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Lame spam of the day: self-identified spam

Robert Weiner

This message didn't come from my anti-spam software and my ISP says it didn't come from theirs. Subject: **SPAM ** Re: µ¹.§A¤£°µ§@ª½±µ-»ù¨C¤ù¥u­n26¤¸. Text: Spam detection software, running on the system "nas", has. identified this incoming email as possible spam. To: ruhit_ray@hotmail.com.

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Lame spam roundup

Robert Weiner

Here's a random selection of strange and/or lame spams I've received recently. This one may not be spam, but I'm not going to click and find out. Thank you for buying Adobe InDesign CS4 software. Yes, the hyperlink was the first line of the spam, and points where it says it does. 1: I got several of these. report.htm).

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Lame spam of the day: FDIC Transactions stopped

Robert Weiner

I got a dozen spams today claiming to come from the FDIC. New security software is should be installed! New security software, should be updated! New security software, update required! Here are details on the exploit. The truly lame part is that the text is pale blue on white and is completely unreadable.

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Lame spam of the day: How are you

Robert Weiner

I'm guessing someone is taking their new spam software for a test drive. The subject line of both was "hi". The text was "How are you." Each took a twisting path through servers in multiple countries.

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Lame spam of the day: Your Intuit.com invoice.

Robert Weiner

Here's another set of spams claiming to come from Inuit. Your Intuit.com software order. Your Quickbooks software order. The text varied slightly but was along the lines of this one: Dear Customer: Thank you for purchasing your software Intuit Market. An earlier batch asked me to provide my tax information. risk@bbb.org.

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Lame spam of the day: Intuit GoPayment

Robert Weiner

These spams aren't 100% lame -- at least they included a logo and some design elements. But the From: address is obviously not from Intuit and text is pretty lame: "Your Intuit GoPayment statement for ONTIMEE SOFTWARE, DEVELOPMENTS has been accepted." Your Intuit GoPayment statement for ONTIMEE SOFTWARE, DEVELOPMENTS has been accepted.

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Tech Tools Working Together: How Text-To-Donate Paves the Way for Text Message Communication

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Spamming is illegal, and often goes straight to a junk mail folder. In contrast, text message spam is almost always viewed, making it more annoying to donors. Once a donor texts into the short code, the cell phone number is then captured by the fundraising software where it can be stored for future use.