Category: Spam

  • Google doesn't get SPF

    Someone has decided to use my email address for a spam source. They have even used google to relay it which, given Googles current policies seems like a winning idea. I keep getting emails from Google’s servers with header lines like …

  • WordPress password bots

    Browsing through my logs I noticed that one particular IP address was continuously trying to go to wp-login.php After a few more greps, it seems he really likes this URL. So, Mr 37.115.188.210 congratulations for testing a few things and welcome to the blocklist. I love fail2ban, but initially I didn’t have it for the…

  • Goodbye mygbiz

    Google seems to try to invent new and interesting ways for spammers to spam me (and many others).  I’ve still not worked out a good way to block “fake googlegroups” which follow this method: Make new fake gmail login Make new fake google group Add lots of people’s email addresses to the group Send lots…

  • More spam from nobistech.net

    I get a lot of spam.  Most of it, thankfully is blocked by dspam but occasionally i get some through the filter.  One that particularly caught my eye was interesting not so much what it was advertising (I don’t read that part of the email) but where it came from and goes to. Normally there…