Tag Archives: spam

What is your personal spam index?

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It’s easy to work out, take the formula (that I just made up):

S / ( P x A ) = M

Where:
S = Total number of spam emails that you have
P = Period that they were collected over
A = Num of accounts collected from
M = My spam index

I use gmail so this calculation is easy:

S = 11,242 in my spam filter right now
P = 30 days (as it auto deletes after 30 days)
A = 2 (the main gmail account plus my 8+ yr old bealers.com email account)

M = 11242 / ( 30 x 2) = 187.37

So there you have it, my spam index is 187.37.

What’s yours?

WordPress spam plugin

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After getting over 200 comment spams in 2 days I decided to implement an automatic spam blacklist system as manual parsing wasn’t cutting it any more.

Akismet seems good:

We can’t stand spam.

Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the internet. Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.

http://akismet.com/

New Virus warning

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There is a dangerous virus being passed electronically, orally and by hand.
The virus is called Worm-Overload-Recreational-Killer (WORK). If you receive
WORK from any of your colleagues, your boss or anyone else, by any means, DO
NOT TOUCH IT. This virus will wipe out your private life and any fun you’d
like to have, completely.

If you should come into contact with WORK put your jacket on and take two
good friends to the nearest bar. Purchase and consume one or both of the two
known antidotes; Work-Isolation-Neutralization-Extractor
(WINE) or Bothersome-Employer-Elimination-Rebooter (BEER). Take the antidote
repeatedly until WORK has been completely eliminated from your system.
You should forward this warning to 5 friends.

If you do not have 5 friends, you have already been infected and WORK is
controlling your life.

Woo Hoo I’m rich AGAIN!

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From: XXXXXXXXXX
To: bealers@gmail.com
Date: Sep 16, 2005 11:45 AM
Subject: PRIVATE MESSAGE / Darren Beale

FROM: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Corporate Legal Practitioner
Arbitrators and Property Consultants.
XXXXXXXXXXXXX,lome TOGO.

Dear Darren Beale,

I am Barrister: XXXXXX XXXXXXX,a solicitor of law, personal attorney to Mr.B.J.Beale,a national Of your country,who used to work with Shell Development Company in Lome Togo,as a registered contractor. Here in after shall be referred to as my client. and it happen that the man registered to me as his personal attorney.
Unfortunately the man died in a motor accident which happened on 31st October, 2002. All occupants of the accident unfortunately lost there lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy here in lome Togo,to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.After several attempts,I then decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence i contacted you, to assist in repartrating the fund valued at US$10 .5 million left behind by my client before it gets confisicated or declared unserviceable by the Security Finance Firm where this huge amount were deposited.
The said Security Finance Company has issued me a Notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confisicated within the next twenty one official working days. Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the relatives for over 2years now, I seek the consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last names, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer.I have all necessary information and legal documents needed to back you up for claim.
All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be
executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me through the above email for more
details.

Best regards.
XXXXXX.

Related:
http://bealers.com/2005/09/05/comedy-spam/