🚫Statement: Spam marketing, investment scams, and spamming accounts will be blocked and reported without explanation or interaction.

My comment section is not for your advertising. Those who come near, get lost.
#scamalert #spam

hm. this thing seems to be popping up again and again https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636937 #greytrapping #email #runyourownmailserver #spam #spamd #greylisting #antispam

Une association récupère mon adresse #email et l'inscrit sans mon consentement sur sa liste de diffusion.

Je leur écris une dizaine de fois pour savoir comment elle a récupéré mon adresse et s'est assurée de mon consentement. Aucune réponse.

Au bout de quatre mois je dépose une plainte auprès de la #CNIL.

L'association finit par me répondre… sans me donner aucune des informations demandées, et me demande de cesser de leur écrire.

Ce retournement de situation de faux culs… 🥲

#spam #RGPD

My cache all email got some spam/phishing email with the link url being a github.io url.

I am wondering if something scraped my Mastodon instance and misidentified the account, which doesn't have an email account created, as an email address. How do I report this to #github? #Phishing #Spam

mail-auth-service-source dot github dot io/srf-client_id-REDACTED?emp=redacted@oldfriends.live is the link

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Mail Service Message delivery has been temporarily suspended for redacted@oldfriends.live due to a pending verification. Messages affected: 5 Re-authenticate to restore delivery and view held messages:

Here's a head-shake worthy #spam from overnight if anyone wants to play with the scammer:

I'm Jeff Bezos,
The CEO of Amazon, it's on this note that I'm informing the world of my intention to give out my Fortune of $124 Billion of my wealth to the lucky ones around the country and world at large.
Congratulations, your name and details were randomly selected from some Google business contact listing as one of the beneficiaries of this
charity project. each person would be awarded $1,200,000,00
[link to a cnbc story, jeff-bezos-says-he-plans-to-give-away-most-of-his-124-billion-fortune]
DONATION CODE: G506328
Contact how to proceed.
Email: mrjeffbezos87 (at) gmail dot com

Spam wird immer ausgeklügelter. Beinahe hätten sie mich gehabt.

#spam

Seeing FQDNs like "mtmoqiuq.20.218.142.124.static.hostiran[.]name" and "sgrwnbid.172-202-98-170.cloud-xip[.]com", we first thought some ASNs could be exploited similarly to the ".ARPA abuse" we described in one of our recent blogs. Turns out we were overthinking it... This kind of "DNS abuse" is so straight forward... We're not sure it qualifies as DNS abuse...

Here is what is going on: Whatever IP address you prepend to "static.hostiran[.]name" creates a hostname which resolves to this IP... That is it! Same goes for cloud-xip[.]com!

We've seen these kinds of hostnames a lot in SPAM emails recently, like the one we screenshot below which loads an image from a CDN as a giant hyperlink. We aren't sure why malicious SPAM actors bother to use this trick in their email links... If they control an IP, they can use it directly in URLs. They don't need a domain name!? And it isn't like this bypasses a firewall... If their IP is blocked, queries to those FQDNs will be too...

Our best guesses are that:
- Using hostnames rather than IPs helps them bypass SPAM email detection?
- And / or it enables them to create "subdomains", which they seem to be doing to track something, either SPAM campaigns, or their victims.

Technically, this could be used to create lookalike FQDNs. Those examples look like random subdomains, but literally anything can be prepended to the IP, so the only limit is your imagination! Not the most convincing lookalike by any means... but we've seen worse!

Here is an example of how this can be abused to both, load content from literally any IP, and create low quality lookalikes:
https://urlscan.io/result/019d1b3d-b94e-70f9-aae7-ecf5a02e3c89/

#dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #spam #scam

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SPAM email pretending to be from the company "Rate Kick" advertising cheap home insurance with a big red button saying "Save Now". Clicking anywhere on the email opens a new browser window with a unique URL using one of the host-names mentioned in the post.

Dear Spammers and Scammers over on Tumblr, I know exactly what you are trying to do when you start an unsoliticed message to me with "Hello, how are you doing". You are trying to get a conversation with me going.
Well, I am a neurodivergent person and I am not into small talk. So just tell my right away what you want (or offer), so that I can block you even faster. 😠

(Latest case was a guy who apparently is a paid beta reader. Not interested in that.)

