Friday
Spam isn't going away
I got a piece of B2B spam last week that showed in several different ways why spam isn’t going away any time soon.
Systemic problems dealing with abuse at scale at Google. Ethics problems at Cloudflare. Problems dealing with abuse at scale at Amazon. Cultural problems in India, several times over.
Buckle up.
Spammers, eh?
From my inbox, missed by the spamfilter:
Do you know people who have worked a lot or could not find a job for a long time and suddenly began to earn well, gain valuable items and look better?
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We can reveal to you their secret.
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We need your infarmation:
1) Your Name
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3) Telephone No. with a code of country if you are outside USA
Do Not Reply to this Email.
We do not reply to text inquiries, and our server will reject all response traffic.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
This is not a spam
If you don’t want to receive this message to your e-mail, call this number and refuse it – spell your e-mail
Is social media a laughing matter?
I really love my job, but sometimes I miss academia, research and science. One of the ways I stay somewhat connected to that world is reading Scienceblogs (and the new Scientopia site). A few weeks ago my worlds collided when one of the librarians at Scienceblogs posted a Friday funny: 5 signs you’re talking to a social media douchebag.
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