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Lame spam of the day: Fake BBC news stories

Robert Weiner

Like most lame spam, this one lacks any formatting or graphics. The tricky part is that it's masquerading as a news story sent to me by a friend, and those typically lack formatting and graphics. This site says these are malware delivery vehicles.

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Practical, Actionable SEO Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You’ve heard many (many) times that all your nonprofit’s blog and site content should be optimized to drive traffic. Nikoleychuk predicts that search engines will release more spam and useful content updates in 2024 to try and weed out low-value content.” When a search engine crawls your site, it sees words and code—not the image.

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. I recognize so many snippets that have appeared in my spam folder over the years. { {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours.

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Lame spam of the day: Who Is She To You?

Robert Weiner

This type of phishing spam is seldom worth a glance, but I was drawn in by the subject line and the random capitalization. An interesting twist in the story is that brunext.com appears to be a real company. Brunext.net looks like an exact duplicate of that site. Sender: Malcox Jason [brunext@brunext.net]. Text: My Name Is Mr.

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Spamalot?

NCE Social Media

Let’s talk about spam and social media. When you think of spam you probably think of email. are also avenues for spam. . A story by Bloomberg Business Week states that as many as 40% of all social media accounts are spam. Putting spam and social media together leads us to two things.

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Lame spam of the day: You are highly needed

Robert Weiner

Including links to real news stories is a nice touch. Although the war has ended, for me to proved this to you, see the site below for more information, [link]. Most of these 419 scam emails aren't worth glancing at, but the language in this one was too good to pass up. Prove my sincererity, you are not sending me any money.

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Scary Security Stories to Tell in the Dark

Tech Soup

Gather 'round for I have scoured the depths of the Internet to bring you the most terrifying security stories. TechSoup's own Kevin Lo noticed some strange activity on his email accounts when friends were replying to spam he was supposedly sending out. Got some spooky security stories? Security breaches!

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