#spam #scam #writingcommunity #Tumblr

So, hier nun meine versprochenen Infos, die ich nachreichen wollte:

In den frühen Morgenstunden bzw. heute Nacht wurden auf einer meiner Instanzen vier Accounts erstellt, auf der anderen Instanz ein Account. Da die Namen/Mailadressen mehr als auffällig waren, schaue ich mir die Logs an. Die Sichtung der Logs ergab, dass diese Registrierungen alle von der selben IP (siehe Bilder, ich schreibe die IP hier absichtlich nicht aus) kamen. Auf meiner dritten Instanz, die für Registrierungen gesperrt ist, wurde die Seite /register aufgerufen. Als man dort kein Registrierungsformular fand, war der Server wohl uninteressant.

Erste Maßnahme von mir war natürlich, die Accounts zu löschen und die IP zu sperren. So wie sich das für mich darstellt, wurde mit den vier Accounts erst einmal "angetestet", was möglich ist. Auf der zweiten Instanz wurde die Person/der Bot von mir unterbrochen und die IP gesperrt.

Wenn ich mir die Logs so anschaue, denke ich, dass hier "antrainiert" und getestet wird/wurde, wie man am besten und schnellsten neue Accounts erstellen kann. Möglich, dass hier "nur" SEO-Spam verbreitet werden soll. Evtl. aber auch Schläfer-Accounts, die irgendwann später mal agieren werden.

Nach der Erstellung der Accounts wurde innerhalb der nächsten Sekunde sofort das Profil bearbeitet (Ergebnis siehe Bilder). Danach erfolgten mehrere Curl-Abfragen der neu angelegten Profile, auch zwischendurch erfolgten curl-Abfragen. Ebenso wurde /api/v1/apps bzw. /api/v1/instance abgefragt.

Da ich mehrere Server habe, schaute ich nach, ob die IP auch auf anderen Servern zu finden ist. Ergebnis: Die IP hat nur Server besucht, auf denen Friendica installiert ist!

Weder die IPs, noch die Mailadressen tauchen auf Spam- oder Abuse-Listen auf. Auch Fail2Ban greift hier natürlich nicht wirklich, da zwischen einigen Registrierungen natürlich massig Zeit war. Natürlich kann man aber für so ein "Verhalten" einen Jail/Filter erstellen, klar. Aber auch hier gibt es dann natürlich wieder Möglichkeiten, diesen zu umgehen.

Ich kann nur jedem raten: Habt ein Auge auf die Registrierungen, in Friendica kann man auch die Anzahl der täglichen Registrierungen einstellen. Ebenso lässt sich in Friendica einstellen, dass die Registrierung nur noch mit Bestätigung möglich ist.

Anhang: 5 Bilder (Leider werden auf manchen Fediverse-Plattformen nur 4 Bilder angezeigt, dies ist kein Fehler, sondern eine gewollte Limitierung der Software, die deine Instanz verwendet 😉 )

Nun erstmal noch nen Kaffee... ☕

#Friendica, #FriendicaAdmins, #Spam, #Adminarbeit

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Liste von vier Benutzern mit E-Mail-Adressen, Anmeldedatum, letzter Anmeldung und letztem öffentlichen Beitrag in tabellarischer Form

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Detail-Ansicht eines Spam-Accounts, in dem der Name, Standort, eine Telefonnummer sowie eine Webseite eingetragen wurden.

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Detailansicht einer Spam-Accounts, zu sehen ist ein Handle mit mehreren aneinandergereihten Buchstaben und dem Fediverse-Handle.

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Eine IP, die einem Bot zuzuordnen ist.

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Ansicht eines E-Mail-Postfach mit mehreren E-Mails, die auf neue Registrierungen hinweisen.

LLM hallucinated spam slop

Even a parrot would formulate a better set of sentences. This is easily sent to /dev/null

#LLM #slop #AI #InfoSec #spam #unsolicited #email #dev #null

@stefano

Getting a novelty #spam #scam email like this makes my day.

On a catchall account, this arrived from "ChatGPT"
Of interest is the link on the yellow button to TruthSocial.com. Not sure if they're the target or the ultimate source. Neither know nor greatly care.

