Mega Spammer Alan Ralsky and Son-in-Law Indicted Along with Several Other...
Mega spammer Alan Ralsky has been indicted under Federal anti-spamming law, along with ten other spammers involved in Ralsky’s operation, including Ralsky’s own son-in-law, Scott Bradley (”Oh dad, how...
View ArticleSpammers Now Using TinyURL to Avoid Spam Filters
Spammers are now cloaking their website domains in their spam by abusing the TinyURL service. TinyURL is a service which allows you to enter a gawd-awful long URL, and turn it into a, well, tiny URL,...
View ArticleScam Identity Theft Calls to Cell Phones Tout Expiring Auto Warranty, Coming...
People across the country are reporting telephone calls coming from the numbers 623-238-6228 and 408-587-2116. These calls claim that your car warranty is expiring, but they are really scam artists...
View ArticleChina Takes Notice when Chinese Spammers Spam 200 Million Chinese Cell Phones
The great firewall of China has since the beginning of the Internet age prevented people there from accessing many international news sites. And while there are welcome signs that the...
View ArticleA New Breed of Twitter Spam
Recently I got a notice that someone of whom I’d never heard was following me on Twitter. Now, this isn’t all that unusual – it happens to me at least once or twice a day. But when I checked this...
View ArticleWordPress Comment Spam Hack Disables Plugins and Allows Massive Comment Spam...
If you noticed that the Internet Patrol was down for a short while yesterday, it was because we were the target of a DCS (Distributed Comment Spam) attack. We actually took the site down ourselves,...
View ArticlePriest Mistakes Legitimate Invitation to Meet with Pope as Spam – Oops!
It seems like the clergy are subject to the same earthly problems as the rest of us after all. In this case, spam. A Roman Catholic priest, Reverend James Shea of Killdeer, ND, received an email from...
View ArticleVonage Caught Red-Handed Comment Spamming
Imagine our shock to discover that VoIP provider Vonage has turned to comment spamming. Oh, they will probably deny it, but what else can you call it when their Online Marketing Manager, Costas...
View ArticleSpammer Jailbreak
Prolific spammer Eddie Davidson was arrested last year, and, in April was sentenced to twenty-one months at the Federal prison in Florence, Colorado – about 3 hours north of Denver. He was remanded to...
View ArticleWeekly analysis – 27th February 2010 to 6th March 2010
MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 27th February 2010 to 6th March 2010 Excerpted from:Weekly analysis – 27th February 2010 to 6th March 2010
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