Tá seic do chiste ($ 2.5 milliún) curtha i dtaisce againn trí roinn Western Union tar éis ár gcruinnithe deiridh maidir le do chiste. Níl le déanamh agat ach teagmháil a dhéanamh le Stiúrthóir Western Union, an Dr. Ferdinand Umeh trí sheoladh ríomhphoist, tabharfaidh sé treoracha duit maidir le conas […]
Email
Opt-Out of all the spam!
I’ve been getting a ton of CBD expo spam for months. Spamassassin picks up most of it, and Gmail collects the rest in the Spam folder. However, today one got through so I scrolled down to the unsub link and saw it was sendgrid. I recognise them from previously reporting […]
Email
Your DNA results are now ready!
This was a weird email to receive since I have never sent off a DNA sample to any company. Dear Friend, Your DNA results are now ready! The results of your DNA sample reveal information about your distant ancestors, including how and when they moved out of Africa and the […]
When-in-Ireland
Irish Water Phishing Emails
I must have been half asleep when I clicked the link in this email, but Gmail hadn’t caught it yet even though it’s an obvious phishing attempt, so be warned if you get an email warning of “urgent maintenance” of your account. Then again, it’s probably a bad site to […]
Tech
Sky obviously never check their customer surveys
Someone used my gmail address when they signed up for Sky Television. They must have lots of spare time and money to burn as they’re getting the “Variety with Sports & Movies” package at 83 Euro a month. Yikes. I filled in the Sky customer survey a few times but […]
Email
Extortion by Email Spam
Spammers are getting desperate. I received the following email a few days ago, which somehow got through Gmail’s spam filter: From: “germes” To: “donncha” Subject: RE: Hello Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:37:20 +0000 Hello You received this message because this is an email list for mass mailings. We analyze […]
Email
Link Exchange Spammers Are Back Again!
Well, the link spammers never really went away did they? Has anyone noticed a huge increase in the number of “link exchange” emails or is it that I’ve been added to a particularly busy spammer’s list? I just noticed that a few recent ones contained the text “emailsnomore(dot)com” so I’m […]
Email
The worst targeted spam ever!
I honestly thought that spammers had gotten smarter about making sure their emails were taken seriously. Even the most geeky and anti-marketing of developers will realise that big red and bold text, center justified, looks like something out of the last century. I hope for the sake of their business […]
Web
Email in 2009
I just ran the following code on the 2009 archive of my inbox. grep “From: ” 2009|cut -f 1 –complement -d ” “|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|less I received the most email from bots and scripts, among them WordPress.com, Twitter and Facebook. Of the real people here are the top 5 names […]
Linux
How to create Postfix database files
Every time I come to recreate the Postfix database file when I edit the file /etc/postfix/virtual.cf I forget what command I need to recreate virtual.cf.db Hopefully I’ll check my blog next time. The command is postmap. Hope this is useful for someone else too! postmap /etc/postfix/virtual.cf /etc/init.d/postfix restart