Tag: Spam
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More and more spam reviews on Amazon
Earlier this month I highlighted how a book that claims to be about using Python to build convolutional neural networks and yet, say readers, contains not a single line of Python, was garnering rave reviews on Amazon. The trend hasn’t stopped and it is pretty clear to me that these are, in fact, spam. Plainly…
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More evidence of Bitcoin bubble
Few things attract fraudsters more than bubbles. When the market is rising then their crimes get hidden – especially as those speculating in the market are unlikely to want to have its legitimacy called into question. So too with Bitcoin – the BBC reports that the ever inflating bubble in Bitcoin has attracted the criminals…
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After “comment spam”, comes “like spam”
Maybe if I had a blog that was visited by tens of thousands every day and on which hundreds wanted to comment it would not be so easy, but “comment spam” is not a problem here – anything which the algorithmic spam filter does not pick up can be chucked out by hand. But in…
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Surge in spam
Has anyone else noticed a large uplift in the volume of spam they are getting in recent days? In general the last couple of years has, for me at least, seen spam fall. Perhaps that is because tools like Spamassassin are better than ever or, more likely, because law enforcement agencies have started to take…
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Geeklist spamming people
I had never heard of Geeklist until last week, when I received an email from them and then read the story about their promotion of “brogramming” and abusive response to being called out for it. The email came first – and as I had never head of them this – Hi, my name is Jenny…
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Seven years of spamming
A couple of weeks ago Microsoft did the world a favour, taking down the Rustock botnet and reportedly reducing the volume of spam email worldwide by a third. Thew new chief botnet out there is “bagle” – and this is not such a great story. Because the bagle botnet – generally thought to have, at…
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