Category Archives: Sad Spammers

When I want to vent about the morons who spam email systems and bombard forums with their useless junk

The scum at Semalt are at it again

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Steve

I got a lot of hits with a referrer of keywords-monitoring-your-success . com Lots of different IP addresses – all in Brazil… And guess what : yes its the scum at Semalt up to their old tricks again. Why can’t … Continue reading →

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Spamming Fuckwits

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Steve

It’s pretty obvious that spammers (i.e. the people controlling the compromised machines that are doing the work) are a bunch of stupid fuckwits… This site gets between 10 and 20 spam comments a day… None of them have appeared because … Continue reading →

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Greek University BotNet

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Steve

The following emails arrived in exactly the order they are shown here……  something tells me the University has a bit of a botnet going on.  

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Gifted Psychic? Stupid Spammer more like

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Steve

Come on Spammers – do you really think shit like this gets through? Surely a “Gifted Psychic” would have known this would get flagged up as spam.

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Are Spammers getting even thicker?

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Steve

Or are they simply paying the people who spam such shit money that they can’t even run a script properly? Look at this pile of crap that I found as a blocked comment today : That’s only about 1/5th of … Continue reading →

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The stupidity of spammers

Posted on December 26, 2014 by Steve

I’ve been using spambucket as a junk email address for quite some time – this is first time someone has ever actually sent email to it. Any email that comes to this address is automatically flagged as spam and reported … Continue reading →

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Bits and bobs

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Steve

Although I should be working on getting all the data loaded into the Canalplan Boats Database I’ve not been making a lot of progress on getting the new data and the old data mapped into a new structure which I … Continue reading →

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Todays list of scum

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Steve

2014-10-23 04:39:51,514 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [apache-wplogin] Ban 198.23.155.76 2014-10-23 11:02:05,033 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 111.249.35.151 2014-10-23 12:44:57,061 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [sasl] Ban 63.152.242.19 2014-10-23 12:47:16,215 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 49.230.184.69 2014-10-23 12:49:02,731 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 185.7.100.97 2014-10-23 12:49:41,087 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] … Continue reading →

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Fail2ban tweaks

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Steve

So I tweaked Fail2ban so it picked up failed SASL auth sesssion… There are a LOT of compromised machines out there: 2014-10-21 15:57:08,236 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 222.247.167.96 2014-10-21 22:00:08,119 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 122.165.90.186 2014-10-21 22:00:09,089 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] … Continue reading →

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Once again – the spammers are very very odd.

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Steve

This morning I apparently sent myself some spam. Who in their right mind would ever think that this wasn’t spam when it arrives in their inbox?

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