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MyBlogLog Spam Getting Worse? I’d Say So.

February 18, 2007

This morning, I checked my email to see that I was invited to be a coauthor the “Blogmeme_Belgium” MyBlogLog page (I won’t link directly to the page because the load time is horrendous with all the authors who have signed up — there are at least 300 of them and their avatars ALL load on the sidebar). Beyond the number of authors, there are 188 members in the community.

Since I have no involvement with this site, I didn’t accept the invitation. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one:

MyBlogLog Author Acceptance Denied

The strange thing is that this is the only rejection that I was able to visibly acknowledge (though I am sure that most people did not accept the invitation — those 300 people who did are a small chunk of the people who appeared to have been invited!). Sadly, a good amount of my blogging buddies actually blindly joined this spammy community!

One of the smarter “coauthors” made sure to label the community appropriately:

This is MyBlogLog Spam

The gamethis.com URL links to an ebay auction, where someone was looking to sell the domain name (and did for $1200). What it comes down to is this: this was certainly unwanted spam.

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Rand Spam: The World Knew, and the Spammers Did Too

February 17, 2007

Earlier this week, I was troubleshooting an issue with our mail server and found a spam email sitting there that caught my eye (especially since I posted about it 10 days ago). Rand, you captured the hearts of many women, and you even caught the attention of the spammers. For that, I thank you for making me laugh. :)


Spam in a CanReceived: (qmail 15223 invoked by uid 110); 9 Feb 2007 12:42:40 -0500
Delivered-To: [redacted]
Received: (qmail 15220 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2007 12:42:40 -0500
Received: from 201-x-x-x.spammer.stuff.removed.here.ar (HELO computername) (201.x.x.x)
by ip.address.not.4u with SMTP; 9 Feb 2007 12:42:40 -0500
Message-ID: <453f01c74c71$0e406913$[email protected]>
From: "Forged Name" <@[redacted-forged-header].com>
To: "Random name" [redacted]
Subject: What Happened to Super Bowl's Mystery Groom?
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:40:34 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
format=flowed;
charset="Windows-1252";
reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000

Spam message removed within

Well, at least it wasn’t all sysadmin work. :)

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Marketing Spam the Facebook Way

December 14, 2006

It seems that marketers on Facebook are getting desperate. Today, I checked my email account and was welcomed to the following two messages from two individuals I don’t even know:

Facebook Spam

I’m a bit frustrated. I graduated college several years ago and I use the system to network with old friends and make new friends. The friend invites are fine (and I encourage them from among my readers ;) ), but the group invites just aren’t.

I hope that Facebook takes proper measures preventing abuse of their system, especially because I don’t want random people sending me group invites when I’m not in their direct network, and I think that enabling that kind of communication is a nightmare waiting to happen.

However, even though it is annoying, it’s also pretty smart. I could always Adblock the ads I don’t want to see. Gmail and other mailing services generally do a good job flagging emails as spam — and I can whitelist addresses I know are good. Since I assume that Facebook emails are generally well-intentioned, I’m inclined to read all of them, so the email is in my face. And the URL is in my face too. (Now I know that YouTube has a competitor.)

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Take Advantage of a Flop by Spamming

October 19, 2006

With all of Orkut’s failures, there’s still nothing that Google is doing to drive its visitors to the site. Obviously, the plan is to give it a slow and painful death.

With my 5 friends and inactivity on my account, I’ve received a flurry of emails in the past 2 days notifying me that someone (unnamed, usually just a hyphen) has signed my wall. I decided to sign onto my inactive account and witnessed a bunch of unnecessary (and, in most cases, not even in the English language) spam with links.

I deleted the spam, but I’m certain there will be more as time progresses.

I’m surprised that Google, which is so good about combating (or at least acknowledging) spam on Gmail, decided to let their social networking site suffer this fate. There is no requirement to be someone’s friend to sign their wall, which is a prerequisite to post testimonials on Facebook and MySpace. And it’s also a shame they did nothing to make it popular, because Orkut is pretty fast (unlike MySpace) and would have had potential back in the day.

Well, at least some people are utilizing it for personal gain.

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Inside Peek into Windows Live Mail Beta

October 11, 2006

I don’t know why, but I still use Hotmail as my primary email provider (well, 97% of all my Internet accounts are tied to my Hotmail address). I’ve had a few gripes with spam management, primarily in Microsoft’s inability to whitelist email address that I time and time again continually add to my whitelist. (I have my spam protection on low, but apparently that’s an abnormal thing to do because everytime I go to my Junk Email folder, Microsoft asks me if I’m sure I want to stay on that setting.)

Perhaps Microsoft finally decided to roll out something that will improve upon its lousy spam data mining algorithms, or it was more concerned about making an enhanced GUI that likens Microsoft to Gmail and Yahoo! mail (both of which are superior, and the latter of which is in its own beta program as well).

In any event, the new interface feels like Outlook Web Access, a feature for Microsoft Exchange. Fortunately, it also feels like OWA for Exchange 2003.

Microsoft Windows Live Mail Beta Screenshot

I’ll play around with it a little more and give my opinion, but so far, I am beginning to like this new interface and only hope Microsoft can fix their spam detection; it’s worse than having no spam protection at all!

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