I totally love Phishing when they are obviously juvenile
Well Ok I love it when Phishers are really being idiots, and yet another phising attempt fails to snare its intended victim, namely me, and namely because the phisher is being very stupid. I do a lot of shopping online so I am fairly sensitive to the loss of an account or someone trying to [...]
Struggling with Facebook Noise to Signal Ratio
In general, social networks can be a good thing; the only problem is when the noise level becomes too high to have any meaning when it comes to sharing information. Over the last few months, Facebook games have exploded as Farmville and Mafia Wars get more and more players. The only problem with this is [...]
Here’s How Not to Use CRM: Dumb Campaigns
The best CRM system can’t help you if your sales / marketing team is clueless. Here’s a ridiculous email I’ve just received. Name removed to protect the (not-so) innocent X. Y. kindly requests a meeting Hi Zoli, In celebrating our 40th anniversary, I’ve been given the privilege to manage the relationship between your organization and [...]
How to Prune Twitter Spammers if Your Account is Compromised
I’ve just received one of those “Hey, I just added you to my Mafia family. You should accept my…” crap-spam-junk invitations on Twitter. Normally these come from accounts I don’t recognize, and I either ignore or block them. But this time it came from a gray-haired, well-respected industry analysts – I just could not imagine [...]
Another Downside to Twitter – Any Cute Guys Out There?
We recently put one of my established companies on twitter and selected some very good people to follow based on what we were doing and what the vertical for that company is and what we are about. The interesting part to this is that we put this up on Sunday, and here it is some [...]
The Oddest Twitter Followers
Image via Wikipedia Going through my twitter followers tonight to see who decided to follow me for whatever reason. What is surprising to me is the number of followers I would consider spammers or people who I just do not want to associate with professionally. Which then got me thinking to do a little back [...]
Buying Popularity Online via USocial
Well you know this had to happen, since you can still purchase Digg’s, and a ton of other forms of popularity in social networking it is not surprising that an enterprising company would come up with a way to allow people to purchase Facebook friends. USocial is the company that will sell you Digg votes [...]
Spam: Probably the Most Interesting Speech of the Day at Gnomedex 09
Had the opportunity to listen to one of the older purveyors of Pill Spam on blogs, Pligg, and other social networks. I owned a Pligg site there for a bit and was intimately wrapped up in the Pligg comment spam issue to the point where the stie was actually shut down by the ISP due [...]
An Example of a Really Poor Phishing Attempt
Every once in a while you get to see a really bad poorly crafted phishing attempt on your account. Surprisingly enough, not enough examples of a poorly crafted phishing attempt are on the internet. Here is my contribution to the body of knowledge on really poorly crafted phishing attempts. Nothing has been edited to protect [...]
Diigo Annotations – A Tool For Spammers
Diigo, a powerful social bookmarking site, is a favorite app for most of us here in Cloud Ave. Ever since I started using Diigo after reluctantly converting from Delicious, I have started doing evangelism for their service. I have been trying to impress as many friends and colleagues to go with Diigo, showing some of [...]
The One Huge Issue That Is Going To Kill Tag-based Reading Systems
Louis Gray pointed out a new reading system yesterday called Lazyfeed, and overall I am pretty happy with it, but like all tag based reading systems, spammers and other miscreants have so corrupted the general tag base to get their message in front of people that tag based systems need something else to make sure [...]
Quality my Friends, Not Quantity. Moonfruit and the Art of Spam (2.0)
Over the weekend the hottest topic on Twitter wasn’t Michael Jackson, Honduran Coups d’etat or Roger Federer’s win at Wimbledon (congrats Roger by the way) no in fact it was a competition run by website creation offering Moonfruit. For those who didn’t see it, Moonfruit were giving away a Macbook Pro every day for ten [...]
Cisco's New Sweety Strategy (Mobile Collaboration, Too…)
This does not require any further commentary 8 minutes ago from HootSuite RT Berenice_sweety Cisco to Expand Mobile Collaboration Features (PC World) Cisco to Expand Mobile Collaboration Features by PC World: Yahoo! Tech 8 minutes ago from HootSuite RT Bennie_sweety Cisco to Expand Mobile Collaboration Features (PC World) Cisco to Expand [...]
Why Google Should Acquire Oopsmail
I bet you did not know there was a service called Oopsmail: Oopsmail offers simplicity! It is the simplest email you will ever find anywhere. … YOU should be the one to decide what mail you want to receive and what you don’t… not your ISP or email provider! With OopsMail.com you will always receive [...]
Is Twitter Being Used to Attack Blogs? We Still Need Social Feeds.
By Zoli Erdos on January 14, 2009
An older post on my personal blog, If Scoble Thinks He Found Bad Startup Marketing, He Ain’t Seen Nothing received several comments this morning, all showing the same structure, pointing back to Twitter accounts – some are clearly spam accounts with only this one update, but others appear to be real users, although I am [...]
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