@Raccoon
I have done the needful.

#scam #scammer #spam

@bittner seems like none of the people responsible for this #Spam even took 5 seconds to check your profile and realize that cisbinary gender-marketed real hair extensions propably ain't a product fit…

*squinting at the notifications coming from new users at #Pixelfed *

Like I said, I'm a little bit concerned about the bots/spammers having discovered Pixelfed.

I'm *definitely* a little bit suspicious about Pixelfed (and #Fediverse in general) users who have numbers at the end of the username, because, you know, *there's not that many users in Fediverse* and at least for now you can usually easily snag your desired username, or something! At least that's what most people try first, right?

#spam

The US phone #spam-reporting site is off during the government shutdown 🤦

> You're receiving this email because you've indicated in the past that you'd like
> to receive marketing emails from Princess Auto.

Oh, no I f*cking well haven't!

Shame on you, Princess Auto!

#PrincessAuto #spam #UCE #Canada

Hey folks,

Although I'll be able to ditch the offending email address soon... has anyone else noticed a weird sort of spam where it seems you've opened a help ticket with random companies?

Those companies have to periodically say "they're not from us".

But this type seems to be the "thing" at the moment and it's insane the number that are coming through.

#Email #Spam #Emails

Spam invitation to be featured in a book club #EconTwitter #moraleconomics #spam
http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/02/spam-invitation-to-be-featured-in-book.html

Very long ago a Finnish cellphone carrier Saunalahti tried to force us a deal where the promised plan prices included receiving ads. If I recall correctly, they wanted 1€ more to opt out of it. The sales pitch was that it would not be spam, but selected exciting offers and information from them and their partners. Now to me this stinks like a soft dog shit during summer, but I was a broke helpdesk slave at the time and refused to pay them that 1 euro ransom. Local authorities put an end to that after a while.

I had used an alias e-mail address when I first signed up with them, so it was something in the lines of pias-saunalahti@somedomain.tld. Something that wouldn't obviously get guessed address spam.

I've long since moved to another carrier, but since it was an old web mail account I no longer use, I just left it behind. I logged in just out of curiosity and oh boy does it get spam. Anything from scams, dating scams to just generic spam.

'Only our partner's selected exciting offers'. Check. #spam

Google's @johnmu says search algorithms, spam detection and policies don't fundamentally change with AI Search https://www.seroundtable.com/google-algo-changes-with-ai-search-40851.html via @lilyraynyc

#google #aisearch #googlealgorithm #spam #seo #googleseo

I went to my email trash can looking for something, and noticed the Occupy Democrats Fund emails.

Wow, what crap.

At some point I wrote a rule to send those directly to trash.

> Whatever you do, DON’T close this email without signing our one-click petition to remove Trump

> ** PS: We’re dangerously close to missing our signature goal, and without your name, we may not have ample support to demand Congress take action and remove Trump from the White House. **

Right, and exactly how will you "demand" congress do that?

Crappy emails like this suppress the vote, by turning people off of the entire process.

They are also just ugly emails. With an awful collection of fonts, colors, and moving arrows directing you to the links.

#spam #political

Hm, ganz schön viel #Spam bzgl. #Zahnversicherung
... man könnte fast glauben....

#DankeMerz #DankeUnion 🤡

Every time you find it hard to understand how the world has gotten into the spot of trouble it's in today, just remember that there are actually people on the internet who fall for scams like this one.
And they vote.
#spam #idiocracy

Yeah, I'm definitely going to connect with this guy. Excellent invitation to connect, no notes. /s
#AI #slop #AISlop #spam #LinkedIn
[EDIT: removed the IBM hashtag since it turns out he does not currently work for IBM, that's just LinkedIn lying.]

Rechtsanwaltskanzlei (!) aus Stuttgart schickt mir schon zum zweiten Mal unbestellt eine E-Mail mit einem PDF im Anhang. Eine Preisliste zu Liquidationsartikeln. Meine Anfrage, ob sie für die Aussendung verantwortlich sind (Absender ist nicht ihre eigentliche Mailadresse, aber die ist in der Mail genannt), woher sie die Daten haben usw., beantworten sie mit „Ist Ihr Leben wirklich so langweilig..“

OK, dann muß es halt der zuständige Datenschutzbeauftragte sein. Nein, mein Leben ist eigentlich nicht langweilig, Herr Rechtsanwalt. Aber Ihres wird bald spannend.

#Spam #Datenschutz

<sigh>

One of the things I never experienced was social media advertising. When someone shows up on a social platform and never engages, but repeatedly posts advertisements / essays of their political point of view, selling their **BRAND**, well, I call that #spam.

It should not matter if you are in politics, or in business, religion, utopian society, humanism, science…. It is a social platform. Be sociable.

Especially since most instances are run by volunteers, not marketing firms.

#NDP

They know where I am and what I'm doing!

I've been driving my uncles' car while in Minnesota. I am now receiving SiriusXM spam emails.
They are subscribed to SiriusXM.

#SPAM
#SPAMEmail
#enshittificaton

Wowsers, so many new regos on my long-neglected blog! All with random 10-character alphabet-soup usernames, from unique email addresses, starting at 2 AM UTC two days ago.

The last time this blog attracted any bot love (from the same bot, apparently, since it used the same 10-character username template) was in late 2023.

#spam #bots #blog

@AAKL

It mostly seems to be Mastodon clickbait, and it seems to be working

I'm seeing references to it constantly

#Moltbook #Clickbait #Spam #Scam

@lymphomation

It's a now-ancient phishing / malware scam, which for some mystifying reason the admins and moderators of @Mastodon dot Social seem to be completely unable to control or stop, either outbound from their own monolithic servers or inbound to their hundreds-of-thousands of users

Despite the constant repetition of some very persistent phrases that even I could write a regex to catch

#Mastodon #Phishing #Malware #Spam #Scam

The Rest Is Trash https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html) following up on #greytrapping, updating the 18 years piece https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html #openbsd #spamd #greytrappng #greylisting #antispam #cybercrime #networking #spam (reprise for the evening CET crowd)