You’ve all heard that the Chinese shot down one of their old weather satellites in a test of anti-satellite systems.
Well, I got some fascinating spam with the title ‘Chinese shoot down American weather satellite’. Presumably to get you to open it in a rage and click on a story.
Tricky little fellows there! I also get a bunch of spam to enlarge certain parts of my body. I’m thinking the spammer guys who send out these kinds spam from their Florida trailer parks, must particulary be in need of such a device 🙂
On the good side relating to spam, eBay has finally come to its senses, and decided to HIDE bidders names in auction listings, from other bidders. You used to be able to do an advanced search on ebay and find ANY user name with conditions like those who just bid on an auto auction. One poor lady got sucked in to a bogus 2nd chance offer to buy an Oldsmobile for $1500.
I’m still getting bogus 2nd chance offers to buy cars I’ve bid on, all to the old email address I used at the time. They specifically state it is because of bogus 2nd chance offers. About time!
Sadly I think the sellers may still be able to see your user name. I don’t think they should unless you win the auction. I have reason to believe I bid on a couple auctions where the automobile was not really for sale.
Both were high priced vans, both had 11,000 miles listed, both were at about the same time, both finally sold for 45,100; both subsequently re-appeared a couple months later, and one seller was in CA, one in AZ.
Maybe they were harvesting names for bogus 2nd chance offers. I think they got around the sellers fee by putting a high reserve so no-one ever buys the car, and they pay only listing fees, not selling fees, which are much higher.
Well enuf of my anti-phishing and spam rant. Any more progress against this scourge that now takes up 94% of email bandwidth? (that’s 19 out of every 20 email servers that would not be needed without it)