Well today saw another random 419’er drop on my virtual doorstep.
Here is a link explaining What a 419’er is
He violated no less than 75% of my IM rules.
My IM rules are basically sent to anyone who IM’s me that I don’t know. Within 2 lines they get the URL (which officially will change to a tinyurl ref: http://tinyurl.com/2nprbg)
Personally, there are a couple of things I wish you could do in the IM world:
1) Hit a spam button which gets your IM account and IM’s temporarily monitored
2) Auto send a link, document to anyone who IM’s you for the first time.
3) have some recourse other than “Block” against abuse.
Just my $0.02 for the day.
-me
One of the latest waves of spam has been “Penny Stocks”
These are spams for small companies that are traded on markets. The only problem is that the Markets that you’ve heard of… “Dow Jones, Nasdaq, AMEX, etc” won’t touch them because they are (if you’ll forgive me) small change.
Pretty much any stock trading under $1.50 per share is just too damned volatile to consider.
One of my Penny Stock Spams was for a company that specializes in new technology.
their tech?
…a leader in the fight against email based viruses, spam, and outbound threats of corporate espionage….
Trading at $0.11 per share on August 2 they haven’t actually traded any shares since.
So.. I open my email and I have a mail with Subject:
僕にも出来た
Which my computer and I translated as: “Even I could do it!”
The message was:
やっぱり女子〇生とズッコンバッコン！
Which is probably obscene. I’m given the impression the O symbol is obscene and I have no idea what Zucone-Bacone means. So it sort of looks like:
After all the woman (something maybe obscene) raw and Zucone-Bacone.
I’m certain my more fluent in Japanese readers can shake their heads at this.
But yes.. it looks like Spam isn’t just for English anymore. So that leaves the question:
English:Nigeria :: Japanese:????
I use two IM programs at once. iChat and Adium
Yes, for those who haven’t figured it out yet… I am a Mac person.
I use iChat for my primary AIM account. I use Adium for all my other accts: yahoo, msn, ICQ, private AIM, lurking accts. No… I do not have an IM account as a 14 year old girl. (Shudder, those people scare me)
Since ICQ has “Authenticate to add” requirements for seeing a person’s online status, I will occasionally get random auth requests. My policy, is that I don’t add anyone I wouldn’t be interested in talking to. Now, the auth request will often include a message. For example, “Thanks for the chat, here’s the auth request you said I could send.”
Today I got another random auth request. The message was along the lines of (actual link read and promptly forgotten):
User 153#8#4# is requesting authentication: The message is:
“http://some.extreme.spamsite/linktosomething/unsolicited.php”
I like Adium/ICQ because you not only can deny authentication, but you can send a message back as well explaining the denial.
So… feeling extremely gregarious (and for those who know me really well there will be some humour in the irony of me choosing that word), I sent a simple explanation as to why I was denying authentication:
Spam spam spam. Die die die. Please log off and never use a computer again, you are a child with no sense of what the Internet is to be used for.
All the while envisioning Ling Ling (from “Drawn Together”) attacking. Which has now been added as a new icon for future posts.
