Tag Archives: spam

Deceptive New Scientist Unsubscribe Link?

I’m a nerd, and I love most ‘sciencey’ things. As such, some time ago I subscribed to receive regular email updates from New Scientist magazine. While their articles were always interesting, before long I found I just didn’t have enough time to read them, so I unsubscribed. Or so I thought. I continued to regularly […]

Who Is Spamming My Apple iTunes Email Address?

Spam. We all hate it. When I created my Apple iTunes account, I created and used a specific email address – (not my main email account) – for use with the iTunes account. I have only ever provided that email address to Apple in creating that account, and dealing with Apple services. So why has […]

Media Tripe and How Not To Use Facebook

I often get frustrated with how technology problems are portrayed in the mainstream media. Invariably, a nameless staff writer gets tapped to write a quick story about a tiny snippet that has appeared on a wire service somewhere, generally without any real knowledge or understanding of what they are trying to write about. This example […]

Classy Spam Fail

Got a belly laugh from a piece of spam I found trapped by my filters this morning, showing how truly classy spammers can be: Gee, that’s an attractive email. Let’s open that one! Not!

Spammer Duh!

Got a chuckle at one of the spam emails trapped by my filters today – (take note: no scams or spams coming through my portal, Mr Conroy!): Spam declaring itself as “posible [sic] spam”? How nice of the spammers to help like that!