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From chatgpt <noreply@hihbaa-2bc5e firebaseapp.com> @ To reg@x0s.net © 12:28 pm Reply to no-reply@BIGPOND.COM @ Subject important message ( XO OpenAl A ALERT We are having trouble authorizing your payment for the item below. Please update ‘your payment method. If you need payment options, please contact our team for more details. ORDER DETAILS Order # 'ORD-2024-0078789 Order Date: 17/03/2026 Payment Status: Declined LEARN MORE ABOUT DECLINING PAYMENT Why Might a Payment Be Declined? Payment can be declined for several reasons. Common reasons include: « Insufficient funds in your account « Incorrect card or payment information « Card has expired or been blocked «+ Transaction exceeds your credit limit « Security verification required ©202 OpenAl. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Contact Support

„Ich solle unbedingt meine E-Mail-Adresse über den beigefügten Link verifizieren, weil ich sonst meine E-Mail-Adresse nicht mehr benutzen kann!!!“

Und dann brach ich in schallendes Gelächter aus, weil das schon seit Jahrzehnten meine eigene Domäne ist, ihr Luftpumpen.

#spam #spammail

hf.space is a hosting service for "AI Apps" and is currently being used to generate large amounts of #Spam on federated networks. The subdomain seen in use is ali525-q.hf.space - however, numerous spam activities are paused, running, or being stopped by HuggingFace and at this time we recommend suspending federation with the hf.space domain entirely.

ref: https://huggingface.co/ali525/spaces

to report the HF user see https://huggingface.co/content-policy

Gaza Spams
Gaming Spams
Verification Scams

Gleich alles zusammen, mehrfach und in den letzten 12h

Das Fediverse wird populär 🙄

#Spam #scam #Fediverse

Check your #SPAM folders folks, filtering is not perfect.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-teacher-pay-suspension-emails-9.7113444

Uh-huh, right.....

#spam

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A spam message I received a few minutes ago on this account. @ Mastodon Sent You Mess... @MonetizaionNotification@mst © 7m @peteorrall Important notification for your account Mastodon team has noticed your activity on our forum and we would like to offer you a partnership Partnering with us means that monetization will be enabled for your account To begin collaborating with our team please confirm that you are the owner of this account by following the link below Verify now: lyzo.ioficLJa IF you attempt to avoid verification our system will Freeze your account indefinitely Qo 2 o [A] es

Ich hatte gerade eben bei einer meiner Friendica-Instanzen eine Registrierung mit einer E-Mail-Adresse, die explizit für KI-Agenten gemacht ist.

Hinsichtlich der gestern plötzlich aufgetretenen Spam-Attacke würde ich empfehlen, euch die genutzten E-Mail-Adressen, die bei der Registrierung auf eurer Instanz angegeben werden, einmal genauer anzuschauen.

#Friendica, #FriendicaAdmins, #Fediverse, #Admins, #Spam, #Scam, #Bot, #Phising

@stefano What I love about #Mastodon is the #community. The #spam #scammers and #malicious actors are far and few between. There isn't an incentive to look elsewhere.

Of course, that also speaks *volumes* about instance owners and administrators. 😀

There's a new wave of spam - all around the Fediverse.

Please remember, there's no "Mastodon Moderation Team" sending out strange verification messages.

That's all spam.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #FediTips #Spam #CyberSecurity

There's a new wave of spam - all around the Fediverse.

Please remember, there's no "Mastodon Moderation Team" sending out strange verification messages.

That's all spam.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #FediTips #Spam #CyberSecurity

Leute passt auf, es ist schon wieder eine Scam Aktion am laufen.
Im Moment von mastodon.world

Fallt nicht auf den Scheiß von Verifikation rein

#Scam #Spam #Sicherheit

RE: https://mastodon.world/ap/users/116163283786197639/statuses/116163328609471169

Days since I had to report a major Canadian retailer to their marketing mail host for not honouring marketing communications preferences, sending non-working links for "manage your preferences" or "unsubscribe", having a non-working link in the List-Help: header of an unsolicited marketing email, and having a website that errors out when trying to use the "contact us" function:

0 (zero)

#ShoppersDrugMart #Shoppers #PCid #Loblaw #privacy #security #PIPEDA #spam #marketing #UCE

Small language models, paired with reinforcement learning and proper training, could significantly improve spam detection by focusing on the emotions an email is supposed to generate. For other fascinating (and horifying) uses of reinforcement learning, see the Forbes Tech Council.
#AI #reinforcementlearning #spam
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/02/24/where-reinforcement-learning-plus-human-oversight-works-best/

Neuer Spammer.
Nicht klicken! Melden und blocken!
#Spam

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Profil von helper

Friends, is this https://nxdomain.no/~peter/20260224_smtp_blast_to_imaginary_friends.txt what a successful campaign looks like?

