Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Spam, Spam, Everywhere There's Spam

For some reason, my Yahoo! inbox has been bombarded with spam over the last few days. Apparently, I've won a lot of free Dell laptops that I didn't even know I was in the running for. There are also a lot of schools that would like me to apply to their nursing, criminal justice, and massage schools. I didn't realize I had such an aptitude for these things, but perhaps there's some hidden talent within that I didn't know about. After all, I didn't realize that a career in libraries was for me.

Up until now, Yahoo! has been really good about restricting spam, and for a while, even my spam folder was kept pretty trim. I don't know what happened that would allow so much spam to be getting past the filter. My online activities for the last few weeks have been much less than usual, and I haven't been visiting any sights that I didn't frequent before. Maybe those clever spammers have found a way to get past the precautions that were already in place. Hopefully it will all clear itself up.

5 comments:

  1. Matt, I've seen the same thing with my Yahoo email.

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  2. At least it's not just me then.

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  3. But do you have spam spam bacon and spam?

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  4. I like spam. Sliced real thin and fried crispy. Oh yeah

    But I don't like virtural junk mail that is to say jmail

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  5. I've been getting more spam through my filters lately too - especially spam addressed to Ellie. Who the heck is Ellie?

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