Cormac Moylan

I have seen a few caught spam comments which include sentences such as ‘Please don’t delete my comment, I need the money. Thank you :)’.
But this evening I received a more ‘advanced’ attempt at reverse psychology spamming. The comment, from these tarts, stated that ‘Personally, I never use more than a single link in [...]

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Dave, the Irish Developer, blogged recently about some strange going ons with his Gmail account…
I believe my Google Account was just hacked tonight. My Thunderbird was prompting me for my password saying it was invalid. So I tried to log into my Google Account, and after 5 tries the password went through and I was [...]

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Dr. Dave’s Spam Karma is after throwing up a few false positives via the comment form today.
So if you have replied to any of my latest posts and your comment is missing then email me via cormac@cormacmoylan.com and I’ll see if I can resolve the problem from here.
Cheers,
Cormac

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Why do spammers place poetry and sometimes relgious writings (see below for sample) into spam emails for things such as Herbal Viagra and all that tripe?
unholy: flee to the Lord Jesus: He is full of grace and truth; Savior, and behold the wisdom of God in appointing him to we stand out any longer? [...]

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I haven’t had one of these requests in a long while. Mmm, I wonder what did happen to that Nigerian King in the end?

Hello Friend,
My name is Mrs.Rosemary King I am a dying woman who has decided to donate what I have to charity through you.You may be wondering why I chose you. But [...]

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A few months ago I blogged about a few plugins to prevent spam on vBulletin. I have since updated that blogpost to include the two best plugins in their field.
The enhanced captcha plugin and the RBL Proxy plugin have reduced the spam on the blaa.ie forum to 0.
You can read the full post here.

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