(also see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html or for that matter https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4e) @nostarch #greyptrapping #spam #spamd #pf #packetfilter #greylisting #email #cybercrime #marketing #scams

Speaking of #spam, when something signs me up in their mailing list, calling the option "I don't recall signing up for these emails" is such a bullshit option.

I do not just "not recall" signing up, I ABSOLUTELY DID NOT. How do I know? I don't just use an old e-mail alias an be like "Today I'll use this address to order myself some yammy spam!"

Fuck you, spammers.

In case you're wondering about the strong reaction, I've had two positions in my life where I've watched after corporate e-mail servers and spam was always the headache, one way or another. At times it was also a case of PEBCAK, which added the annoying user aspect to it.

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Screenshot of a mailing list subscription page. It reads: You have been unsubscribed, Sorry to see you leave If you have a moment, please let us know why you unsubscribed: - I'm no longer interested in receiving these emails - I don't recall signing up for these emails - I receive these emails too frequently - The content of these emails feels irrelevant to me - These emails seem too promotional

Amazing just how literally everything is out to sell your e-mail address to spammers. When I was active in pinball tournament scene, I had an alias address for registering to tournaments. That address is now getting hit hard by all kinds of junk from arcade openings to arcade-related stuff being sold by dropshippers. All this from using the address in tournament sign-ups.

There's also been couple of cases, where a tournament director doesn't understand what CC and BCC do in e-mail and all the sudden I see all the 200 people's e-mails, some from people who probably didn't mean theirs to be in the public.

I can only imagine how bad it is for people who put their address in every possible Send me more spam! mailing list out there.

At least I can retire that alias, people using their actual, well known addresses won't be so lucky.

#spam

When you see antisemitic bots like this that spam replies to posts criticising Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, make sure you report and block them.

(They block you after commenting so you can’t act on their post. Unless, that is, you run your own instance like I do and can suspend them.)

But wait, did I just call them antisemitic?

Why yes, conflating Zionism with being Jewish is to state that all Jews support Israel, settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Of course not all Jews are Zionist and support such inhumanity. And not all Zionists are Jews.

The only ones painting targets on Jewish backs are Zionists.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #fediblock #fediverse #mastodon #zionist #bots #hasbara #spam

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ANTIZIONISTS USE THE GENOCIDE LIBEL TO PAINT TARGETS ON JEWISH BACKS SO DON'T LET THEM. CALL THEM OUT. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

⚠️ SW-ISAC Advisory

The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS Abandoned/Unmanaged List:

pol.social
social.roadfm.fr

The following domains are being escalated to the watchlist:

social.5th.ro
tty0.social

https://about.iftas.org/library/iftas-abandoned-and-unmanaged-domain-list/

#SW_ISAC_ADVISORY #Spam #CIB

I use #Google Messages for #texting. It's not bad but its only solid features are the #spam blocking and the fact I can use it in a web browser. Oh, and #RCS (as questionable as that may be).

I'd really like to move away from it because, well....Google, but I haven't found a suitable replacement - either on Google Play or F-Droid.

Most #SMS apps are rather bare bones when it comes to features. I am looking for something better.

I am on my second try for Messages on F-Droid but it once again never finishes syncing messages. I deleted over 60 large old conversations and still it gets to about 2/3 done before restarting. I let it run overnight and it never finished.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.prauga.messages

Any recommendations?

🏇 Sports and gambling are long time partners, and the 2026 Winter Olympics is no exception. 🥇 🏂

In recent years, higher adoption of digital payment methods, cheaper mobile internet, and legalization in more jurisdictions have rapidly expanded online gambling. Industry forecasts put the market at about USD 153 billion by 2030. Although more regions have moved from bans to regulated licensing, it hasn't eliminated illicit activities. There are many providers that are unlicensed, use offshore operators, and have been implicated in unlawful practices. One of the most prominent and controversial platforms is 1XBET, which offers betting on football, esports, and even weather events. Numerous investigative groups have questioned the legitimacy of 1XBET, and many users associate it with scams.

