My inbox has been polluted by a rash of these this week. They're so badly formatted, it's hard to believe anyone would fall for them. The spammers haven't even tried to make the reply-to address look legit. Some have a sender name from UPS but use the FedEx logo. Like this … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2012
Lame spams of the day: LinkedIn messages
I've been getting lots of these lately. They look reasonably line LinkedIn messages, though I don't recall ever getting something quite like this from LinkedIn. The subject has been "LinkedIn new messages" but the senders aren't LinkedIn addresses. This site says the links deliver … [Read more...]
Lame spams of the day: fortunemart
I've been getting hit with lots of spam from fortunemart@yahoo.com. These guys aren't even trying. Each spam has been one line of gibberish, plain text, no graphics, no formatting. I can't find any analysis of what happens if you click the links, and I'm not going to experiment. … [Read more...]
Lame spam of the day: They want me to donate $50 million?
Usually this type of come-on is offering me free money, but this one seems to want me to give them $50 million. Or maybe they're going to give me the money and I'm to regift it. Clearly we have a failure to communicate. Sender: Mrs. Alphonse Casambre … [Read more...]