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#Spam des Tages: »Verpasse nicht deine Temu-Prämie #D21449«
http://spam.tamagothi.de/?p=26806 (HTTP, nicht HTT…

I miss procmail. But this is a decent start for my web-hosted mail server.
#spam

Forgot to run sa-learn for a while on my mailserver.
Luckily, I have approx 300k spam emails (catch-all addresses) that I can use :)

I'm now getting several political spam texts a day. This is a recent escalation and I've done my best to keep my cell phone number a secret for several years now. Politicians are ruining text messaging, just like they ruined phone lines.
So far my Google Pixel is doing a pretty good job blocking most of them as spam. But that's going to be a losing battle.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Spam Caller:
🎵 One more taste
#SpamCaller
https://spamcaller.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-taste
https://open.spotify.com/track/3SGlumUssFlMoQgXVkjxqv

Mac und iPad bekommen bald Telefonie-App – neue Anti-Spam-Features für iMessages
Apple erweiterte seine Systemintegration: Tablets und Rechner bekommen nun vollwertige Telefon-Apps. Dank KI soll man weniger warten und Spam umschiffen.

Der Wiedergänger des Tages aus meinem heutigen Spameingang: »Die Höhle der Löwen: Abnehmen war nie einfacher«…
http://spam.tamagothi.de/2025/06/19/die-hoehle-der-loewen-abnehmen-war-nie-einfacher/

Some domains of Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the CDC were exploited to host AI spam blogs redirecting users to a spam marketing site (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?
Domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR and the U.S. government are being quietly eaten by AI slop.

A spam marketing operation exploited some domains owned by NPR, Nvidia, Stanford, and the US CDC to host AI slop articles redirecting users to an SEO spam site (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?
Domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR and the U.S. government are being quietly eaten by AI slop.

Ok, let's say the reply guys are gone from Mastodon(I don't think they are)...
even if they were gone, there are still spam attacks and they are not hackers, they are simple user accounts spamming the usual youtube clickbait garbage.
Xi Jinping happy face
Trump sad face
on the thumbnail.
Blocked 2 accounts that posted such garbage. This is allowed though on my instance.
I guess users are free to "make content interesting".

Niemals ohne wirksamen Werbeblocker ins Web! Es ist dumm und gefährlich.
http://spam.tamagothi.de/?p=26795 (Nur HTTP, kein HTTPS)

Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?
https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?
Domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR and the U.S. government are being quietly eaten by AI slop.

yesterday I got mail from Kash Patel - today I got mail fom Melania Trump and JP Morgan. I guess I'm more successful than I understand myself

Abandoned Subdomains from Major Institutions Hijacked for AI-Generated Spam - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/12/019221/abandoned-subdomains-from-major-institutions-hijacked-for-ai-generated-spam

«Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?»
For the same reason that the internet is drowning in "AI" slop left and right: SEO link farm spammers creep have for years crept into every crevice using half-automated spam.
https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

Wer möchte nicht 100% seines Gewichtes verlieren? 😃 #spam

Der Telegram-Kanal von ZDF-»heute«…
http://spam.tamagothi.de/2025/06/18/der-telegram-kanal-von-zdf-heute/ (HTTP, nicht HTTPS)
#Telegram

At the end of March we decided to switch to a cheaper electric&gas company. The old company handled the disconnection process starting April 9th, which will be fully completed by April 30th.
This is the complete list of spam calls I received until yesterday.
Luckily I know how to handle the situation, still it seems to me unreal and crazy.
I'll be updating the graph every now and then just to fully understand the madness.

A Spam Scheme Is Filling University, Government, and Tech Giants’ Sites With AI Trash https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

PhoneBlock ist ein Community-Projekt, das mit einer ständig aktualisierten Blacklist nervige Spam-Anrufe blockiert – kostenlos und für Festnetz (z.B. FRITZ!Box) sowie Mobilgeräte. Ein VoIP-Anrufbeantworter nimmt Spam direkt entgegen. Digitaler Selbstschutz, der wirklich funktioniert! meint #Oliverswelt #SPAM

The surest way to make me think your spam isn’t spam is to tell me it isn’t spam, Deque. Tricked once again!

