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Aurin Azadî<p>Neue Spam-Variante: Ich sei für einen Preis in UK nominiert worden, für „Sustainability in Manufacturing“. Und ich soll klicken, ob ich die Nominierung annehmen oder ablehnen will. Die Domain sieht im ersten Moment seriös aus, auch wenn sie bei GoDaddy registriert ist. </p><p>Natürlich hat man da nix gewonnen, die wollen nur Daten abgreifen 🙂 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spam</span></a></p>
Wilfried Klaebe<p>»Rechnung: Nicht bezahlter Parkvorgang«. Yeah. Right. Da hab ich schon bessere Versuche gesehen.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spam</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>The AI spammers are really upping their game. I've been hit by probably the same spammer for a while now, trying to sell me followers on various social medias. Before they were pretty generic, just obviously analysing some posts and trying to figure out what I posted about. This backfired often in funny ways when they congratulated me for building pinball machines or something. But this new one was pretty interesting:</p><p>"Your posts are always worth reading. Your pinball repair logs are super interesting! I'm fascinated by the detective work you do to figure out what's wrong with those machines. The Baywatch pontoon discovery was really cool."</p><p>Pontoon discovery? Oh, now they refer to specific posts, even though they have no idea what they're about. I can see folks starting to believe these are mails written by real people.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spam</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/aispam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aispam</span></a></p>
Engineering Archive<p>The challenge of AI slop for preprint servers.</p><p><a href="https://blog.engrxiv.org/2025/08/ai-slop" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.engrxiv.org/2025/08/ai-sl</span><span class="invisible">op</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Preprints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Preprints</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Preprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Preprint</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spam</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AIslop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIslop</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
Bradalot “:verified:”<p>Cool trick for reducing spam calls: Use a VoIP number and a softphone app on your mobile phone, instead of the phone's real mobile number.</p><ol><li><p>Pick your VoIP number so it is in some random far-away small-town area code (like Sandusky, unless you live in Sandusky). Share only that number as your mobile phone number. </p></li><li><p>Use the VoIP service facility to block incoming calls by area code, and block incoming calls from the Sandusky area code. They are spammers trying to seem local to. You don't know anyone in Sandusky.</p></li><li><p>Use the VoIP service facility to present a phone tree to callers ("For English, press 1. For Klingon, press 2.", where both choices just ring your mobile softphone. Spammers mostly don't press buttons.</p></li><li><p>(optional) Block incoming calls on the phone's SIM number (either using Do Not Disturb, or call-forwarding to a nonexistent number).</p></li></ol><p>Many major VoIP providers (I like <a href="https://voip.ms" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">VoIP.ms</a>) provide area-code blocking, phone trees, and SMS. </p><p>By using a softphone app (I like <a href="https://acrobits.net/sip-client-ios-android/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Acrobits</a>), the VoIP number on the mobile device works fine in place of the device's phone app. I never use my phone's actual phone number. In fact, if I have a data-only SIM or eSIM (say, when traveling), that is enough. </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Mobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mobile</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spam</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/VoIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoIP</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ProTips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProTips</span></a></p>

CyberScoop: FCC removes 1,200 voice providers from telephone networks in major robocall crackdown. “The Federal Communications Commission announced Monday it has blocked more than 1,200 voice service providers from having access to the country’s phone network for failing to comply with anti-robocall regulations, marking the agency’s largest enforcement action against companies that […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/26/cyberscoop-fcc-removes-1200-voice-providers-from-telephone-networks-in-major-robocall-crackdown/

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The word "spam" meaning to flood a place with unwanted messages comes from a carnist joke made by #MontyPython in which the capitalist product #Spam is mythologized as an archetypal unwanted worthless repetition. A murder victims body reduced to a literal throw-away joke depicting their mangled corpse as nothing more than a nuisance.The company that killed them "Spam company" is remembered more readily than the victim #speciesism #carnism

It feels like I've been finding "Bosnian Pyramids" and "Castex Tigre" messages in my #spam folder for the best part of three decades. Feels like the "I broke into your computer and caught you watching porn" spams have all but replaced the dick-pills spams.

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Email from @bellnet.ca, URL points to

hxxps:// gmhprimellc dot com

Dear Customer,
We would be closing your Runbox account if not upgraded,
Tap below and sign-in to get a more organized mailbox to avoid losing incoming messages.
UPGRADE TO NEWEST VERSION
Sincerely,
© 2025 Runbox Communications Inc.

The sheer amount of #spam I get on other social networks is really unbelievable. How are basic filters not just killing these “exclusive cryptocurrency club” invites constantly flowing?

Even #Gmail is stuffed with this crap… at least it normally stays in the junk folder. But the origin/sender is often some crazy nonsense junk bot user from Gmail… how is #Google so bad at this?

New audacious scam : Claims to be an invite to a "Team meeting" for a whole organization in MS Teams. Payload links don't go to MS, but rather to the CloudFlare-obfuscated ctrk.klclick3.com which redirects to eclicks.chantersselfstorage.co.uk which doesn't answer & may be a failed(?) DNS hijacking; the main domain looks like a UK business,while their web and mail is at HostGator in FL-US but the 'eclicks' hostname resolves to an IP allocated to 'cheapyhost" in Nigeria.