August 9, 2008
I saw your profile today
New spammer approach:How are you today .my name is miss Juliet from Africa i saw your profile today(www.edbrill.com) and become very interested .so please it is urgent that you have to contact me immediately through above email id so that i will tell you my mind and give you my picture.Congratulations to all the edbrill.com readers who interested miss Juliet today.
Location: Highland Park, IL USA
Can she tell me her picture and give me her mind instead?
That tramp! I thought what we had was special!
on 8/9/2008 5:07:55 PM - http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/IT-collaboration-technology-blog/
Dear mr BRILL
I have 1myllion dollars(US) and you only need to give me your banks details,logon detail and pass-words and you can have it all.
I am an orfan
Dr Ignasius Loopaper (miss)
on 8/9/2008 5:10:07 PM -
Snooze you lose Suckers, I already sent her $4000 and she will soon be my wife!
Curt
After thinking about this overnight, I am somewhat concerned...because the Dominoblog template is supposed to obscure e-mail addresses of commenters. Obviously, someone was able to harvest at least some of them. May have to rethink template or design here.
Simply look at the source.
____javascript:dxMail('nathan.freeman','lotus911.com')______
Hi Ed - maybe just don't include them on the site (email links) - do you need to publish them? After all, if you do link to the email addresses the data has to be present in some form (even in the template obscured fashion - which just stops obvious harvesting but does not stop people manually looking). Will talk to you monday if you are around - its only configuration to include/exclude this.
on 8/11/2008 6:37:05 AM -
She is real she was temping in our offices a few weeks ago, we had to get security to remove her after she started going a bit weird and getting too personal, I was scared !
Be on the lookout, your department might be next.........
on 8/11/2008 8:06:17 AM -
@2 - Does she have a twin sister?
on 8/11/2008 8:48:50 AM -
@ed, Have you changed your opinion since Jan 2007 { Link } ?
My recollection from that time was that you thought that spam was inevitable, so there's no point trying to hide addresses.
@10 I still believe that, but I don't think I should force my opinion onto edbrill.com readers. I've had the e-mail addresses removed from public view... they will still be required for a valid comment post.
on 8/11/2008 11:11:58 AM -
I think the algorithm for breaking the addresses up into chunks was a little simplistic. The parts should have been swapped around, and perhaps randomized, with a key to the correct order. Something like
javascript:HideMail(3124,'own','e1b','wbr','org')
where the digits tell the script which order to assemble the parts in.
None of this does any good against paying people is developing online nations pennies per address manually harvested, much like they are doing with CAPTCHAs.
Since I haven't seen this, I wonder if "Juliet" is harvesting from the comments. I'm not you top commenter, but I do so fairly often. Either that, or the spam is getting blocked by the Spamhaus Zen RBL. Anything else would end up in my spam filter and I haven't seen it.
Nathan T. Freeman on 8/9/2008 5:02:50 PM - http://nathan.lotus911.com