Der gesamte contentindustrielle Journalismus ist eine gigantische Kopiermaschine für industriell erzeugte Dummheit geworden, und über dem breiten Tor, das in die Idiocracy und das nächste finstere Mittelalter führt, stehen als flammendes Menetekel die Worte Breaking News
#Selbstzitat | Quelle:

One of the weirder spam comments I saw on youtube so far is:
"If sexy lingerie came with pockets for snacks, I'd be all in"
which is as weird as it is understandable

Now that whatsapp is getting spam, how many of your friends and family will stop using it?

“Discord just made an announcement…” where’s an official link then?
“Feel free to copy and paste to other servers.”
No, I do not think I will.
I’ve already seen this song and dance before. Last time it was about VRChat rippers and crashers supposedly planning to do mass raids on a particular day. So far as I have experienced and heard, nothing came of it.
I don’t appreciate the unverified @everyone spam.

I’ve long been a fan of the Check My Ads people. Now they’re launching a really ambitious-looking “Policy Platform” aimed at cleaning up the online-advertising business. My belief is that anyone who’s had much exposure to that business or to “AdTech” probably agrees that cleanup is called for. Check it out: https://checkmyads.org/policy/

My spam folder features emails from celebrities like Melania Trump and Kash Patel - both of them want to give me lots of cash

New level of enshittification unlocked.
Now I get spam in my Gmail account from @google.com addresses, advertising conferences for a product that I don't use.

Alert - new email spam angle!

#aigen #spam may cure your #fomo

I like my spam shaken, not stirred.

Spam des Tages: »Schnelle Aktion erforderlich, um Ihr Konto aktiv zu halten 🔑«
http://spam.tamagothi.de/2025/06/13/schnelle-aktion-erforderlich-um-ihr-konto-aktiv-zu-halten/
(HTTP, nicht HTTPS!)

Getting spam from companies like Newark or even smaller players like Win-Source is always weird to me.
Like, nothing you send me is going to change what parts I need for a design. And for a given part I'm going to pick from whatever distributor offers me the balance of (best price, shortest lead time, in stock, fastest shipping) that is appropriate for my needs.
Advertising changes nothing in that decision process.

Wow. Just wow. This must be the most ridiculous spam ever:
Dear Beneficiary:
Good day to you, dear lucky beneficiary. I am Honorable Marco Rubio, the newly appointed United States Secretary of State. The debt reconciliation for your inheritance compensation winning was discussed in a recent meeting with the U.S. National Central Bureau and the new President Donald Trump in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

Nu vill Alfrida Norrhem träffa mig i Eskilstuna - ännu en gång en namn som ingen i hela sverige har. Är det nån AI grej som försöker gissa sig till vad ett Svenskt namn kan vara #spam

A couple of folks said I should replace the pop-over email signup form on my blog with a much more subtle inline signup form at the top of the page. So! If you'd like to reward the more user-friendly design with your patronage and support (it's free, I only ask for your attention), you can sign up to get my new posts in your inbox just by sharing your email address. I won't spam you or sell your email, and don't post too often.

Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Luckily most newsletter providers offer RSS so you don't need to add more spam to your inbox to read a blog.
https://mastodon.social/@jcoglan/114574046492220178

Rant: Bluesky is now 30 minutes ahead of realtime news on Xitter and I’m still wasting time nuking the same old Nicole fediverse chick spam. There are reasons this platform isn’t the one that matters most. #mastoadmin

Every day I use the #Internet it gets more crap. First we had ads popping up everywhere. Then Google came in and crushed all the good stuff. Now we’re stuck with this AI slop no one asked for.
Remember when pages actually loaded fast? Not bloated with trackers and nonsense. When forums were real communities, not spam factories. When you could browse without being followed by cookies.…

Things to watch every 6 months
#mastodonadmin

I love being a #gitlab admin for @…. /s
https://blendos.co/blog/20…

#WhatsApp
a spam infected #enshitifcation POS.

