More like blessed are those that manage to avoid trash like this in their e-mail in-box! This one has been around as long as I have been paying attention to spam and spammers. It’s the usual ploy to tug at the heartstrings of sympathetic Christians and get them to send money to some scumbag scam [...]

Holy Smokes! I’ve hit the Federal trifecta! The U.S. Treasury, The FBI and now the super-spooks from the NSA! Some of the 419 spammers must be reading James Bamford’s books! This is really beginning to get hilarious! These spammers (who probably sent the U.S. Treasury and FBI spam) are now saying they want to protect [...]

First the U.S Treasury and now the FBI! And it’s from the director of the FBI himself! Wow, this must be quite a serious matter since I have to assume that it’s not typical for the director of the FBI himself to take the time to send a personal e-mail message out regarding a matter [...]

It is just me or is it a little strange that an e-mail that claims to be coming from the U.S. Treasury was sent by someone named "Alhaji suleiman Barau" using an e-mail address of test@mail.xie-cheng.com? I’d sooner believe that it actually came from an Iranian exiled in China! In reality it’s probably from some [...]

OK, this spam could be a number of different attempts to extract money from recipients. It could be as simple as some sneaky jackass who is trying to get folks to sign up at some dating site so he can make a few bucks in affiliate commissions, a practice known as e-whoring. It could also [...]

This twist on the classic 419 scam is not new, but with new people coming online every day, it’s worth posting this to give it as much as exposure as possible. The right kind of exposure of course! Once you’re onto these pathetic scammers it’s actually somewhat amusing to observe their efforts. Imagine the nerve [...]

Skype is a pretty nifty service. I mentioned Youtube as the go-to video site on the internet in the last post, and similarly, Skype is the go-to service for people who want to communicate on the internet via voice and video. The service is free to use but there are also premium services you can [...]

As so many internet users already know, spammers will spread their crap just about anywhere they can find a place to spread it. Youtube is no exception. As the go-to video site on the internet, there are an awful lot of eyeballs on Youtube and any site with that many users makes a spammer’s mouth [...]

At times I am truly impressed with the clever tactics that spammers come up with. As much as I hate spam, there’s no denying that there are some extremely clever spammers out there working hard to get spam into as many e-mail in-boxes as possible. For those not familiar with “Out of Office” e-mail messages, [...]

Although the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro might be welcomed by many Cuban’s who have suffered under his regime, the e-mail spam that is circulating and claiming that Castro is dead is just an effort to get internet users to click on links that lead to sites that attempt to infect their computers with [...]