Last week, we observed a 1XBET email spam campaign targeting Burmese internet users. Emails were sent from mailer[@]1xbet[.]com via Melbicom SMTP servers (AS 56630) with the subject ❄️ 1xBet ရဲ့ Winter Olympics မှာ ပါဝင်ပြီး Legend တစ်ယောက် ဖြစ်လာလိုက်ပါ။. They also targeted the same audience through their Facebook account at https://www.facebook.com/mmsportsnet/.

Although online gambling is technically illegal in Myanmar, 1XBET continues to reach users through numerous mirror sites that can be quickly replaced when blocked. They also apply geo‑gating for additional protection. Our initial access attempt to 1xlite-03801[.]world was blocked, but switching to a South Asian endpoint allowed us to reach content at 1xlite-17342[.]bar.

Below is a subset of domains we have attributed to 1XBET and the associated spam campaign.

Mirror site domains:
10x-bet[.]org,10xbet[.]icu,11xslp[.]top,14xsl[.]top,1ex-bet[.]net,1x-bat[.]net,1x-vet[.]com,1xbat[.]xyz,1xbatdownload[.]com,1xbate[.]com,1xbeat[.]net,1xbed[.]net,1xbeet[.]icu,1xbetdemoaccount[.]com,1xbetslipcheck[.]com,1xbettingapp[.]com,1xbey[.]net,1xbst[.]org,1xbwt[.]org,1xdet[.]net,1xlk-chickenroad[.]com,1xslopi[.]top,1z-bet[.]com,2xslops[.]top,3xslo[.]top,42sport[.]ph,4xslo[.]top,5xslops[.]top,6xslops[.]top

Geo-gate / Landing page domains:
1xlite-03801[.]world,1xlite-048726[.]top,1xlite-107192[.]top,1xlite-17342[.]bar

#dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #sportsbetting #onlinegambling #gambling #betting #myanmar #winterolympics #olympics #spam

"The Rest Is Trash"

We are now halfway through the nineteenth year of greytrapping, still tracking and collecting from the wealth of imbecility out there

https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html) #spamd #greytrapping #greylisting #openbsd #freebsd #spam #antispam #cybercrime

⚠️ SW-ISAC Advisory

The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS Abandoned/Unmanaged List:

m.pupu.moe
social.sengeis.priv.at

https://about.iftas.org/library/iftas-abandoned-and-unmanaged-domain-list/

#SW_ISAC_ADVISORY #Disinformation #CIB #Spam

⚠️ SCAM WARNING ⚠️

We’re getting blasted by a bot-driven barrage of accounts requesting Palestine aid.

These are the avatars being used, and account names look like this:

Mahmoud│⟪Hear Our Cries⟫
Mahmoud│⟪Feed Our Hunger⟫
Mahmoud│⟪Dry Our Tears⟫

The person in the photo may be real, but the accounts are not. They use signature spam methods.

Report, block, and DO NOT give money. Many already have. This is theft from real Palestinians.

#Scam #Spam #Alert #Mastodon #Palestine #Gaza

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Collage of four avatars, each showing the same person of Middle-Eastern ethnicity. Three are selfies: one in a refugee camp with a tent behind him, and two holding small children. The fourth shows him inside holding a baby.

Follow-up note…

There are lots of legitimate accounts on Mastodon that are seeking aid for Palestinians. This warning does NOT imply that they’re all scams. I am only warning about this one particular pattern.

Use your judgment about any mutual aid account. Please only heed my warning specifically about this particular pattern of accounts. The names/avatars here are the flags you should look for.

Give aid to legitimate folks who need it. 🙌🏻

#Scam #Spam #Alert #Mastodon #Palestine #Gaza

Rechtsanwaltskanzlei (!) aus Stuttgart schickt mir schon zum zweiten Mal unbestellt eine E-Mail mit einem PDF im Anhang. Eine Preisliste zu Liquidationsartikeln. Meine Anfrage, ob sie für die Aussendung verantwortlich sind (Absender ist nicht ihre eigentliche Mailadresse, aber die ist in der Mail genannt), woher sie die Daten haben usw., beantworten sie mit „Ist Ihr Leben wirklich so langweilig..“

OK, dann muß es halt der zuständige Datenschutzbeauftragte sein. Nein, mein Leben ist eigentlich nicht langweilig, Herr Rechtsanwalt. Aber Ihres wird bald spannend.

