How Spam Works?
How it works?
Every few days I am sorting through Securitypie’s spam queue. Our anti-spam engine detects most of the spam messages but there are few that it asks one of the administrators to approve. Most of those messages are targeting a single post. Assaf’s self confession “Why I miss the Soviet Union is like a spam magnet.
Why? What is so unique about those 875 words that make it different? Could it be that the desire to see “a visionary CTO with a set of brass balls. Not a Cisco kowtowing CIO” makes the difference?
It would be interesting to see how the spammers threat this post. If you have a clue, send us a comment.
Off topic, but still on:
I got spammed in the street the other day.
No, really.
I was walking down the street in Manila (Philippines) when a guy came to me and asked if I’m interested in buying Viagra or Cialis.
I’ve been offered to buy anything from Hashish to stolen goods on the street, but that’s my first spam crossover.
What’s next? People on the street offering to pay them money so they can secure the release of funds from the security company and split it with me?
Or perhaps that scruffy man just happens to know that penny stock ABCD will skyrocket in the next day? I wonder.
– Arik
Arik
30 Jun 09 at 5:34 am