When I want to vent about the morons who spam email systems and bombard forums with their useless junk
Yet more stupid spam arrived in my inbox today. Lets just take two examples from the small tsunami that arrived. What spammers forget is that sending TWO emails from different people to the SAME address with similar messages in it really does give the game away. Then why on earth should someone send Security alert […]
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 they just fuck off and stop pissing people off. Re-write rules added to block them […]
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 I use Askimet : But they obviously never check that its working – mind you […]
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.
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.
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 the post….
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 back to Spamcop
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 wanted to use to make the data better. As well as that it’s been a […]
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] Ban 103.229.84.194 2014-10-23 12:51:27,010 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 59.94.15.250 2014-10-23 12:51:51,892 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban […]
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] Ban 77.42.202.232 2014-10-21 22:00:09,383 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 69.198.18.202 2014-10-21 22:00:09,828 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban […]