LoLo’s safe for work blog about Internet scams, deceptive marketing, spam, spyware, adware, and other asshatery.
31
Jan
The skinny:
1. Some eTards decided to harass Officer John Nohej for having a MySpace friend who linked to adult content when he was simply trying to reach out to kids at the middle school he is assigned to.
2. Hilarity ensues as netizens rip the eTards apart for this retardedness. The school he works at? […]
28
Jan
Home –> Computers –> Virus Hoaxes & Realities –> Snopes Funded By Adware
Money Over Integrity
Claim: Snopes serves popup ads from Value Click Media (FastClick) which encourage visitors to install adware from Zango (The Axis Of Evil).
Status: True.
Example: [Collected on the Interwebs, 2008]
I am a big fan of Snopes, and use the service […]
27
Jan
Friday morning I got an interesting email…
Looks like a typical phishing email, right? Sure. There were two things that got my attention though…
1. It got through Gmail’s spam filter.
2. The link went to PayPal’s real login page. WTF?
Usually, a phishing email will use the correct address as the anchor text of a spoof log-in page […]
26
Jan
I stole this blog’s title from the ending thought Alex Eckelberry (someone who understands the interweb) left on his latest blog entry. He gives a solid overview of the current retardedness being shown by law enforcement (people who don’t understand “that interweb thingy”). The last big story like this was the Julie Amero case. Just […]
23
Jan
My buddy PaperGhost just posted this:
Myspace Fake Profile Spammers: This Is How They Do It
It gives an overview of an odd MySpace spamming app that works in conjunction with files hosted on the net. The only thing I can imagine is that we got our hands on this thing early and it’s just a beta […]