This spam email was just too funny to me not to do. Gosh! I feel so sorry for anyone that is so computer illiterate that they could fall for something like this.
Good Day,
I have 100% legal lucrative business
proposal which will be of mutual benefit to
us,If you are Interested, kindly mail me at
(curtisanthony212@ymail.com) for more
details.
Thanks and awaiting your response.
Curtis Anthony
Business Proposal
From: honyeeee1@singnet.com.sg
Subject: 100% legal proposal
Date: September 27, 2008 2:42:04 AM PDT
To: curtisay@wlla.com
Reply-To: curtisanthony343@jmail.co.za
MORE SCAM EMAIL MASHUPS
Here in one post, I will start collecting curious little spam messages and emails I get. These aren’t interesting enough to get their own posts, but I still like to be found in searches for their emails, urls etc.
Hi sweetie!I’d like to avoid any confusion, I’m writing this on behalf of my mother. She was searching for guys online and came upon your irresistible profile (her words). She’s single and HOT! She wants to experience new things, meet a great guy for dating and more! She’s very alluring, men turn around when she walks? she has very nice curves. She likes going to the movies, drinking coffee and enjoys smart conversation. She plays a few musical instruments but prefers the cello. She’s humorous, romantic and easy-going. I’d like to add that she’s a very perceptive and spiritual person. I hope you’ll write back, you sure won’t regret it. FYI, this is MY account, so don..t reply directly to this message Instead, please use her email address, MarieBashor at gmail..
Well thank you very much
http://myspace.com/269092691
Via Email From tonybenson02@yahoo.com.hk
You can now email me at: sgttonybenson002@yahoo.com
- Dear Friend, I know you would be surprised to read from someone relatively unknown to you before now. My name is Tony Benson, a master sgt. of The U.S. Marine, deployed to Iraq in the beginning of the war in 2003.I would like to share some highly personal classified information about my personal experience and role which I played in the pursuit of my career serving under the U.S ARMY which was at the fore-front of the war in Iraq. Though, I would like to hold back certai n information for security reasons for now until you have found time to visit the BBC website stated below to enable you have insight regarding what I intend to share with you, believing that it would be of your desired interest in one way or the other.Here is a BBC news listing that confirms what I share with you.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm Also, could you get back to me having visited the above website to enable us discuss in a more vivid manner to the best of your understanding. I must say that I’m very uncomfortable sending this message to you without knowing truly if you would misconstrue the importance and decide to go public.In this regards,I will not hold backto say that the essence of this letter is strictly for mutual benefit of you and I and nothing more.I will be more vivid and coherent in my next email in this regards. Meanwhile,could you send me a mail confirming you have visited the site and understood my intentions?Standing by for you r response. warm regards, master sgt.Tony Benson secured email:tonybenson02@yahoo.com.hk
From MySpace
is it u there?:
http://ofthehub. com/go/ms. php?ch=cb8c411a8037611c46a0b5fba697c260
(ofthehub.com appears to be a virus thing)
I keep getting this email from “Solomon Guei solo.guei1@gmail.com in an email asking me to open an attachment:
PLEASE OPEN THE ATTACHMENT TO SEE DETAILS.
FROM SOLOMON
the attachment reads:
From: Solomon Kone Guei
I am Solomon Kone Guei from Coted Ivoire. I am 26 years old; I lost my father a couple of years ago. My father late General Robert Guei was a Ex-Military head of State of Ivory Coast until his untimely death,(You can visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2269238.stm for complete report on this incident).
He was assassinated on the 19th of September 2002 by an unknown group of heavily armed gunmen following the political uprising. To be brief and straight to the point, before his untimely death, he deposited with a finance security company a metal safe box containing
the sum of (Twenty Million United States Dollars Only) $20 million meant for the purchase of heavy artilleries, armored tank, ammunitions and security equipments.
The security company do not know the real contents of the metal safe box is money, because he convincingly told them at the time of deposit that it only contains African Artefact treasures and computer security consumables that does not need air and sun rays, that
will be ship to his foreign business associate in abroad.
I want you to do me a favor to claim the box as my late father foreign business associate overseas in your country, so that I will come over to your country for investment and resettlement, since the present administration is no more in cordial relationship with my families.
I will go into partnership investment with you in your country, such as Real Estate and Hotel ownership this is my reason for writing to you. Please if you are willing to assist me, indicate your interest in replying soonest, I will offer you 30% only for your kind and honest assistance. Do kindly send me your direct telephone and fax numbers for an easy communication-mail me:
solo.guei@gmail.com
Mr. Solomon Guei
Recently while troubleshooting an old WordPress 2.1.3 blog, I found that when trying publish a new post, the next page would fail to load and only get to a blank screen. Also, while looking around in the dashboard, I noticed that the default upload directory (for uploading images etc), was set to:
/../../../../../../../../../../../../../../tmp/
from CyberInsecure.com :
Wordress blogs are mass scanned and attacked, and a new directory in wp-content folder is created in vulnerable ones. The directory is usually called /1/ and its full of html files containing Javascript redirects in them (doorways). There was also an infected blog with phishing pages for Google logins. Google cache already shows thousands of results with such hacked WordPress blogs. They can be seen best by committing a search inurl:wp-content/1/ (do not visit those results, your PC might get infected). Google has already tagged some of these spam pages as harmful.
The blogs are most likely attacked by some kind of automated tool since the amounts of spam are too big to work manually on all those spam pages creation. It seems there are also spam comments in posts as well. Spam comments are pointing to internal infected blog pages in folder “1? to get them spidered and to get people to visit them.
