IT Security Notes

I received a funny death threat email this morning, as much as death threats can be funny in the first place. It appeared straight away to be some sort of scam, but just to be sure and to have a good laugh, I looked a bit at the email headers...

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Posted by Fabrice A. Marie at 10:23 PM | Permalink

A scam letter is circuclating in Singapore telling potential victims of ATM money snatching how to call the police automatically. How naive people can be...

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Posted by Fabrice A. Marie at 12:34 AM | Permalink

SpamCop is great. You should subscribe, it's worth it and it's for a worthy cause. However, it's a real pain to report 100 spam messages at a time. We propose here a quick Perl script that processes your SpamCop queue.

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Posted by Fabrice A. Marie at 5:15 PM | Permalink