Category: Spam

July 14, 2016

How Blog Comments are Auto Generated

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experience, so it’s nice to read this weblog, and I used to pay a quick visit this website daily

Now that’s a very strange sentence above. The words sort of make sense but it’s written in a way that no person would ever do. How come?

Because it’s created by an automatic blog comment generator.

Here’s another example.

Very handful of web-sites that come about to become in depth beneath, from our point of view are undoubtedly nicely worth checking out.

Spammers have long since automated the process of adding spam messages to blogs as comments. It seems a stupid thing to do but it gets their message on the Internet. Google and other search engines can spot when a spammer copies a comment repeatedly on multiple blogs. So, the spammers have software that modifies the comment by using a thesaurus to replace certain words or phrases.

The result is then posted to the blog.

If you have a blog and have been getting strange comments – maybe it’s the automated comment generator at work.

If so, there’s no point complaining to the author – just delete the rubbish comments.

July 13, 2016

How to Spot Scam Emails

Scam and spam emails may display some of the following characteristics:
Sender’s Email Address

The sender’s email address will display as whatever the sender wants it to e.g. Santander Accounts Department, but the actual email address is usually also available, depending on which email client you are using. It may be that you can right click on the address and see properties which will tell you the actual email address or maybe if you print the email then it will show.

If the actual email address doesn’t match the name then you probably have a scam message, especially if the actual email address is something like a Hotmail or Gmail account rather than a business email address.

If the sender’s email address doesn’t tally with the trusted organisation’s website address, then the message is a scam or spam.

Recipient’s Email Address

Scam emails are usually sent to out to large numbers of people so it will probably be addressed to either “Undisclosed recipients” or to the senders name. This can be a sign of a scam or spam email.

If the email does not use your proper name, but uses a non-specific greeting like “dear customer” that can mean scam or spam.

Subject

Emails from people you know will usually have a meaningful subject whereas emails from scammers and spammers have a subject designed to make you open the message. E.g. Fountain of Youth drink.

Content

A scam or spam email will focus on getting you to click on a link. If you hover the cursor over the link you’ll be able to see where the link would take you and it’s very often somewhere different to where it says. E.g. the link says ‘Satander Accounts’ but the actual link is to some meaningless URL you don’t recognise. Even a one character difference between what is says and the actual link can prove it’s a scam e.g. the link says barclaysbank.co.uk but the link is actually to barclaybank.co.uk which will be a scam site.

Sometimes, scam and spam emails have grammatical errors or are just badly written and often they impose a sense of urgency (you must act now to save your account).

If the content of the message is a picture rather than text – this can mean scam or spam.

Be vigilant over all emails and don’t be caught out.

July 9, 2016

What Are Those Time-Wasters Up To Now?

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

An offer to put 2 million banner adverts on the Internet over a 4 week period for just £645 – You can see why there are so many ads on the Internet – they are very cheap but also largely ineffective.

A Chinese printing company wanting to do our printing at low prices – it isn’t real though. Just someone looking for leads to sell.

A moron offering the recipe for a drink that can solve all problems known to mankind. And the end of the message includes half a page of random words – trying to foil the spam catcher software into thinking it’s not spam. But it so obviously is just that.

An email offering to compare accountants. The message is from [email protected] which is a giveaway that it’s just someone looking for leads to sell to accountancy companies.

A genuine email from an organisation that does language translation for business – harmless but no use to us as a volunteer radio station. The email goes on about international competitors taking our business and how much more profitable international work can be. Irrelevant.

These people just waste our time and clog up the Internet with rubbish.

July 3, 2016

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week

So, what’s the dumbest scam or spam on the Internet this week?

This one is from someone calling him or herself” Stitched Up” – not something to inspire confidence.

Instead of hiding who the message was sent to – the recipients names are there on show – hundreds of them similar to my email address, telling me this message has potentially gone out to many thousands if not millions of people.

The dumbest thing is that the link they want us to click on is written wrongly so shows as program code rather than a link. There isn’t anything to click on.

This idiot even left part of a previous email at the bottom of this one.

What a moron.

July 2, 2016

What Are Those Time-Wasters Up To Now?

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days

A common spam email about hand held card payment machines – but in French to a .co.uk Internet address – That’s just dumb!

A typical 419 scam email about £19.850,000 in a London Bank for me to collect 50% of for just pretending to be the heir to a long dead American – Yup I’m certain this is all true and the money’s waiting for me. I’ll just have to pay the processing charges or something similar then never hear from my accomplice ever again.

Apparently I have been selected to win a brand new iPhone 6S – Fantastic, except that it’s just from a lead generation company looking for idiots who respond to these kind of messages.

An email claiming to have ‘The final version of the report’ enclosed. It says

Ola Hebert asked me to send you the attached WORD document which contains the final version of the report. Please let me know if you have any questions on the contents of the report.

Kind regards, Bob Rodriguez, Key Account Director.

This is all rubbish of course, designed to get you to open the attached Zip file which will not be a report but something rather more nasty. To make it more obvious, the next email is exactly the same message but with names changed. Pathetic.

These people just waste our time and clog up the Internet with rubbish.

June 26, 2016

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week

An email from Amelia Lily ([email protected]) titled ‘I am thinking of you’

This is clearly intended to be romantic and supposedly contains her attached photos.

It warns – see the photos but quickly remove them.

That suggests they are naughty photos.

But the desired effect is cancelled by the fact that the scammer is too dumb to hide the addresses of the recipients so you can see it’s been sent to hundreds of men. The names are all similar to mine which suggests it’s one of a set of probably many thousands of such emails sent out.

Romantic – I don’t think so.

Just dumb!