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I just received a political spam for a candidate running for a not-local-to-me house seat. Mailed via an open relay (ie 78.154.42.81 DNSstuff.com doesn't allowing linking to results anymore) located in Iran. How's that for irony?

Yeah, sure. GoDaddy hates spam. Too bad they can't police their own networks though. My trackback logs are filled with trackback spam coming from 208.109.211.150, a GoDaddy IP address. A quick look at Google shows that this has been going on for quite some time.

I guess Bob Parsons is too busy plastering his logo over everything that he can instead of watching over his company.

Been playing with the stats over at daria.be today.

Worked out that the Akismet plugin has stopped a total of 213,090 comment spams from reaching the blogs.

That's a lot.

Check out the count updated on the front page of daria.be under the Site Stats header.

[digg=http://digg.com/playable_web_games/Got_called_a_spammer_this_morning/] *chuckle* Gotta love this: I've been playing RuneScape for the past few days and spending time over at Sal's Runescape forum. I had a question about carrying gold and asked it. During the discussion, I thanked the responders for their responses trying to be polite. Imagine my surprise when I get a note from a moderator over there stating that I had spammed. His reasoning was that if a post does not add to the content of the discussion, it would automattically be considered spam. While I agree with that rule, can understand it and fully support it, please note that my thanking folks for their time is considered spam. That means politeness is spammy. Whoa! I also disagree with that I didn't add to the content of the discussion. My thanking folks acknowledged that I read the discussion and thanked them for their time. I had been told by another moderator that we should always stated that we had our questions answered and that's what I did. So I'm an evil spammer. I guess I should go hang my head in shame. Mind you that the forums are filled with worse issues that are being ignored. Bloodly hell.

I love it when a spammer gets caught. :) lampany13.org A quick nod of thanks to bestfreehost.org.

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Two computer programmers have been arrested in South Korea on suspicion of unleashing a torrent of spam on the country between September and December last year.

Police allege that the two men - a 20-year-old and 26-year-old - sent some 1.6 billion unsolicited emails aimed at obtaining financial information for resale to loan companies. Authorities said the pair flogged 12,000 South Korean's details, netting them around $106,400.

But yet they won't do anything about the spam flowing out of their country to other countries.

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So, just to recap, T-Mobile hired Quantum Media who hired Mailtrack Media who hired E-Mail Movers who bought a list from Century Communications who bought it from a bloke on eBay.

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Distributive Networks Inc., a Washington, D.C., marketing company that sells Astromobo horoscopes, Daily Pop Gossip, Mad Love Tips and Rinstar Mobile services for cell phones, is settling with the plaintiffs for somewhere in the neighborhood of $150,000 over allegations of text message spamming.

...As determined by the inhabitants of NANAE

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Heard in a coffee shop:

"So I got this email from my bank about how they needed to update my information about my account and I clicked on the link and filled in all of my information and the strangest thing I had money missing from my account. I have to call them sometime and see what's going on."

*sigh*

Maybe someday folks will realize that if your bank has an issue with your account, they're going to write you about it, not send you an email.

/me shakes his head...