Posted by Leefe on 28 September 2008 – 5:07 pm
Filed under Email
Tagged as scam, spam, trojan, virus
Ah, the joys having a email address published on a web site. All the fun spam you get.
I received this email claiming to be from the “Internet Service Provider Consorcium“. With an attached zip file.
From: “ICS Monitoring Team” <address@removed.to.protect.the.spoofed>
To: “client” <my@address>
Subject: Your internet access is going to get suspended
Your internet access is going to get suspended
The Internet Service Provider Consorcium was made to protect the rights of software authors, artists.
We conduct regular wiretapping on our networks, to monitor criminal acts.
We are aware of your illegal activities on the internet wich were originating from
You can check the report of your activities in the past 6 month that we have attached. We strongly advise you to stop your activities regarding the illegal downloading of copyrighted material of your internet access will be suspended.
Sincerely
ICS Monitoring Team
Pity they can’t spell Consortium. Their grammar needs some work. And shouldn’t their acronym be ‘ISPC’ not ‘ICS’?
I wonder when scammers will start to work on their spelling and grammar? Though, it must work for them to continue trying. I suppose most people just skim their email, so spelling mistakes are missed. And once they get the just of this one, they are too worried to notice.
Have a read of what other people are saying about this scam:
Posted by Leefe on 6 June 2007 – 6:23 pm
Filed under Email, News, Search
As it happens there is a man selling Sydney Rock Oysters laced with Viagra. His idea was to produce a super aphrodisiac. Perhaps a smart marketing move, unfortunately the same can’t be said about his Internet usage.
He has been trying to promote the idea through a website. And when an email from Google arrived saying saying it was the “fastest growing internet story since 9/11” he went straight to the media.
A story in the Sydney Morning Herald details how the wool was putted over his eyes.
My favourite quote from the story is:
“Obviously, I’m not dumb, if I’d knew there was anything wrong with it at that point I’d have gone ’shit I’m not going to put that on national television on Sunday night’.”
No, he is obviously just gullible and didn’t think to check the email authenticity.
Posted by Leefe on 17 October 2006 – 1:43 pm
Filed under Email, News, Search
Hormel Foods, the producer of the canned pork product Spam is trying to stop the dilution of its product name. It doesn’t mind too much that “spam” has become a colloquial term referring to junk email. What it objects to is use of the word “spam” in naming commercial products.
The EU trademark office has rejected its application. Citing the high count of sites using the junk mail meaning in Google. The second site when I checked was “spam.com“, the spiced ham fan club. So its not like it doesn’t appear at all.
I suppose the moral of this story is trademark your product name ASAP.
Posted by Leefe on 28 August 2006 – 11:19 pm
I have seen a number of people write incase when they really mean in case.
What’s the difference?
Incase refers to being enclosed within. Like “Incase that penguin in ice”. Also spelt encase.
Where as in case refers to doing something ‘in the event of’ or ‘as a precausion’. eg “you better set the penguin trap, just in case”
Posted by Leefe on 18 June 2006 – 1:31 pm
As a displacement activity to studying I decided to train SpamAssassin with the last few months of spam email. Uploaded the mailbox of spam to the server and entered the command salearn and got the error salearn: command not found.
Searching the SpamAssassin site and wiki were no help. After a bit of googling I discovered that the correct command is sa-learn, hmm. But the SpamAssassin wiki didn’t even have a page about that. OK, searching for that as a title found nothing, searching for it in the text produced a number or results.
So for those people forgetting the dash and people clicking the title search button rather than the text button I have added salearn and sa-learn pages that direct to the page with the required info. 
SpamAssassin wiki: salearn, sa-learn, BayesInSpamAssassin
Posted by Leefe on 17 February 2003 – 9:38 pm
Filed under Email, Tech
Tagged as Email, HOWTO, HTML
I prefer not to receive email sent as html. After explaining to people too many times why you should use plain text rather than html email I decided to write it up as a document.
Below is a link to version 0.5 of the documentation I have written. Why you should turn of html email, and how to do it in most common email programs.
Turn off HTML in email - HOWTO
