Sugar-coated spam

Bugs are the second nature of programming life. Spam are the second nature of the web networked life, which has evolved into an essential part of everyone's life.

On any given day, I would receive about 100 spamming emails. Some have something to sell, ranging from software to drugs,; some have dating advice to offer; others, I do not know what others are about. Most of them go straight into my spam box. 2000 is the number of emails constantly sitting in my spamming box. The most confunding ones are emails sending from myself and to myself.

What??

The original Spam (a contraction of "spiced ham") is a type of fast food in the Second World War for G.I.s. Now it is the official terms for the onslaught of mass, fraudulent, often commercial emails.

It is said there are 2 millions emails sending out every second. It has increased tenfold in the past three years, as a result of commerianl spamming programs/or virus that infected millions of computers (botnets).

Blogs are not exempted from spams, dressed as comments, even when comments are not allowed (as in my case). Real comments in my blog are far and few, however, there is no lack of sweet spamming comments.

Like the ones I received this moring. It starts with:

Great insigt!

Or

I love your work!

Or

Good!

With those exburent comments tags along a string of references to a string of porn sites.

Updates

Larger Prey Are Targets of Phishing  

Just read on the news about an e-mail scam spam.

"Thousands of high-ranking executives across the country have been receiving e-mail messages this week that appear to be official subpoenas from the United States District Court in San Diego. Each message includes the executive’s name, company and phone number, and commands the recipient to appear before a grand jury in a civil case. "

Sometimes it pays not to be a CEO or something.