a damning invective criticizing Apple and an encomium praising the Computer Shoppe. I pointed my browser to my blog, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a notice: Your account […]
Read More → Disconnected, Part III: Attack of the SpambotsRolex Spam
Just in the last few days I’ve been getting a bunch of Rolex spam. It’s the electronic equivalent of a guy in the alley who says, “Psst, wanna buy a Rolex, cheap?” Apparently I’m not the only one. Seems to have started on October 17th, and it’s hitting worldwide. I wonder if, in the future, […]
Read More → Rolex Spam100,000 Spam E-mails
I’ve been letting the Mac OS X Mail client decide what’s junk for the last seventeen months. As of this morning, it has identified 100,031 e-mail messages as junk and filed them away, sight unseen, in a designated junk folder. That’s 44,288 messages to my “private” rox.com e-mail address; the rest have accumulated through a […]
Read More → 100,000 Spam E-mails