LoLo’s safe for work blog about Internet scams, deceptive marketing, spam, spyware, adware, and other asshatery.
24
Jan
In case you haven’t heard…
There’s a zillion billion news stories going around about MySpace filing suit against Scott Richter who is fairly well known as the “Spam King”. He picked up that name after owning a clothing line that used it (in violation of someones trademark, naturally) and for… Well, being one of the biggest […]
21
Jan
About a week back my buddy Paul Wood from MessageLabs received a friend request from “some lovely lady – ahem” on MySpace. If you’re a regular over at the trailer park of the interweb, you’re more than use to getting bogus friend requests from fake profiles being used to market some nonsense, phish your password, […]
8
Jan
For the love of strippers and one dollar bills, you would think that the QuickTime mess over at MySpace would be over by now. Well, it’s not. Here we are with a new QuickTime worm over 30 days after MySpace and Apple completely botched up their security patch effort which resulted in a goofy blame […]