I would for to buy this most excellent spammer a beer, but he not provide a very good link for to contact himself very much.
Tagged: spam
How to block text message spam on the iPhone
If you frequently get text message spam, you’ve no doubt considered sticking a pencil in your ear out of frustration. Before you soil a perfectly good pencil, take a look at OSXDaily’s excellent tutorial on how to block text message spam on your iPhone.
AOL email still a spammer’s dream
Most people who know their way around communicating on the web understand that most free email services result in receiving unwanted email (spam).Over the years, two services have become well known for being major targets for spammers, Microsoft’s Hotmail and AOL. A few months ago I received an invite to beta test AOL’s latest webmail update, codenamed Project Phoenix, and decided to give it a try. My findings were pretty much what I expected. Unfortunately.
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Facebook invades your privacy again: Now giving out your home address
This past Friday night, Facebook pushed out a new update to the service which allows any developer to gain access to your contact info, including home address and cell phone number. They announced this after business hours, most likely so the vast majority of tech-savvy media outlets were home for the weekend.
Facebook pulls a fast one on users: gives away even more of your private information
I never entered my home address or phone number in my Facebook profile, but if you did, I would recommend you delete the info now before developers intent on spamming your phone and home mail box get a hold of it.
In Facebook’s defense, they DO ask you when an app requests this info. But Facebook also knows darn well that the average user isn’t going to understand what it means or how to deal with it. The fact that they announced this on their developer blog late on a Friday night just goes to show you that they know it’s sneaky and you probably wouldn’t agree to it if they put it right on your profile page as an announcement.
The intent of this is feature, I’m sure, is to allow you to log-in to other sites using your Facebook account and when you purchase something, you won’t have to enter that private information manually. But I don’t buy it. Not only does every browser on the market already have a basic auto-fill function, but there are numerous extensions and plugins that also accomplish this – such as 1Password.
Disposable email addresses to combat Spam
In an effort to combat SPAM, I came across a disposable e-mail address site. SpamBob offers a free email address that you can use for registering with Web sites that you don’t really want to give out your real address to. While these Web sites offer what appears to be valuable services in the war against spam, I urge you to take caution when using them. Some sites may or may not be a front for spammers to begin with.