I just had a prank phonecall from a UK mobile phone number - 07518 840815 - feel free to distribute this number and call it...

From one of my many, many spam emails - they seem to sell a timemachine :

Groan - spam is mutating again :

Spammers using shortened URLs to spread their muck Message Labs - part of internet security guru Symantec - is warning that shortened URLs are becoming an issue in terms of spam. This graph shows how the inclusion of shortened URLs in spam email has increased from practically nothing a to almost 2% in just a few days: [From Spammers using shortened URLs to spread their muck]

From one of the government organisations on how to protect your children online I found thsi question in one of their Quiz'es

SPIM????

I suspect they really meant SPAM.

My favorite spamfilter - ASSP - has some new facilities in the latest version.

My favourite these days is the ability to send a email to the dummy address "asspblock" in the format "user@server=>receivinguser" sends you a detailed list of all emails for the particular user that have been blocked, and gives the receiving user the ability to forward these messages to the user...

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