{"id":477,"date":"2007-02-19T12:03:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T17:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=477"},"modified":"2007-02-19T13:17:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T18:17:55","slug":"spammers-sink-to-new-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/02\/19\/spammers-sink-to-new-lows\/","title":{"rendered":"Spammers sink to new lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a really amazing bit of spam, purporting to be from an American soldier serving in IRAQ.  It&#8217;s a standard <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advance_fee_fraud\">Nigerian Oil Scam<\/a>, except here it&#8217;s $25M &#8220;liberated&#8221; from Saddam&#8217;s family and a dishonest &#8220;soldier&#8221; who wants help getting the money out of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m no fan of this absurd war, it really pisses me off when people abuse it to make money at the expense of the soldiers and citizens that have to work and live through it all.  With our President and his Halliburton buddies setting such a shining example, though, I guess I shouldn&#8217;t be too surprised by this sort of spam, however.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a really amazing bit of spam, purporting to be from an American soldier serving in IRAQ. It&#8217;s a standard Nigerian Oil Scam, except here it&#8217;s $25M &#8220;liberated&#8221; from Saddam&#8217;s family and a dishonest &#8220;soldier&#8221; who wants help getting the money out of Iraq. While I&#8217;m no fan of this absurd war, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/02\/19\/spammers-sink-to-new-lows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spammers sink to new lows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-7H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":248,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/10\/13\/when-life-gives-you-spam-make-lemonade\/","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":0},"title":"When life gives you spam &#8211; make lemonade!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"13 Oct 05","format":false,"excerpt":"New Kid just posted a really wonderful analysis of a recent variant on the all-too-common Nigerian Oil Scam spam. What a hoot! Shows what can be accomplished if a keen mind is brought to bear on a problem of importance. Or, well, maybe not so much importance, but still quite\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":712,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/20\/akismet-rocks-upgrades-bring-hiccups\/","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":1},"title":"Akismet rocks; upgrades bring hiccups","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"20 Nov 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the weekend I finally found time for a major set of upgrades to all of the family blogs. One of many impetuses for this was the vast ocean of comment spam that I was dealing with from my blog. 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