That utterly awful feeling of waiting for an email and getting nothing but spam. This has been me for days, and though there are far worse feelings in the world, I am heartily ready to be done with this one! At this point, I might even take bad news, though of course I hope otherwise.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01462 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

First-Spammed, First-Served: MEV Extraction on Fast-Finality Blockchains
This research analyzes the economics of spam-based arbitrage strategies on fast-finality blockchains. We begin by theoretically demonstrating that, splitting a profitable MEV opportunity into multiple small transactions is the optimal strategy for CEX-DEX arbitrageurs. We then empirically validate these findings on major Ethereum rollups. To uncover the structure of reverted transactions, we construct execution graphs from transaction traces and systematically search them to identify DEX or rou…

Dürft Ihr auch schon die neueste Variante von Email Spam erleben?
Englische Wörter als Satz zusammengestellt, der absolut keinen Sinn ergibt. Mehrere Absätze lang.
Sehr spannend, hat so ca. vorige Woche begonnen. Literarisch wertvoller, als die „Ich habe Zugriff auf Deinen Rechner, deine b0rn0 Videos, für 0,0000001234 btc veröffentliche es nicht“.

offtopic AI spam could be generated by encyclopedias 👽

Let's say you find a really cool forum online that has lots of good advice on it. It's even got a very active community that's happy to answer questions very quickly, and the community seems to have a wealth of knowledge about all sorts of subjects.
You end up visiting this community often, and trusting the advice you get to answer all sorts of everyday questions you might have, which before you might have found answers to using a web search (of course web search is now full of SEI spam and other crap so it's become nearly useless).
Then one day, you ask an innocuous question about medicine, and from this community you get the full homeopathy treatment as your answer. Like, somewhat believable on the face of it, includes lots of citations to reasonable-seeming articles, except that if you know even a tiny bit about chemistry and biology (which thankfully you do), you know that the homoeopathy answers are completely bogus and horribly dangerous (since they offer non-treatments for real diseases). Your opinion of this entire forum suddenly changes. "Oh my God, if they've been homeopathy believers all this time, what other myths have they fed me as facts?"
You stop using the forum for anything, and go back to slogging through SEI crap to answer your everyday questions, because one you realize that this forum is a community that's fundamentally untrustworthy, you realize that the value of getting advice from it on any subject is negative: you knew enough to spot the dangerous homeopathy answer, but you know there might be other such myths that you don't know enough to avoid, and any community willing to go all-in on one myth has shown itself to be capable of going all in on any number of other myths.
...
This has been a parable about large language models.
#AI #LLM

\o/

I hate spam as much as you do, but sometimes I have to admire technical prowess.
https://www.theverge.com/microsoft/673568/microsoft-palestine-email-block-defeated-employee

https://aphyr.com/posts/388-the-future-of-comments-is-lies-i-guess
Tl;dr: Spam LLM is a combo that’s hard to deal with.

This spam email has a fake "click to unsubscribe". It looks like a link but its destination is set to a no-op in the email source code. I want to support "The Blue Resistance" but they are making it very difficult.

Rant: Bluesky is now 30 minutes ahead of realtime news on Xitter and I’m still wasting time nuking the same old Nicole fediverse chick spam. There are reasons this platform isn’t the one that matters most. #mastoadmin

«HellCaptcha: Accessibility Theater at Its Worst»
hCaptcha is not only useless and easily broken by bad actors (we tried it for the personal science/#quantifiedself wiki without it having any impact on spam), it also is impossible to use by legitimate users who rely on accessibility tools…
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/hellcaptcha-accessibility-theater-at-its-worst/

That utterly awful feeling of waiting for an email and getting nothing but spam. This has been me for days, and though there are far worse feelings in the world, I am heartily ready to be done with this one! At this point, I might even take bad news, though of course I hope otherwise.

This Facebook spam I got today knows what's up.

OK, das ist schräg. Beide Mitarbeitenden haben eine Email bekommen, deren Absender sich als ich ausgab.
Text wie folgt:
"Hoi [korrekter Vorname der MA]
Bist du verfügbar?"
Also: Absender gibt sich gezielt als jemand anderes im Team aus, duzt, und hat ne für die Schweiz typische Anrede drin.
Das war mehr als nur der übliche Spam.
Was wohl geschehen wäre, wenn die MA darauf geantwortet hätten?