» Scam http://www.alyssey.net/weblog Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:47:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Back on board! http://www.alyssey.net/weblog/2010/07/back-on-board/ http://www.alyssey.net/weblog/2010/07/back-on-board/#comments Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:31:51 +0000 alyssey http://www.alyssey.net/weblog/?p=67 So… my site was taken hostage by a pair of thugs who called themselves Mr Spam and Mr Scam, and they broke things badly, leaving me to rebuild from backups and everything. I know most of you have commented at some point on one or more of the few entries I have written. Can I ask you to do it again, if you have the time? I absolutely loved your comments!

Seems like WordPress is much better for this kind of stuff than what I had before, and I have finally finished migrating to that.

I will start with my usual entries (including the one that got lost) during the week. Meanwhile, please enjoy, look around, if I’m missing your site send it over so I might add it to the link section and comment!

]]> http://www.alyssey.net/weblog/2010/07/back-on-board/feed/ 3 Another type of scamming! http://www.alyssey.net/weblog/2010/06/another-type-of-scamming/ http://www.alyssey.net/weblog/2010/06/another-type-of-scamming/#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:42:00 +0000 alyssey http://28@www.alyssey.net/weblog/ Oh people that spam, aren’t you REALLY something special? Just take a looks at what I got here the other day:

Scam!

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I am not sure if this is a real spam email, mostly because I don’t really know any guy called Alejandro Garcia but this is an example of “attempted” viral marketing. Someone forwards someone else an email showing this “AWESOME” video and, if you vote on it, you’ll get something, so this someone else forwards it to someone else so he can keep on winning and so on and so on.

People. Really. REEAAALLY….. Bill Gates is NOT going to send you money, the nigerian are NOT going to send you gazillions of dollars and you will not be coursed by the lonely virgin if you don’t forward the email to 7 people. You will also won’t be finding happiness if and only if you forward something to 12 of your closest friends.

So do as I do, click on REPORT SPAM as soon as you receive them. These people have to be taught a lesson.

]]> http://www.alyssey.net/weblog/2010/06/another-type-of-scamming/feed/ 0 And I almost fell for it… http://www.alyssey.net/weblog/2007/11/and-i-almost-fell-for-it/ http://www.alyssey.net/weblog/2007/11/and-i-almost-fell-for-it/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:54:00 +0000 alyssey http://6@www.alyssey.net/weblog/ So I’ve been buying several things at eBay, I wanted some hard to get stuff for The Boy and found them, so getting this communication REALLY freaked me out…

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And I doubted for a moment… did I contact this guy? Maybe I did… hmmm but then I saw some stupid IP address instead of your usual eBay link… and I wonder… how many people would have actually fallen for it?

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