atmaspheric | endeavors

I just received this nasty scam email which makes it look like I am being billed for a new Treo 700P. If you click the link, you get sent to a “looks like” Paypal phishing scam. Be careful and lookout!
There’s no actual history of this in my Paypal purchase history which is good [...]

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According to Scoble… Akismet is still down…
I’ve been getting crushed by comment spam all day.

Technorati Tags: Spam, Akismet, Wordpress

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Hawk Wings posted a handy tip which I just implemented on killing the ever increasing volume of image spam slipping through my current Spam Sieve settings. Seems to have solved the issue for now.

Technorati Tags:
Spam, mail

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I just caught this as I was purging some spam and have to admit it caught my attention as I am sure was the intention.  It’s a total rip on the iPod ad treatment, minus the white headphones… best spam I’ve seen in a while.  A for creativity.  F for Spam.

Technorati Tags: Spam, iPod, Apple, [...]

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Installed!
Automattic Kismet (Akismet for
short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a
non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry
about spam again.
Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam « Akismet

Technorati Tags: spam, wordpress, automattic, trackback

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Mine is 2118 messages.

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I am not sure how this technique works, but on a daily basis I get anywhere between 10-15 messages from the same better than Kazaa spammer but the messages come through as though they’ve already been read. It’s an interesting tactic since regardless of how many times I tell my spam filter they are [...]

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I’ve received hundreds more comment spam attempts and actually about 200 hundred new spam comments this morning. The new ones are deleted, added to my blacklist and getting blasted. When my mail checks every 5 minutes I get anywhere from 30 to 50 new notifications of deletes. Pretty intense…
I checked [...]

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I’ve received several hundred comment spam attempts here in the past 12 hours and my Spaminator plugin has smacked them all down which rocks. If you use WordPress, I can’t recommend this enough!
Actually they just keep on coming… there have been at least another hundred since I initially deleted the notes in my email. [...]

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AOL reports on a considerable spam decline for the year… check out that graph - those are BILLIONS of emails. And it’s just AOL…

Time Warner Inc. unit America Online said it has seen a big decline in overall junk e-mail volume this year, in a reversal of a five-year escalation in spam aimed at [...]

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“request” - a spamologue by zefrank

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Just caught this one from Steven Frank…
Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines! [Spamusement!
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This seems like very good news in the fight against spam and seems to indicate that AOL just has way too much spam flooding their systems internally for them to figure out how to fight. One thing — I hope we all don’t start getting flooded with challenge / response emails.
AOL said it [...]

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No pricing info yet… it will certainly be interesting to track how this works. Given the knowledge they have from behind the scenes, one would think Verisign has what it takes to identify who is and is not likely to be a spammer…
For blocking malicious mail, the service deploys three antivirus engines. For policy [...]

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An America Online software engineer was charged Wednesday with harvesting a list of 92 million customer screen names that was eventually used to send spam… [Wall Street Journal]

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An interesting approach if you use the device as a main form of info gathering, but I think you’ll be better off filtering from one central location and getting the benefits on the go… I guess it all depends on much control you have over your server.
Software publisher SymbianWare has announced a new e-mail utility [...]

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Craig over at Gearbits continues to get pummeled by comment spam… Craig have you tried MT-Blacklist? unless you upgrade to MT3 and use Typekey or just turn comments off and go with trackbacks and Technorati, this is going to continue… damn spammers!
I’ve been very successful at blocking spam comments in WordPress, btw. [...]

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Emergic has launched a business focused Spam Solution…
We have launched Emergic CleanMail, an Internet-based spam filtering and virus scanning service for enterprises. Some key features:
# Triple-level Virus Scanning
# Multi-layered Anti-Spam capabilities stops 90-95% of Spam
# Spam Analysis Engine with auto-updates and auto-learning
# Personal Whitelists and Blacklists allow/block emails from specific IDs/domains
# Real-time Blackhole Lists capture [...]

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Scott Richter was profiled not too long ago on The Daily Show as a high volume sender… This should be a good battle.
SpamCop founder Julian Haight and Scott Richter, who reportedly is “one of the world’s most prolific spammers,” have agreed to meet for a public debate next month at the upcoming Email Technology Conference [...]

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While I personally did not find the spam protection to be sufficient, you might find the following of interest and useful if you are using or deciding on whether to use Mail as your email app. I am still running SpamAssassin at the server level and using SpamSieve locally to pick up things that [...]

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