#spam — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #spam, aggregated by home.social.
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Offenbar hängt ganz Gaza vor den Handies, um Hilfsnachrichten abzusetzen.
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I wish there was an IP blacklists for #AI driven threats just like we have them for eMail #Spam today.
So if your cloud platform houses thousands of vibe-coded vulnerability scanners which are scraping millions of servers for thousands of ancient wordpress backdoors every day, your IP addresses should get blacklisted until nobody can run anything reliably on your infrastructure anymore.
There has to be a cost associated with #negligence and I don't see that being the case right now.
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IP logging is not enough: Court demands email proof for advertising emails
The Administrative Court of Düsseldorf has ruled: Pure IP addresses and timestamps are not sufficient to prove a valid double opt-in procedure.
#EMail #Netzpolitik #Spam #Verbraucherschutz #Werbebranche #Wirtschaft #news
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IP-Protokollierung genügt nicht: Gericht fordert E-Mail-Nachweis bei Werbemails
Das Verwaltungsgericht Düsseldorf hat entschieden: Reine IP-Adressen und Zeitstempel reichen nicht aus, um ein gültiges Double-Opt-In-Verfahren nachzuweisen.
#EMail #Netzpolitik #Spam #Verbraucherschutz #Werbebranche #Wirtschaft #news
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In case you missed it, I've updated my samples of unsolicited Spam & Scam emails - be aware!
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De laatste weken is het drukker met spammers dan normaal 😬
Thunderbird heeft ook een filter en die pikt er gelukkig wel een hoop uit. Mijn nieuwe eigen mailserver (met unieke aliassen) is nog helemaal schoon 👌
Wat wel verrassend is, is hoe slecht de spamfiltering van bepaalde Nederlandse hostingprovides is 🥴
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Remember #FirstManufacturing either selling my email address or letting it be stolen and refusing to admit to either?
The evidence that this happened just got more concrete: yesterday, I received spam to that address from another merchant, _and it mentions First Manufacturing in the header_.
I've emailed the company again and await their response. I also posted a 1-⭐️ review on Google Maps.
Details here if you're curious: https://blog.kamens.us/2026/07/18/first-manufacturing-co-selling-customer-email-addresses-in-violation-of-its-own-privacy-policy/#update0822
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Should I keep my email list for my newsletter/articles, or toss it and keep my RSS feed only?
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This is because of yesterday…
Newsletter SMTP provider: you’re over your limit.
Me: no way.
Provider: way.
Me: whoa. Hundreds of subscribers with fake emails bouncing away.
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I spent hours building/testing my subscription form to deter bots without compromising accessibility. It has worked perfectly.
What I didn’t know is that my self-hosted Listmonk server has their built-in subscription form live by default. And the spammers found it.
😭
I immediately disabled it and cleaned up my list, but now I’m reconsidering the value of email for Mark Writes. RSS is far superior, but lots of folks don’t know what it is or how to use it.
#Newsletter #RSS #Email #Spam #SpamBots #WhyDoSpammersRuinEverything
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🚨 585 scammer and spam accounts (including the accounts that continuously promote and defend them)!
All sorted alphabetically by domain first, making it easy to identify which domains may be problematic. 👀
https://github.com/Fediverse-Express/Fediverse/blob/main/block_spam_scam_users.csv
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The Web marketing community never learns from its mistakes. I'm beginning see huge numbers of obviously spammy YouTube videos crowd into certain types of queries on Google. This garbage content is obviously there only to influence the AI Overviews. Every time y'all come up with one of these genius ideas and you flood the Web with low-quality garbage, you end up crying and moaning that Google Done You Wrong when they finally crack down on it. You should really learn how to create real value. You won't have to flood the Web with garbage.
#seo #searchengineoptimization #youtube #ai #aioverviews #google #webmarketing #spam
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A Google concluiu a atualização anti-spam de agosto de 2026, afetando as respostas do motor de busca global e em todos os idiomas. A atualização foi implementada entre 18 e 21 de agosto.
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The Speakeasy just banned DonaldTrumpreal(at)mastodon.social for impersonation.
On the off chance that they are the real president of the United States, we stand by our ban. Genocide, fascism, and war crimes are just a few reasons we'd cite; there's undoubtedly a list longer than our post limit could handle.
Any attempt to appeal requires a full release of the Epstein files.
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Spam / Phishing alert.
I am expecting a package :pakidge: so of course I was immediately triggered when an email came in with this subject:
Delivery Update: Parcel damaged and address unclear.
Purports to be from Australia Post. It's bullshit of course. If you receive one of these, check the email address of the sender. Also bullshit. Report and delete.
No, I didn't click anything. Just momentarily triggered.
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https://proton.me/blog/gmail-political-spam-filter
The Gmail Verified Sender Program is a program launching September 8, 2026, for eligible, verified US political committees. It is designed to help campaign emails reach personal Gmail accounts more reliably, rather than being automatically filtered as spam.
AKA Gmail would rather take money then let you have a working SPAM
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The good thing about being back in the office and in front of my laptop all day is Inbox Zero can be maintained in a much more constant state.
Did my semi-annual purge and ‘unsubscribe’ from spam as well. With not too many faculty back yet, my email is currently feeling both slim *and* calm.
How many of the folks reading this are Inbox Zero People (ie. heavy email filterers)
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Tja, mastodon(.)social hat Spamanmeldungen immer noch nicht im Griff. Wer also komische Follower hat, welche frisch und ohne Info sind, diese direkt melden, inkl. Kopie an Originalinstanz. Auch, wenn sie von anderen Instanzen kommen.
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Search Engine Journal: Google Begins Rolling Out The August 2026 Spam Update. “Google has begun rolling out the August 2026 spam update, according to the Search Status Dashboard. The rollout applies globally and to all languages, and Google says it may take a few days to complete…. As of publication, Google hadn’t posted a blog article to go with the dashboard note. Its spam updates page […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/19/search-engine-journal-google-begins-rolling-out-the-august-2026-spam-update/ -
I am saddened by the fact that people seem to think that having their email delivered to someone who does not already know them is some sort of right.
Even mail system operators.
So when the Big Pink T decides to interpret German law broadly to require mail systems offering them email to have a discoverable website with an “Impressum” (Imprint) identifying the responsible party with usable contact info, that is entirely within their rights, even if they are legally incorrect.
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And probably coming to the UK in due course.
“Google created a special delivery channel for political campaigns at the expense of its users’ control over their own inboxes.”
But that’s the problem: they aren’t users’ own inboxes. They are Gmail’s inboxes. *All your email are belong to us.*
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Google revela por que motivo mantém atualizações anti-spam anunciadas após 26 anos. A empresa explicou recentemente que continua a anunciar atualizações periódicas contra o conteúdo de baixa qualidade para manter a precisão dos seus algoritmos.
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New York Times: Google Just Made It Easier for Campaigns to Send You Fund-Raising Emails. This link goes to a gift article. “Google quietly rolled out a new program on Monday that will allow candidates, political parties and political action committees to more easily bypass Gmail’s spam filter and send fund-raising appeals to the inboxes of the company’s many millions of email users.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/19/new-york-times-google-just-made-it-easier-for-campaigns-to-send-you-fund-raising-emails/ -
I have just created a fake "Our Team" page on one of my sites that has fake bios for an executive team, but lists emails captured from the most recent attempts to spam my contact form.
This means that web scrapers that are harvesting email addresses to spam will wind up spamming the accounts that tried to spam me.
I am amused.
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Well, this was a new one. I'm used to begging-for-donations texts from various Democrats, which I don't even bother to read before blocking their numbers. But then there's this one that just came in. Somehow I doubt it's even from the GOP although I guess it could be. Or is it just some kind of scam?
Doesn't really matter; I blocked the number and reported as spam. (I don't think reporting as spam really does much, but I don't think it can hurt.)
