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Message of the Day – A Tee Shirt

November 19, 2012 By: Cal Skinner Category: Message of the Day, Spam, T-Shirt, Tee Shirt

We have a computer-related T-shirt today.

It’s about spam and was found at SeaWorld.

“Spam” is all this tee shirt says.

A New Spam Warning

August 20, 2012 By: Cal Skinner Category: email, Scam, Scotland, Spam

Gmail has filtered out most of the spam emails I used to get.

What comes now is mainly from friends’ hacked accounts.

Take a look at the warning that came along with a request that I help someone get home from Scotland.

Look at the warning that has been inserted in this spam email.

Message of the Day – Spam

July 02, 2010 By: Cal Skinner Category: Barracuda, Black Hills, Buffalo, Buffalo Grove, Message of the Day, Spam

"EAT SPAM" says the tee shirt.This could have been about the Spam factory on the way to South Dakota, but I was asleep last summer when we took that route to the Black Hills and Yellowstone.

Instead, it’s an advertising gimmick for the software company Barracuda.

Do you think there really were buffalo in Buffalo Grove? We found these crossing the highway in South Dakota's Black Hills.

I saw the tee shirt at a swim meet at Buffalo Grove High School.

First Two IRS Refund Spam Scams Arrive

March 17, 2008 By: Cal Skinner Category: IRS, Scam, Spam

Just heard a story on the radio Saturday about Federal tax scam emails and as of Sunday, two had already arrived.

One came the very day of the story. Here it is:

The second came late Sunday afternoon:

So, how many people will be stupid enough to provide personal identifying information to such scammers?

Click to enlarge the emails, if you want to read them.

First Two IRS Refund Spam Scams Arrive

March 17, 2008 By: Cal Skinner Category: IRS, Scam, Spam

Just heard a story on the radio Saturday about Federal tax scam emails and as of Sunday, two had already arrived.

One came the very day of the story. Here it is:

The second came late Sunday afternoon:

So, how many people will be stupid enough to provide personal identifying information to such scammers?

Click to enlarge the emails, if you want to read them.

Message of the Day – A License Plate

March 12, 2008 By: Cal Skinner Category: License Plate, Message of the Day, Michael Millette, Prescriptions, Spam

SPAMIAM

is on the license plate that is today’s “Message of the Day.” Looks like it was taken a long time ago. (So many messages, so little time.)

If the man were not in federal prison for sending spam to millions of people, I might think the car belonged to Crystal Lake’s jailed doctor Michael Millette.

Think of how many spam messages he had to send out to write the 62 million prescriptions for Schedule III and Schedule IV dosage units.

Message of the Day – A License Plate

March 12, 2008 By: Cal Skinner Category: License Plate, Message of the Day, Michael Millette, Prescriptions, Spam

SPAMIAM

is on the license plate that is today’s “Message of the Day.” Looks like it was taken a long time ago. (So many messages, so little time.)

If the man were not in federal prison for sending spam to millions of people, I might think the car belonged to Crystal Lake’s jailed doctor Michael Millette.

Think of how many spam messages he had to send out to write the 62 million prescriptions for Schedule III and Schedule IV dosage units.