#Spam #Datenschutz

Yeah, I'm definitely going to connect with this guy. Excellent invitation to connect, no notes. /s
#AI #slop #AISlop #spam #LinkedIn #IBM

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Screenshot of LinkedIn connection invitation from "Campbell Robertson / Making AI Real for SMBs / IBM" which begins, "Hi %first_name%, I saw your work at %company%"

Die Gaza-Verified follow spams interessiert die Rieseninstanz nicht wirklich, oder?

#spam #mastoadmin

#Neuland #Podcast - Neues aus dem Internetz: Neuland Finale 2025 und Ausblick auf 2026 - #Linux auf dem Vormarsch & nervige KI-Contentfarmen

In dieser Neuland-Ausgabe erfahrt ihr:
✅ Warum #LinuxGaming plötzlich ernsthaft konkurrenzfähig ist
✅ Wie #Windows UX-Chaos & #Werbung User vergrault
✅ Warum #ARM, #Handhelds & #Steam den Trend pushen
✅ Wie KI-#Spam & Content-Farmen das Netz fluten
✅ Warum #Google entscheiden muss, was Reichweite bekommt
✅ Wieso #Nextcloud & europäische Clouds an Bedeutung gewinnen
✅ Wie sich #Creator-Ökonomie & Wertschöpfung verändern
✅ Und weshalb 2026 das entscheidende Tech-Kipppunkt-Jahr wird.

Webseite der Episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/77812e7d

Mediendatei: https://media.transistor.fm/77812e7d/1541d955.mp3

@pallenberg

I wish I knew which fake #bitcoin Exchange #Kitboga uses, cuz I'd rather try to make those #spammers suffer in it.

• But obviously, the first rule of #Spam is: NEVER REPLY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgxdAaCwKMg

I find it funny how many shitty #Spam #eMails try to #blackmail the recipient.

Personally, the only recommendes step is to delete them unread and completely ignore them.

• Cuz any #blackmailer would know that without #evidence they can't really blackmail anyone!

Plus they don't even personalize messages.

Still, as they all ask for #Shitcoins like #Bitcoin, I just have a collection I got over the years on multiple occasions so #AntiFraud professionals & #Investigators can take a closer look and flag the Addresses for further analysis.

There’s a rash of #scam #spam coming from a real #Microsoft address

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/theres-a-rash-of-scam-spam-coming-from-a-real-microsoft-address/

#phishing #cybersecurity

I have a specific email address I only use to sign up for newsletters & blogs.

I've just had my first ever spam email on that address.
Within hours of signing up to the EURAO amateur radio newsletter - coincidence?

#amateurradio #EURAO #spam

I wonder whether they also believe in the tooth fairy:

Jan 25 07:48:32 skapet spamd[52525]: (GREY) 111.68.23.116: <> -> <delivery9.nospamcloud.com-1769323698-testing@bsdly.net>
Jan 25 07:48:32 skapet spamd[43842]: new entry 111.68.23.116 from <> to <delivery9.nospamcloud.com-1769323698-testing@bsdly.net>, helo delivery9.nospamcloud.com

Yes, it's a fresh one, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/twenty-plus_years_on_smtp_callbacks_are_still_pointless.html #smtpcallbacks #antispam #counterproductive #spam #cybercrime

If you use #GMAIL, you should be aware that as of this post's timestamp, their spam detection is down and it is likely your emails aren't being scanned for spam, unverified senders, or harmful software.

"We advise the users to be extra diligent in lieu of missing spam checks." #Spam #Google

Google Status:
https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/NNnDkY9CJ36annsfytjQ

#spam #phishing #scam

This shit gets fucking old.

#Norton #garbage #spam #video #malware #virus

@WooShell itbdies: Having #HTML embedded that itbreloads, it verifies the reciever email address not only exists but there's a user to #spam!

@ustralien Obviously, #widthdrawals in the form of #subscription are the main leverage here and many if not all sites operate on 4 pillars to keep revenue incoming.

• It's easier to subscribe than unsubscribe. It takes more clicks or they try to prevent people aggressively from cancelling by not allowing cancellations as easy as subscriptions.
• Platforms don't just accept "no" and instead push for either 'returning customer spechal offers' or "pausing" a subscription at most.
• Most platforms incentivize people into "forgetting" that they still pay for a service they don't use. Compared to Services that are pay-as-ypu-go / pay-per-use they won't send #Spam to incentivize people to "retry" their service or buy something again.
• Add to that all the emotional manipulation and guilt tripping they can get away with legally.

