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Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam
Saturday 18th August 2007
I have always been careful and vigilant when online, avoiding giving email addresses out, not visiting dodgey sites, and I have been quite lucky and have avoided most of the bulk spam. Sure I get some spam, everybody does, but its usually in the region of 20 emails and about the same number of spam comments through wordpress.
That was until last night, when I had over 2000 spam comments, and nearly 400 emails in one night. Mesothelioma was a popular email, as was refinancing mortgages, tax attorney and loan consolidation. There were also quite a few car accident lawyer scams as well, just as well I already have a lawyer. And just what is mesothelioma anyway?
All of these spam comments were successfully blocked by Akismet, anyone running a blog should be using it, and 99% of the junk email was filtered out by Thunderbird. Its a shame I spend over an hour downloading 482 new emails.
Why can’t the spammers just go back to the hole they crawled out from? There mass mailing and bulk spam techniques don’t work and just annoy people. Just think how much faster the internet would be without all that spam traffic…
This post is filed under Site News by Lonewolf at 1:52pm
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