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Lol that's one way to turn things on its head. pic.twitter.com/JMSwnx2Vmg

— Adam Bennett (@AuAnon) March 1, 2018

Replying to Chinese scammers with the Chinese phrase, "June 4th Tienanmen Square Massacre," to arouse the ire of Chinese authorities is brilliant.

Your New Yearsn Buyllsh%$ Debunking

You may have received an email describing Silver pockets full that goes something like this:

August, next year, will have 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This happens only once every 823 years. The Chinese call it 'Silver pockets full. " So: send this message to your friends and in four days money will surprise you. Based on Chinese Feng Shui. Whoever does not transmit the message ... may find themselves poor.

It's crap.

This is August 2014:

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31

This is August 2025:

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31

Any questions?

Comments Will Be Moderated for a While

Recently, I have gotten a lot (for this blog, anyway) of spam comments on my blogs.

Hair extensions, office furniture, and tools.

Just to clarify my comments policy:  I moderate ONLY for spam.

I have few enough readers as is.

The "tell" for spam is generic text, and a link to some sort of unrelated commercial activity.

If the link is germane, it's OK, but this is almost never a link for a good or a service.

If you feel that you have been targeted unfairly, contact me.

If you want to post an ad on my blog, we can talk terms.

They Should Take the Fillings from Their Mouths

It appears that Henry Perez and Suzanne Bartok, proprietors of AMP Dollar Savings, used a program called Bulk Mailing 4 Dummies, and sent 2.8 millionspam emails to CIS internet services, a small ISP with about 5000 subscribers, and the judge ordered them to pay $236 million in damages.

Note that the judge assessed the fine against them, and not just AMP Dollar Savings.

Once Again, Will No One Rid Me of This Turbulent Spammer?

Yep, it's Spamford Wallace, yet again, and he has finally lost the lawsuit that MySpace filed against him, by default. I wrote about this suit 9 months ago.

He apparently refused to respond to the court, so there was a default judgment.

If I were a judge, I'd have had his ass thrown in jail for contempt.

If I were a juror in the trial of his murderer, I might vote to convict.

Spam Conviction Upheld

Under Virginia law, Jeremy Jaynes will serve his 9 year sentence under Virginia law, so says the Virginia Supreme Court, which found that the VA anti-spam law was not an infringement on the first amendment.

5-4 decision.

A Spammer and A Genius

It appears that spammers are using sex to enlist human brain power to foil Captchas.

This is a Captcha:

Basically, the spammers have, "created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image".

The Captcha comes from a site that uses them to prevent spam, Yahoo comes to mind as a prominent example.

This is brilliant. Evil, but brilliant. If only this man could use his powers of technology and psychology for good, instead of evil.

Ron Paul is a Spammer

Well, it appears that botnet of compromised machines are sending out email pimping for Ron Paul.

It should be noted that the article does note that the researcher who discovered this has no evidence of any connections between the Paul campaign and the botnet spammers.

Given the genuinely altruistic bent of spammers, it is possible that these people are just acting out of the goodness of their hearts, just like Dick Cheney does.

Normally, I'm Against the Death Penalty, But In His Case, I'll Make an Exception

Notorious spammer Christopher "Rizler" Smith was sentenced to 30 years in prison. There is a part of me, the lizard brain, which was hopint for the death penalty.

Between dealing Hydrocodone and Viagra, and threatening the children of a witness, he's going to be in jail for a very long time.

Ironically, because of his efforts, his cell mates will have easy access to Viagra and Cialis.

OOPS!!!

Will No One Rid Me of This Meddlesome Spammer?

It appears that MySpace has gotten a court injunction to keep Sanford Wallace out of their service.

The preliminary injunction came in a lawsuit MySpace filed in March. It claims Wallace created more than 11,000 MySpace profiles that churned out private messages, comments and bulletins that directed users to spoofed MySpace pages seeking their login information.

The ruse allowed him to hijack at least 320,000 accounts, which he used to send 400,000 private messages and post 890,000 comments, both of which redirected MySpace users to the sites freevegasclubs.com and realvegas-sins.com. The sites are owned by Feeble Minded Productions, an aptly-titled firm affiliated with Wallace.

He's not going to change. Can someone just send him to Gitmo or something?

It looks like he is covered under CAN-SPAM, and the least the judge thought it was likely enough that he granted the injunction, and there is potential jail time ther.

Favorite comment of the piece:

We were unable to find a phone number for Wallace and were reluctant to email him.

I gotta go clean my screen now.

Now They Want My Poop

Every workplace has it own quirks, where I am now, this is a fairly high volume of company spam email.

While one expects things like the occasional notice of a blood drive or a United Way Campaign, one gets 2-10 emails here a day that are sent to the whole place.

These are things like:

• Equipment that they want to give away for someone to take home.
• Equipment that they want to give to another lab.
• Petty cash status
• Sales pitches for the health club they have in the basement.
• Sales pitches for massages available through said health club.
  
• Requesting volunteers to provide samples for testing to validate processes.

This time, it's gone a bit odd. They are offering $20.00 for a stool sample.

It's just a very odd thing to see first thing Monday Morning.

In any case, they get nothing from me. I must protect my purity of essence.