Making "onboarding easy - offboarding painful, frustrating and hard" is something sites literally pay for!

The latest "Lazy reading" by Dragonfly Digest @dragonflydigest https://www.dragonflydigest.com/ has "Eighteen years of Greytrapping" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html featured. Later this year it will be nineteen years :) (and updates will come) #spamd #spam #openbsd #antispam #greytrapping #greylisting #cybercrime

Es gibt eine neue Spam-Welle 😌 Sucht am besten nach dem Usernamen @Archive_Shinzai.

#mastoadmin #spam

I am not an #ANZ customer so beware of this #scam. #phishing #spam #Aotearoa #NZ

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Email reading: Invitation for Identity Verification Kia ora JACK YAN, Using a smart phone or mobile device, please continue to eVerify below to complete your identity verification, alternatively you can use this URL For more information, see anz.co.nz/eVerify Continue to eVerify From the team at ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited.

Fairphone is really losing points with me right now. I received an email with a survey from bazaarvoice-cgc.com, which was actually commissioned by Fairphone to conduct these surveys via email. On their website, they even lie to your face:

"Is Bazaarvoice spam?
This email from Bazaarvoice is not spam or a phishing attempt; it is a genuine request to share your experience with the product you purchased with Fairphone."

Go to hell and rot in my blacklist.

#fairphone #spam

A Major Mail Provider Demonstrate They Likely Do Not Understand Mail At All https://nxdomain.no/~peter/they_do_not_understand_mail_at_all.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-major-mail-provider-demonstrate-they.html)

#greytrapping #spam, #antispam #greylisting #blocklist, #openbsd #freebsd #smtp #email #SMTP, #contentfiltering #SPF #DMARC #security #networking

Asshole #AI company #ZenCoder continues to spam people even after being asked to stop, while falsely claiming that they've opted in to receiving the emails. I'm getting pretty salty in my responses at this point.
#spam

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Screenshot of email from Zencoder. The header and footer of the email are in the screenshot. The footer says, "You are receiving this email at [blurred] because you have opted‑in for emails on 1747227604559. If you have any questions, contact us at contact@zencoder.ai"

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Screenshot of reply from me to contact@zencoder.ai. It says: "Hello, spamming assholes! You have, multiple times now, sent me spam emails falsely claiming that I opted in to receiving them. This is, and has always been, a lie. You are liars. I have asked you multiple times to fucking stop spamming me. You obviously have not. Given this, if you think there is any chance in hell that I would ever in a million trillion years consider using any of your products for anything, you are sorely mistaken. Leave me the fuck alone. Thank you, Jonathan Kamens (whom you're spamming at [blurred])"

⚠️ SW-ISAC Advisory

The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS Abandoned/Unmanaged List

channels dot im

https://about.iftas.org/library/iftas-abandoned-and-unmanaged-domain-list/

#SW_ISAC_ADVISORY #Spam

@nixCraft I consider all "#AI" output #malicious until priven otherwise and all #AIslop as #Spam!

Heh. Looks like the tracked version of Why 451 is Good for You - Greylisting Perspectives From the Early Noughties https://nxdomain.no/~peter/why_451_is_good.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/12/why-451-is-good-for-you-greylisting.html) hit hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414653

No, I willl not respond to those comments either :D

#greylisting #greytrapping #spam #spamtrapping #antispam #spamd #openbsd #smtp

The update you have been waiting for:

"Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

now has the complete 2025 data in place. #openbsd #spamd #greytrapping #spam #antispam #cybercrime #spamtraps #blocklists

@jrenken
Holy shit, that's a new spam scam on me.

A spammer promising me buy once, own forever software tools!

"Hello - Standard SaaS pricing sits at 99-299 each month. Imagine paying once and keeping them permanently."

