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AOL Names Top Spam Subjects For 2005
JamesAlfaro writes "Donald Trump and "penis patch" were the most popular subject lines used by spammers this year, as the fraudsters grew more sophisticated in trying to trick consumers, America Online said Wednesday in its third annual Top 10 Spam List. Six out of the 10 top subject lines this year fell into what experts call "special-order spam," which pretend to be from a friend, or part of a legitimate, customer-driven transaction."
Sounds like the title of a children's book from Hell.
Garg
Alumnus, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
The topics/products that they are using must be effective because they keep the spammers in business. It's horrible, but since these spammers are in business, a LOT of people must be falling for them.
... you know, something really simple that would help the war on spam.
1) Clean up your 20 year old database of it's unused usernames
2)Blacklist any server/ip/whatever that sends email to x amount of disabled accounts (I would say x ==5 but any value really would work)
3) Publish said blacklist
There is no way a spammer could avoid an AOL address. Start doing this with hotmail, yahoo mail, netscape mail, whatever mail, and I think we would be able to lock off the "bad" senders a lot faster than projects such as spews.
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
What I STILL cannot figure out is WHY some jerk off thinks I would refinance my mortgage with, or trust the health and safety of Mr. Happy to, someone who cannot even fucking *SPELL*!!
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."
I am suprised that paypal pfishing didn't make the article. I get these every day.
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From the article:
How can anyone possibly fall for these ? I have the worst memory of anyone I know (or remember ;), and I have no trouble remembering if I have any bending applications or e-mail conversations.
Or are these things trying to make people think that they've accidentally gotten someone elses mail and might profit by playing along - are these messages trying to tempt people into trying to commit fraud in order to defraud them ? That would be ironic, and essentially the same tactic that Nigerian letters used - could the senders of Nigerian spam claim patent violation ?-)
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
At first I thought you meant AOL tops the list of spam subjects.
Me too!
Paris Hilton never writes me any more :(
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Penis Patches are of course for Penis Pirates (to go with the little penis parrots)
Yaaaaaaaaaaargggggh! Avast! I see booty
(etc etc etc)
You don't need to find the lusrs with pwned boxen. They, after all, are only doing what they've been told to do by us technical elitey types.
You just need to realize that the broadband providers are capable of stopping this problem by themselves, with their existing equipment, and the only reason they don't do it is because it would impact their revenue stream (well, that and the high correlation of greed with stupidity).
With Comcast's resources at my disposal, I could stop all spam and virus propagation from their networks in a month or less. But a certain number of customers (mostly spammers and other criminals) would stop paying their monthly bill as a result, and thus Comcast has a simple ROI equation: Screw you over, and get paid, do the Right Thing, and don't get paid.
Easy decision for them, because WE are letting them get away with it. Write your congresscritter, make Comcast (and their ilk) liable for running worm farms.
I think "firing his apprentice" is Donald's term for working his penis patch.
Well, i for one am happy to see the makers of penis are fast to respond to the latest penis exploits.
In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penisses, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.
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Thay're actually pretty heavy duty (I'm not going to discuss how I know). You'd have to be engaged in some pretty vigorous activity to damage one.
You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
Always update your penis regularly with the latest patches. It is effective security against viruses and bugs. Just don't use Microsoft patches, as they cause shrinkage and floppiness.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Parent is absolutly right. These toys are often quite large and sturdy. Having some knowledge of them I can say with confidence: here in the USA, glass dildo breaks YOU.