Are you paying attention yet? Stop your cold emailing NOW. #Tabcorp fined $4m after breaking anti-spam laws. TAB cops fine after sending over 5,700 messages to VIP customers without an option to unsubscribe. #spam #spammers #spamlaw #coldemails #abuse https://www.cyberdaily.au/culture/12243-tabcorp-fined-4m-after-breaking-anti-spam-laws
#spammers
In certain countries one has to submit proof of id to obtain a mobile or landline #phone number. So why #telemarketing #spammers can rent numbers by the thousands without being identified?
I’m easily amused and have started again messing with Spammers and Scammers. Today’s is the first where the messager stopped responding to me.
#spammers #scammers
Got spam emails this morning by someone who opened an issue on GitHub with what was probably a very unsafe link and then just tagged dozens of users over and over and over. Why we needed 50 copies in a row of the same notification, IDK. Thankfully, the account is terminated already, but if this starts to be a regular thing, I might have to abandon GitHub altogether.
@stevendbrewer also never ever setup any #Mailforwared as #CatchAll, becaise #Spammers will hammer postmaster@ all day long...
Some spam I got this morning:
"[Some app] uses unique private keys for each transaction."
:catthinking:
If the security features of your app, which I've never heard of before, are such that you feel the need to advertise them through *spam*, what does it say about those very same features?
Marshall McLuhan famously said, "The medium is the message."
What message do you think you are sending when you are sending it through the medium of a spam comment on my blog?
I'll tell you: "I'm a liar and my app is shit."
I'd be hard-pressed to find a worse medium for your ad.
#spam #spammers #security #MarshallMcLuhan #TheMediumIsTheMessage
@delta @madsee34583 AFAIK you could use any mailserver pending it does #IMAP & #SMTP.
- You may want to get some decent one from a reputable webhoster as #Freemailers tend to severely limit the amount of messages to make their accounts useless for #Spammers...
Not shure what @monocles / https://mail.monocles.eu has as limits tho.
Today a telemarketer insisted on trashing my bank holiday with spam calls.
If you receive unwanted calls and mail and want to say good bye to them, register on these free services:
1> Telephone Preference Service (TPS) - https://www.tpsonline.org.uk/
2> Mailing Preference Service (MPS) - https://www.mpsonline.org.uk/
#spamcalls #callblocker #spamcallblocking #blockspamcalls #spamprotection #spam #spammers #robocalls #phonecall #fraudcalls #avoidscams #unwantedcalls #telemarketing #donotdisturb
This is a gif I made for mailing to spammers and anyone trying to blow smoke up my skirt...
#spammers #revenge #CheapThrills
#Spammers are really hard meanwhile. Incoming call from +44 7985 224463 to mobile. #AI voice or prerecorded woman voice tells me they want to speak over high paid job. I only have to add their number to #Whatsapp . Looks like that way they are not recogniced as spammers at Whatsapp for mass connecting to people.
New rule - based on "It's always OK to punch nazis": It's always OK to punch Cliev and Trumpet of Patriot members. #AusPol #Spammers #spam
New rule - based on "It's always OK to punch nazis":
It's always OK to punch Cliev and Trumpet of Patriot members. #AusPol #Spammers #spam
"To be clear, I am not really interested in criticizing any one individual here. In the absence of stronger rules on Instagram, this just comes down to a question of ethics. I am free to believe that what FutureRiderUS is doing is not ethical; they are free to disagree, or at least pretend to.
But neither of our opinions matter, because of two facts: fake AI slop is profitable, and there are countless users doing the same thing. There’s absolutely nothing to stop them.
That is: the Instagram platform doesn’t just enable this behavior, it rewards it. So do other platforms. On Instagram and TikTok, FutureRiderUS’s top hits are from fake LA fires; on YouTube, it’s three-hour long Christmas music compilations with slop visuals of families shopping. None are clearly labeled. Disaster porn is just another kind of #content.
It doesn’t really matter what that content is: as long as it is ‘content that grabs attention,’ both sides can make money.
For the slop creator and the platform, this is a clear win-win, at least in the short term. The only loser here is the audience, who is unable to recognize slop when they see it.
There’s this thing that AI proponents like to say every time something new comes out: this is the worst it'll ever be. So far, they've been right, and they may well continue to be right. It’s hard to predict what happens next with AI, but I have one prediction I feel fairly comfortable making: unaided, most of us will always struggle to reliably recognize AI when we see it.
But it’s hard to blame us when two sides are conspiring against us: Instagram’s interface makes it almost impossible to tell, and creators are incentivized to lie by omission."
#AI #GenerativeAI #AISlop #SocialMedia #Instagram #TikTok #GeneratedImages #AISpam #Spammers #Spamming
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:catthinking:
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Ars Technica: OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80,000 sites with messages that bypassed filters. “Spammers used OpenAI to generate messages that were unique to each recipient, allowing them to bypass spam-detection filters and blast unwanted messages to more than 80,000 websites in four months, researchers said Wednesday.”
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