The Spam Diaries

 I just got a couple of those "please open this invoice" spams. It was sent to a tagged email address I'd only ever given to B...

I'm getting spam (we have embarrassing video of you) to a tagged address I gave to avcanada.ca. So either Avcanada sold my email addre...

I just got one of those "we have a video of you masturbating so send us money" spams. This one was a little different in that it i...

I'm getting spam (Russian women want to date you) to a tagged address I gave to tribe.net. So either  Tribe sold my email address to s...

A couple years ago, I attended the Android Developer's Conference (Andevcon). Ever since then, my inbox has been flooded with email sent...

Just one for the official record: an email address I only used for the San Jose Mercury news has been sold to the "El Paso Times Online...

Just a quick heads-up. With the holidays around, there's been a flood of fake FedEx spam. You get an email saying that the package was...

File this one under hidden costs of spam . I run a small server out of the back room in my house. It's just a place for me to keep my ...

New Zealand Business Day  reports that longtime spammer Wayne Mansfield has — again — been fined for spamming. The article, Spam leads ...

Based on a tip from John Levine's blog , I went back and looked at my own spam filter. Turns out that I've received two spams in the...

Today, I got hit by a phishing email from a Russian spammer.  The email was sent to a tagged email address I had only given to dyndns.org. ...

This is happening more and more often.  This time, I received a phishing spam to an email address I had only ever given to waiter.com. The...

Just received spam from Nikon camera to an email address I had previously given to deabath.com. Either DEA Bathroom sold my email address ...

Got some spam today to the tagged email address I had used only with Sporty's Pilot Shop. Yet another internet vendor who either think...

Got a pretty typical phish this morning; the usual "please help me launder my money out of Nigeria" scam. But the "From...

Ham is the term used to describe unwanted email that clogs up your inbox like spam, but isn't strictly-speaking spam.  It typically tak...

According to Tech News World , twitter Twitter is suing a number of spammers and spam-support providers. In particular, Twitter is going a...

An article from the Iowa Republican: Bachmann Campaign In Hot Water Over Misuse of Homeschooler Email List In a nutshell, the Bachman camp...

Just a quick pointer to a new blog run by Catherine Jefferson: MainSleeze The title pretty much says it all, it's a blog devoted to nami...

A tagged address I gave only to CDR Outlet has just received spam, ostensibly for some McDonald's coupons, but probably really a virus. ...