#spam #scam

⚠️ SW-ISAC Advisory

The account "oscarolg" continues to proliferate across federated services, with over 50 accounts observed today

#SW_ISAC_ADVISORY #Spam #CIB

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a view of many "oscarolg" profiles listed

Why 451 is Good for You - Greylisting Perspectives From the Early Noughties https://nxdomain.no/~peter/why_451_is_good.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/12/why-451-is-good-for-you-greylisting.html) @nostarch #greytrapping #greylisting #smtp #email #spam #antispam #bookofpf

LinkedIn's 2025 Data Crisis: 4.3 Billion Records Leaked, Risks Rise https://www.webpronews.com/linkedins-2025-data-crisis-4-3-billion-records-leaked-risks-rise/ #cybersecurity #LinkedIn #DataTheft #scams #spam #DataScraping

For anyone curious: I am currently scraping my #SPAM folder clean and I am curious how many people are stupid enough to believe the shitty #blackmail #spam #eMails demanding ransom for something that doesn't exist.

• Which is really funny as they threaten to "leak nudes" or some other bs that cannot exist as I don't even have a #Webcam in my system to begin with!

Obviously I'd not pay any ransom as a matter of principle!

• I'm more of a "I told you I'd find you!" kinda guy (minus the violence OFC)!

new spam comment format: telling an AI to write up a long paranoid conspiracy theory comment about the post, adding the ad and links down at the bottom.

when this is about a bike map, it is _utterly_ hilarious

didn't stop me from deleting it from the spam queue but

#spam #BikeMap

Mail-Spamschleuder des Monats ist hier eindeutig die IP-Range 89.32.41.0/24.

#Spam

I'm not sure how Layla and May001 snuck past SpamAssassin but the assassin is being re-trained.

#spam #JunkMail #SpamAssassin #email

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Screen capture of a list of spam emails. Most have SpamAssassin's "*****SPAM*****" subject followed by either "Let's start getting to know each other." or some academic-spam title about editorial boards or journals.

@marcel @cryptoparty @zalintyre ja, und juristisch wäre das was was ich nicht ohne fachanwaltliche Rücksprache versuchen würde.

Ich bin ja eher für automatisiertes Reporting:

• Für jede #SPAM-mail geht mit 1 Klick automatisch ne Abuse-Meldung an #Hoster, #Registrar, #TLD-Registry und #Upstreams des #Hosters heraus!

Und in der Zwischenzeit werden die Hoster automatisch blocklisted!

@iwritelike Wow. It's SO good that you have to spam social media hashtags! Blocked. #spam

Immer mehr Mastodon Instanzen treten plötzlich aus dem osteuropäischen Raum hervor, die einfach nur als Verbreiter von kommerziellem Müll von irgendwelchen WordPress Seiten dienen, gepaart mit Free Speech Anspruch ohne Moderation. Diese Instanzen versuchen, auf weiteren kleineren Instanzen zusätzliche Bot oder Plugin Accounts zu erstellen, um so ihren Müll noch besser und schneller verbreiten zu können.
Wer macht in diesen Tagen ähnliche Erfahrungen?

#bots #mastodon #instanz #spam #werbung

I turned off "smart features" (aka #AI) in my gmail account. Doing that means instead of parsing the inbox into Primary, Social, and Promotions, it's now all one big inbox.

Now, I spend time each day Unsubscribing from email lists I'm on. Also unsubscribing to most substacks.

I had no idea how bad it was, as I generally avoided the Social and Promotions folders. There's a lot of junk email in this world, and I seem to have opted into most of it.

#gmail #email #TakeBackYourInbox #spam

#spam #scam

#Spam Watch 2025: The hidden trackers and inbox overload behind holiday marketing

https://proton.me/blog/spam-watch-2025

#privacy #email #holidays #GiftGiving #OnlineShopping #eCommerce

(I'm not asking for advice about dealing with spam. SpamAssassin has this one well in hand. I'm just curious if anyone else has been seeing spam like this).

#spam #email #AskFedi

Just got push notification on my #Gnome desktop to donate to the project..... Very (NOT!) user friendly @gnome , I do wonder what is next... Ads? AI? 💔

#gnome #spam #notification

I gather they've finally taken this measure because of the preponderance AI-generated slop, but with any luck these other issues will improve too. The arXiv press release states “Review/survey articles or position papers submitted to arXiv without this documentation will be likely to be rejected and not appear on arXiv” so it does sound like they are acknowledging the other problems and intend to enforce their rules more strictly in the future.

"arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received."
From https://infosec.exchange/users/josephcox/statuses/115486903712973154

#arXiv #preprint #CS #spam #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI

#Google #GoogleClassroom #Gmail #spam #MonopolistsDontInnovate

This post is not an invitation to scold me for using Google products or to suggest alternatives. It is also not a request for technical support.