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Behind The "Work-At-Home" Street Spam Signs

Posted by Hemos on from the tracking-down-the-man-with-the-plan dept.

Sabalon writes: "If you live almost anywhere in the U.S. then you have probably seen tons of the 'Make thousands working at home' signs tacked up almost everywhere. Cockeyed.com has an interesting story of one persons quest to uncover the source behind all this money just waiting to be made, the company behind it (or not behind it for legal reasons), and an oversaturated market." Spam, just another medium.

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  1. Re:Geez... by crow · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    While it might be nice for Slashdot to cache pages, there are copyright issues with doing that. Many sites would prefer people visit the real site (so as to preserve advertising revenue, preserve brand identity, and such).

    Also, Slashdot has enough trouble keeping up with its own bandwidth requirements.

  2. Re:I don't know about you... by trenton · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hey, it's not your opinion that counts. It's the mod's.

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  3. Who you calling redundant? by John+Harrison · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    For those of you modding me as redundant, please note that I posted my copy of page 3 exactly 1 minute before the copy that is currently rated +5 was posted.

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  4. Re:in email too by rschwa · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    My ISP runs a tweaked up version of SpamAssasin to great effect.

    I get a bunch of X-Spam fields tacked on to each email that evaluate its 'spamosity'
    For instance:
    X-Spam-Report: 28.5 hits, 6 required; * 1.0 -- Subject contains lots of white space * 4.0 -- Invalid Date: header (timezone does not exist) * 2.8 -- BODY: Uses a dotted-decimal IP address in URL * 1.2 -- BODY: Tells you how to stop further SPAM * 3.2 -- BODY: URL of page called "remove" * 1.3 -- BODY: "if you do not wish to receive any more" * -2.0 -- BODY: Contains a claim of copyright * 4.2 -- BODY: Asks you to click below * 2.0 -- BODY: Link to a URL containing "unsubscribe" * 1.1 -- BODY: Saved web page * 2.0 -- BODY: Image tag with an ID code to identify you * 1.6 -- BODY: Link to a URL containing "remove" * 2.0 -- Received via a relay in relays.osirusoft.com [RBL check: found 254.1.233.63.relays.osirusoft.com.] * 2.0 -- Received via a relay in relays.ordb.org [RBL check: found 2.48.70.194.relays.ordb.org.] * 2.1 -- Subject contains a unique ID number