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		<title>1000 comment spams!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 04:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog comment spammers are just as vile and useless as e-mail spammers. If you run a blog you know them well. You may know of them even if you only read a couple of blogs. Comment spammers post completely unrelated, random, and often nonsensical comments to blogs all over the Internet. Their drivel always contains [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=369&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When not to unsubscribe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you spend much time on-line, you probably get a lot of e-mail. You may have signed up for mailing lists, you might get e-mail from web sites because of previous orders, and if you&#8217;re reading this blog, you probably get spam. People often ask me, &#8220;how can I get the spammers to remove me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=363&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Security questions can be harmful</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/security-questions-can-be-harmful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many web sites, especially financial web sites, ask you to answer security questions so that they have an alternative method of identifying you in case you forget your password or no longer identify correctly by whatever method they use. In principle, this provides another way of asking you something that only you should know (and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=357&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skepticism is your friend (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/skepticism-is-your-friend-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wire transfer of money has always been a favorite tool of scammers. A wire transfer guarantees the money arrives, that&#8217;s all. It does not guarantee anything about the sender or the recipient. People who don&#8217;t know each other conduct business with checks and credit cards for the accountability. Friends and family in remote locations sometimes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=351&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skepticism is your friend (part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, a virus got into some military sites via USB thumb drives. The military&#8217;s solution was to fill all USB ports in their computers with glue.  While admittedly effective for this specific problem, this is the wrong solution.  The USB stick is just a symptom, not the root cause of the problem.  Although [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=349&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You cannot get a new SSN</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Playing on fear is a fundamental tactic used by criminal spammers. Now that so many have fallen for their early scams, like identity theft, they are using the fear that has created to push people into falling for new scams (much like the Nigerian spammers who claim they can help you reclaim funds lost in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=324&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HTML e-mail is evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 05:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I&#8217;ll admit the title was only meant to catch your eye. I do not believe that HTML itself is evil, or even that using it in e-mail is evil. But because of the way e-mail has evolved over the years, it now often contains HTML, and this opens it up to all the security [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=312&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fake messages from Twitter</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/fake-messages-from-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was, of course, inevitable, but today I received my first Twitter impersonation spam. The headers were as follows: From cwong@lacbon.com  Wed Apr 21 05:28:42 2010 Received: from localhost ([205.209.97.173])         by smtp.xyzzyisp.com (8.14.2/8.14.3) with SMTP id o3LCSftd029838 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:57:28 +0100 From: &#8220;Twitter Support&#8221; &#60;support@twitter.com&#62; Subject: Twitter 018-824 The message was HTML code [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=302&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of warnings</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/beware-of-warnings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I received a spam message trying to make me open a file containing malware. It&#8217;s an old trick, but this one is cleaner and more generic than past attempts, so it might actually fool some people: From: &#8220;xyzzyisp.com support&#8221; &#60;username@xyzzyisp.com&#62; To: &#60;username@xyzzyisp.com&#62; Subject: xyzzyisp.com account notification Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:22:12 -0400 Dear Customer, This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=296&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The dangers of public wifi</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/the-dangers-of-public-wifi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently returned from the UK via a flight through George Bush International Airport (formerly, and to many of us, better, known as Houston Intercontinental Airport, hence the abbreviation IAH). During my wait for my connecting flight, I opened my laptop to see what kind of wifi signals I could find. I found four distinct [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=282&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to determine the true source of an e-mail message</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/how-to-determine-the-true-source-of-an-e-mail-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve seen many examples of &#8220;social engineering,&#8221; tricks spammers play to try to make you curious enough to open an e-mail message. A big secret to avoiding scams is to simply spot these ploys and not fall for them. And this is easy when it&#8217;s a phishing message masquerading as, for example, PayPal but you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=269&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advertising a spamming business&#8230; WITH SPAM!