Bad Websites: summer.7p.com - do not buy!

Sizzlin rip-off! The owner of this website is the notorious scammer Mike Ogden (or mogden) from Canada. This person pretends to be selling goods on the internet at prices that no smart person would sell, as they'd have to used for 10 years to reach so low prices.
In short, if you know what's good for you:
DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM MIKE!

The website is marked as bad in WOT, an addon for Mozilla Firefox internet browser. It's a good plugin to check whether a website can be trusted or not.

The Canadian police doesn't give a damn about that, he's spamming on the irc about "cheap sales" and rips off people by receiving the money and never sending any goods.
The email he uses at the moment seems to be summergoods@gmail.com - Send him my "regards" ;)

Spam: Replying to spammers (Part II)

It's been some time, but it's not my fault GMail has a good spam protection or its users have great high IQ to distinguish an email from a spam email. You can view the second spam mail that passed through published on Google Documents.

This time it looks like yours truly (to be accurate 'my email') is congratulated of winning something; "Congratulations Your E-mail Won". Further reading gives some more details, i.e. it has to do with the UK National Lottery - wow! Although I've been to the United Kingdom twice in my life so far, I can't really say that I've given this email anywhere, because this email is just several months old. Now the tricky part: who to contact? As expected, they use a free email provider, such as Yahoo, and in order to make it more credible they used a .co.uk one - yahoo.co.uk! I must tell you I believe in miracles, but I don't intend to give my personal details to one ;)

Try again spammers.

Spam: Replying to spammers

"You've got spam! It's not mail!" (Futurama) I've just received my first spam on the email connected to this blog - weee! Spam has become an every day matter to some of us website administrators (bloggers count as well!). Spammers are usually paid for their services, or they are website administrators advertising and populating their webtraffic using a costless, yet very effective way.

It's effective, and that's proven by the fact that I'm blogging about it. But I'm reaching this topic because it's the first I replied to a spammer, just to see if they will ever read it. It's kind of fun to tease them around, I'll be doing this from now on, posting some funny replies etc. It should be interesting! ;)

Their spelling errors are sometimes deliberate to get through spam detectors, so in my opinion, that "you have be picked" has a purpose.

As I've explained in this post, there are a number of reasons to choose gmail as your main email address or your "spam layer" as I like to call it.

My reply was: "I hereby declare that this is marked as spam throughout gmail :) have a nice day!" If you read the spam mail you'll understand why.