This issue was reported to WordPress.org, and there is an unofficial fix for this issue. The fix is based around renaming the cookies used by WordPress by default. If the exploit is hacking the cookies by mass scanning blogs, and it looks for a specific cookie name, that would stop what is out there now but it would not fix the issue.
Recommendations: Upgrade to 2.3.3 along with immediately changing any administrator passwords. Currently older WordPress versions, especially Wordress 2.1.3, attacked using “admin-ajax.php” sql injection exploit to retrieve the administrator account’s password.
Change default cookie names in your blog.
Things like this are a reason to keep your WordPress, and all other software up to date!
Reading:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/154278
I just glanced at my DataPortability email digest and apparently they got some sexy girls hot sexy pictures and nude videos going on in there. WTF?
Uh…
Is that Portable Data?
We are constantly trying to come up with new ways to battle those entities whom have absolutely nothing to contribute.
In the coming age of more intelligent computing, within the cloud of service providers and throughout the Web Of Data or Semantic Web, will the penetration of irrelevant solicitors be the same?
Surely there will always be Spam, but will structured data and the services that utilize it help to make barriers, at least of relevance? Or at all?
Just some shit to think about.
from: nade05@uku.co.uk
reply to: johnram555@gmail.com
Hello
Please I’ll like to know if your ITEM is
still available. I want to buy it for my wife
as a Britday gift.Email me or call me as
soon as you can so that we can proceed
because I’ll be leaving town in few days
time
cole.
Phone: (915)-808-3485
They don’t say what the item is or ask any questions about it. The telephone number is a Texas Area Code and is disconnected. I suspect this is a spam-bot that responds to all craigslist ads of a certain parameter, and then collects the email addresses of the people that respond. Or something like that. I hate this.
A “Letter to Comcast,” but also, and more importantly, a letter to people who read my blog.
Source: TechCrunch
Plaxo has some really compelling address book synchronization offerings. Really, for me, Plaxo was sort of a mini dream come true as far as my personal data is concerned.
But I thought about it and I just don’t trust Comcast. They are limiting my access to competing media distribution channels, and they have a reputation for fighting against consumer interests, and perhaps even human interests, if you’re willing to step back and see the implications of the non-neutrality they are in favor of with regard to the Internet.
Comcast, you have an uphill PR battle in front of you. People like me will continue to think of your brand as representing pure evil until you start to prove us wrong. I don’t know how you’re going to do this, but making acquisitions that appear to consumers to be privacy concerns, given your already soiled trust with the public, isn’t the best thing to do right now. I’m all for socially curated media, and I’m glad if Comcast is working in that direction, but frankly, you’re in a position where you could really start to seem like the orwellian “Big Brother” Nightmare everyone is terrified of. Perhaps you should point all your guns at bringing IPTV into reality, or better yet, let’s see the real convergence between TV and Web that we all know is coming one way or another. Do that first. And why don’t you also try getting all the dark spots in the Net lit up! The South, you know? Let’s get those people online and you can sell them programming later. I know there’s not really a bandwidth problem, not when there’s 100 channels of “HD” programming streaming into all your cable customers homes 24/7. C’mon. Quit lying and cheating and stealing and start making some progress toward our common good. Or on the other hand, why don’t you announce the acquisition of an arms manufacturer. That’d help your company’s image.
I’ve deleted Plaxo’s software from my machine, and I closed my Plaxo account. Goodbye Plaxo. Really, an open-source version of the same type of thing would be better anyhow.
I can’t believe this is still going on. Perhaps it’s worthwhile to these jerks to do this, as they continually cash in on the occasional newb?
I won a free laptop? Really?
This one was compelling to me, thus the few minutes I decided to waste posting this.
I’ve mentioned before how increasingly the ‘Live Web’ or ‘Blogosphere’ (or whatever you want to call this thing) is being infiltrated by Robot Blogs. What they appear to be doing is crawling the web and scraping excerpts of blog posts and reposting the excerpts, linking back to where it came from. They usually say:
“[KeyWord] wrote an interesting post today”
Since they link back to the blog post they scraped, they show up as a trackback in the comments area of the original post. This way, the unsuspecting blogger is linking to the fake blog. The fake blogs seem to be set up in an attempt at monetizing traffic via adsense ads.
I googled the phrase “wrote an interesting post today” and the top hit was (I probably am the top hit now) some blogger talking about filtering any comment that contains the phrase “wrote an interesting post today.”
I had decided to change my little tagline thingy to this exact phrase as a sort of inside joke for bloggers, but found myself wondering if being associated with that phrase will adversely effect my findability. Perhaps Search Engines or Spam Filters will begin to look out for that phrase?
Already, I bet there are tons of bloggers who filter out comments containing words like “viagra” or “casino,” assuming that there is absolutely no context in which these words could be used in a legitimate discussion. The fact that I am using those words here is proof that there is such a thing as a legitimate discussion which contains them.
Filtering for a word or phrase seems to me to be a slippery slope, especially if we’re talking about Search Engines, since they act as our main interface to the Web.
Google: Please don’t hate me because I said Viagra. I’m not a spammer.
From: Rosemaryky14
Subject: hi.. how’s it going!
Date: 10 Feb 2008, 13:32
So, i guess the time has come for me to start using this account. I can hold back no more! I wandered into your page and well, I liked what I saw.. :p
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