</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/advertising-a-spamming-business-with-spam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, the irony: Business Managers, Owners and Sales Teams, We can now offer you access to 200 Million Consumers &#38; 45 Million Businesses Via E-mail! We are able to target these databases by geography and 25K+ demographic criteria&#8217;s.  With these databases and access to our dedicated mailing servers, you will be able to drive a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=265&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>you need to check your Bank Deposit Insurance Coverage</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/you-need-to-check-your-bank-deposit-insurance-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those living in the US, bank deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) up to $100,000 for each account. This is in case the bank fails, as has happened recently. This was instituted after the bank failures of 1929 and the 1930s to protect depositors and prevent the runs on banks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=251&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>vk.com &#8211; free mp3 , FREE Registration !</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/vk-com-free-mp3-free-registration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what these guys are up to, but you can bet it&#8217;s no good: Received: from dynamic.rabat2-17-236-12-196.wanamaroc.com (dynamic.rabat2-17-236-12-196.wanamaroc.com [196.12.236.17]) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:32:27 +0000 From: Orval Macias &#60;uxupu@yandex.ru&#62; Reply-To: Mari Kincaid &#60;uxupu@yandex.ru&#62; Subject: vk.com &#8211; free mp3 , FREE Registration ! http://vk.com/reg98765432 &#8211; FREE Register ! Most of you probably familiar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=238&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho is the spam capital of the US. But so what?</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/idaho-is-the-spam-capital-of-the-us-but-so-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Symantec MessageLabs has created quite a stir with their latest reports on spam rates in the US and around the world. Spam blogs like this, this, and this have all talked about it. But nobody, including MessageLabs, can seem to make any sense out of the numbers. Why would people in Idaho get more spam [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=234&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of &#8220;patches&#8221; from Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/beware-of-patches-from-microsoft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is NOT legitimate e-mail from Microsoft: Received: from 132.pool85-50-158.dynamic.orange.es (132.pool85-50-158.dynamic.orange.es [85.50.158.132]) Received: from dns99.microsoft.com(dns.microsoft.com [85.50.158.132]) by 85.50.158.132 with SMTP id 98669122; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:47:49 +0800 Message-ID: &#60;01ca4085$52de11d6$849e3255@smtp.microsoft.com&#62; X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:47:49 +0800 From: &#8220;Microsoft Security&#8221; &#60;cjdc67-update@microsoft.com&#62; Subject: Get the latest updates available for your computer&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=230&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you for ordering at our on-line store</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/thank-you-for-ordering-at-our-on-line-store/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spammers try to be vague enough that you might believe the message is legitimate. When the message tries to tempt you with a problem regarding a package you shipped but you haven&#8217;t shipped one, you&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s fake. If they warn you of a security breach on your bank card from a bank you don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=223&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Better pay sleeping?</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/better-pay-sleeping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really hope this one isn&#8217;t even necessary to post, but I can&#8217;t resist because it&#8217;s just so ridiculous: Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:41:49 -0400 From: &#8220;BetterPaySleeping&#8221; &#60;news@shakingexpos.com&#62; Subject: In one evening while dozing, exceed the pay some get in 1-month. This evening, in front of you is the the once-in-a-lifetime chance to see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=213&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get a fake mystery shopper job</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/get-a-fake-mystery-shopper-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now the fake jobs spammers are back. I&#8217;ve mentioned Mystery Shoppers before, but this one is worth looking at in detail. In just the past couple of days I&#8217;ve received over 20 (!) of these: Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 01:04:30 -0700 Subject: Position Opening / 115-367 $ per day Our company(US Surveys) is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=208&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Started Making $7,500 a Month Working An Online Part-Time Job from Home</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/how-i-started-making-7500-a-month-working-an-online-part-time-job-from-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The guys who brought us Is Working Online At Home The Next Gold Rush? are back pushing another scam. Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:15:55 GMT From: Ellen &#60;EllenWall38@speakeasy.com&#62; Subject: Online News Article Someone wants to share this news article with you: http://Google-Paycheck6.com User Comment: Thought you might be interested in this Source: The Business News [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=195&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UPS cannot deliver your package</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/ups-cannot-delivery-your-package/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proving the scammers just try the same old scams over and over, let&#8217;s look at one that has resurfaced lately, the good old &#8220;UPS couldn&#8217;t send your package&#8221; scam: From bertieuk314@skytouch.de Mon Aug 17 19:54:50 2009 From: &#8220;Jeannette Davenport&#8221; &#60;bertieuk314@skytouch.de&#62; Subject: UPS Tracking Number KX9S7MF Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:53:40 -0300 Hello! We were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=184&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Design International Agency</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/design-international-agency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of beating a dead horse, there is a new fake job scam going around and I&#8217;ve gotten it no less than 6 times in a few days, so I thought it would be a good example to dissect. They all look about the same: From: &#8220;Josefina Stout&#8221; &#60;0-ni@hartfordlife.com&#62; Subject: More freelancer working [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=133&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scare tactics</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/scare-tactics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent new wrinkle in the ongoing assault from Internet evil-doers is now commonly referred to as scareware. It typically takes the form of a pop-up window in your browser that claims to have found some problem that you need to fix immediately (and of course, they have the answer for you!). This is related [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=125&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to on-line scams</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/introduction-to-on-line-scams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want to get into the habit of merely indexing other articles about spam and scams, but when I see especially good ones, I will pass them along. Yesterday there were, coincidentally, two good overview articles about on-line scams that are worth the read if you don&#8217;t feel like an expert. In the New York [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=116&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No such thing as a free diploma</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/no-such-thing-as-a-free-diploma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suspect the number of people who would really fall for this is small, but the volume of spam I&#8217;ve been receiving lately is so high, I can&#8217;t resist highlighting the fake diploma scammers. Of course, there is no such thing as education or qualification without work. You cannot get any kind of real diploma [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=111&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gone phishing</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/gone-phishing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realize that with the volume of new domains requested every day (many by spammers, however), that domain registrars must automate the process of registration. But this automation leads to spammers being able to register any name they want, even those that a human would recognize they should not be able to register. This leads [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=106&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual receptionist spam</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/virtual-receptionist-spam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fun one that exhibits many different spam traits, so while it looks legit, it is clearly some kind of scam: Received: from 6028DE54 ([122.141.87.8])         by my.server.com (8.14.2/8.14.3) with SMTP id n6LG2uMY031795         for &#60;me@my.server.com&#62;; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:03:00 -0700 Received: from  by ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:03:54 -0600 Message-ID: &#60;@&#62; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=102&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t win a lottery you didn&#8217;t enter</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/you-cant-win-a-lottery-you-didnt-enter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appealing to the human desire to get something for nothing, scammers often go overboard. The 419 Nigerian scam, where some exiled leader of a country wants to share part of his $100 million with you if you&#8217;ll just help him move it is a good example. Winning lotteries you&#8217;ve never heard of (because they don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=99&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t take that job</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/dont-take-that-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the downturn in the economy, people lose their jobs and those already looking get more anxious. Scammers know this and they prey on it. Now that job seekers use on-line tools to look for work, they are perfect targets for criminals. So when you get a message like this, all sorts of alarms should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=95&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity-driven malware attacks</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/celebrity-driven-malware-attacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I have not yet received one of these, I read that a new ploy to fool people into watching an alleged video of ESPN personality Erin Andrews is making the rounds. This is nothing more than a new version of the classic attempt to fool the user into downloading malware of some type. But it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=90&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The return of the eBay phish</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/84/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears the eBay scammers are back. Yesterday I received many copies of the old &#8220;you&#8217;d better confirm your information or bad things will happen!!