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

Words Commonly Found in Spam Domains

In a previous post, Interisle looked at the practice of embedding brand strings in domain names used for phishing and spam. Today, we’ll provide a summary of words that we most often find in domains used to spam.'

#spam #domain #dns #deception

https://interisle.substack.com/p/words-commonly-found-in-spam-domains

How Common are Brand strings in Spam and Phishing Domain Composition?

Embedding the exact string of a brand into a domain name is also a known behavior of cybercriminals.

Today, we’ll look at some current and recent past data to answer, “how common is this in spam? In phishing?”

https://interisle.substack.com/p/how-common-are-brand-strings-in-spam

#spam #phishing #dns

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

Do Criminals “age” Domains?

It’s widely understood that criminals most often acquire domains through direct registration, use them shortly after acquisition, and repeat this process when they begin their next campaign(s). We call these malicious domain registrations.

It’s also been observed that some criminals acquired domain names months, even years before they were used in a campaign – through domain hijacking, by registering neglected domains, or registering and storing domains before using them – reasoning that old domains might evade detection systems that used domain age as a trust indicator.

Today, we’ll look at data that we recently ingested at our Cybercrime Information Center to understand which of these conventional wisdoms hold water.

https://interisle.substack.com/p/do-criminals-age-domains

#phishing #spam #cybercrime #domain

„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

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

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.

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?

"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

⚠️ 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%"

#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

BSI prüft E-Mail-Programme
"In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wurden zwölf für den Verbrauchermarkt relevante E-Mail-Programme dahingehend analysiert, inwiefern sie Eigenschaften wie Transport- und Inhaltsverschlüsselung, SPAM-, Phishing- und Tracking-Schutz sowie Prinzipien der Usable Security umsetzen".
https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Publikationen/DVS-Berichte/E-Mail-Programme.html
#did #digital #email #datenschutz #spam #tracking

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])"

@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

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

Alt...

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

John Oliver piece on LLM slop and it's damage to the whole internet is so good, I want to ask you to take the time to watch it twice.

Sublime, this is the vid of the day for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc

#LLM #slop #technology #AI #bad #spam #meta #google #youtube #Alphabet #tiktok

Receiving a growing number of automated fundraising requests for candidates around the country, on a phone number that has never been associated with any political activity (or, really, any activity at all).

Thanks, data breaches.

Democrats: this is not a way to make friends.

#dataProtection #spam

Oh, here's a new one. I've been added to a team in Microsoft Teams! The team name is as follows, with a few redactions. Typos left as-is.

Subscription Payment of Amount 799. 99 USD is confirmed. If this wasn’t you reach Support immediateIy at 1 (805) 284-xxx, Plan: Norton Ultimate Plus (1 Year) Invoice ID:ANE‬‬-93xxxx

#scam #spam #microsoft #microsofteams #microsoft365 #abuse

God help us. Are they sharing our email addresses with the alt-right White House press corp? Got an unsolicited, not opted-in for, out-of-the-blue introductory newsletter from The Epoch Times that went to a dedicated, unpublished email account I use ONLY to conduct personal government business, like SSA, IRS, etc.

The email said when I click an article link I will be consenting and an account would be created based on my email.

The article in the email weren't alt-right or conspiracy ones. They were bait. #USPol #Spam #Disinfo

Anyone else yet?

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.