Since January 16, 2006, over 39,000 attempts to post comment spam to this site have been logged. That’s 1,000 spam comments since January 14, 2007.
Month: January 2007
Friday Random Ten: 2007-01-19
| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? | R.E.M. | Monster | Rock |
| 2. | Only A Matter Of Time | Dream Theater | Live At Budokan [Disc 2] | Metal |
| 3. | Tower Of Inspiration | Dave Weckl | Master Plan | Jazz |
| 4. | Where Are You? | Monty Python’s Spamalot | Original Cast Recording | Soundtrack |
| 5. | Love Me Do | The Beatles | Anthology 1 (Disc 1) | Rock |
| 6. | When The Lie’s So Big | Frank Zappa | Broadway The Hard Way | Alternative & Punk |
| 7. | N.E.O. (Featuring Dr.Fiorella Terenzi) | Thomas Dolby | The Gate To The Mind’s Eye | Alternative & Punk |
| 8. | Yours And Mine | Fountains Of Wayne | Welcome Interstate Managers | Alternative & Punk |
| 9. | You Shook Me | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin I | Rock |
| 10. | White Punks on Dope | The Tubes | The Tubes | Rock |
WINNING NOTIFICATION
Another one of these scams got past my spam filters…
Click on the links in the message to see that various numbers in this scam email are not exactly unique.
From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <rissie@adelphia.net>
Date: Jan 18, 2007 7:41 AM
Subject: **WINNER**
WINNING NOTIFICATION We happily announce to you the draw (#978) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY held on 13th January, 2007. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:5647560054 188 with Serial number 5368/02 jack pot lotto winners drew the lucky numbers: (-02-06-21-34-35-49-(46-) “bonus no 46. which subsequently won”you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £250.000 (two hundred and fifty thousand pound sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03 in a total sum of £1,000,000 (one million pounds sterlings) lotto jackpot shared amongst the first four (4) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus! Bonus with percentage 16.9%. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. Our fiduciary agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed. This is part! of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
For payment, please do provide with the following informations: And send to our Fiduciary Agent.
FULL NAME, SEX, ADDRESS, COUNTRY, FAX, PHONE NUMBER, OCCUPATION, COMPANY’S NAME, AGE, REF NUMBER.Mr John Richards
Email: agent_johnrichardss7@yahoo.com
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY FIDUCIARY AGENT
Yours faithfully,
Brain Hunt.
Funny how a “WINNING NOTIFICATION” from the “UK NATIONAL LOTTERY” came from a machine within the U.S.A.
(more…)More Insane Idiocy from Bill O’Reilly
I originally heard this example of insanity from Bill O’Reilly on a local radio show yesterday. Check out: O’Reilly: Abducted child “liked … his circumstances,” had “a lot more fun” than usual (via Eschaton)
2002 Chicago Royal Airs – Photos
This is also wrong…
WRONG
(via Memoirs of a Skepchick) I was wondering if a “psychic” ever chimed in on the Shawn Hornbeck case… Montel: Shawn Hornbeck Reading Psychic’s clues lead to new searches, but no luck By LEROY SIGMAN\Daily Journal Staff Writer RICHWOODS — A segment in which the parents of missing 11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck talked with psychic Sylvia … Continue reading “WRONG”
Radical Cleric Pat Robertson Says Something Stupid
(via Hecate) Robertson Says “Only Those With Strong Religious Faith” Have Children In order to have babies, you’ve got to have a hope in the future … If you don’t believe in God, if you have an existential view of life, if this life is all there is, then, as Peggy Lee sang “why don’t … Continue reading “Radical Cleric Pat Robertson Says Something Stupid”
Situational Science
(via Doonesbury)
Spammers: The Algerian hook is too good for them
Since January 16, 2006, over 38,000 attempts to post comment spam to this site have been logged. That’s 1,000 spam comments since January 7, 2007.