&#8221; scam: From: &#8220;eBay&#8221; &#60;alerts@ebay.com&#62; Subject: Security measures [message id: 5211089321] Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:36:54 +0100 eBay sent this message to xx@yy.com. Your registered e-mail is included to show this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=84&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>URL shortener protect-links.com</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/url-shortener-protect-links-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the heels of my rant on URL shorteners comes what may be the next step in the spammer arsenal: URL shorteners run by spammers. Today I received this lovely: Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:04:42 -0700 From: beholden1980@fukugyou.net Subject: To user &#60;html&#62; &#60;head&#62; &#60;meta http-equiv=&#8221;Content-Type&#8221; content=&#8221;text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1&#8243;&#62; &#60;/head&#62; &#60;center&#62;&#60;a href=&#8221;http://protect-links.com/1fd7c3&#8243; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;&#62;It is high time for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=77&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>URL shortners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I despise URL shorteners. You know, those sites like tinyurl.com where you can submit a horribly long URL and get back a nice, neat, compact short one to post to your twitter page or send in an e-mail message. It isn&#8217;t that these services are bad, it&#8217;s that people are lazy and overuse them. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=72&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your internet access is going to get suspended</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-internet-access-is-going-to-get-suspended/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t you just hate when somebody tries to scare you? From: &#8220;Shirley Hamm&#8221; &#60;sojournedq@royalfoam.com&#62; Subject: Your internet access is going to get suspended Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:03:28 +0530 Your internet access is going to get suspended We are aware of your illegal activities on the internet wich were originating from You can check [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=69&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old friends you never knew you had</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/old-friends-you-never-knew-you-had/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes our need to be loved gets the better of us. Take, for example, this spam: Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:56:20 +0200 From: &#8220;Aurora Lockett&#8221; &#60;wumhe@msn.com&#62; Subject: Wanna meet? Hello, I&#8217;m your ex-schoolmates and we used to have our lunch together. Hope you still remember me. Hope can hear from you soon and pls [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=65&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Working Online At Home The Next Gold Rush?</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/is-working-online-at-home-the-next-gold-rush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In just the last 24 hours, I have received more than a dozen spams like this: Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:06:54 GMT From: Betty &#60;BettyCurtis27@{$FROMDOMAIN$}&#62; Message-ID: &#60;4A48680E.1020564@{$FROMDOMAIN$}&#62; Subject: Interesting news Recent layoff? Paycut? No luck in finding a new job? The Internet knows of no &#8220;Economic Recession&#8221; $1500 daily is easily attainable. PROOF: http://is.gd/1xx7x [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=52&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some messages just make no sense</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/some-messages-just-make-no-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you often get messages that look professional and reasonable yet something about them is still completely inappropriate? Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:09:32 +0600 From: info@alchemytranslations.co.cc Message-ID: &#60;4996889790.41987784799278@starlink.ru&#62; Subject: translations services, offer of collaboration Dear Sir or Madame: I recently discovered your company on the Internet while establishing other business relations. I would be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=48&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>e-mail from yourself</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/e-mail-from-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get anywhere between 100 and 500 spams EVERY DAY depending on the phase of the moon, the desperation of a particular spam gang, or a random shutdown of a spam-supporting ISP. I have developed some very effective tools over the years that filter almost all of it, but I do look at them in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=40&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>e-mail containing a .zip attachment</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/e-mail-containing-a-zip-attachment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another one that may not be as obvious: From brahmans29@st-matthews.co.uk Mon Jun 22 10:56:46 2009 From: &#8220;Denise Stover&#8221; &#60;brahmans29@st-matthews.co.uk&#62; Subject: Worldpay CARD transaction Confirmation Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:55:33 -0600 Thank you! Your transaction has been processed by WorldPay, on behalf of Amazon Inc. The invoice file is attached to this message. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=33&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>e-mail links to .exe files</title>
		<link>http://nofoolin.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/e-mail-links-to-exe-files/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s begin with one that hopefully is obvious to anybody: Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:51:34 -0300 From: &#8220;Hester Carlton&#8221; &#60;superlatively4@sassan.de&#62; Subject: You have received an Greeting eCard Good day. You have received an eCard To pick up your eCard, choose from any of the following options: Click on the following link (or copy &#38; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nofoolin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4228705&amp;post=8&amp;subd=nofoolin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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