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Have you been wondering why the list of imaginary friends at nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.sh has been expanding quicker than usual this week?

It's because I found another batch of old logs that are now getting the more thorough treatment (also see nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_ye or tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eig) #spamd #greytrapping #spam #cybercrime #openbsd

nxdomain.nobsdly.net - A traplist collected by Peter Hansteen
I am using Google Classroom, and Gmail is marking all email notifications from my Google classroom as spam. It's email generated by one Google product going into another Google product. What on earth is happening to flag the notification as spam?

#Google #GoogleClassroom #Gmail #spam #MonopolistsDontInnovate

This post is not an invitation to scold me for using Google products or to suggest alternatives. It is also not a request for technical support.

Oof. Just had to mark #GeorgiaPublicBroadcasting as #SPAM. They sent me an Email urging me to donate and there was no unsubscribe link. Problem is I haven't lived in Georgia in over two years and I canclled my recurring donations and informed them I was moving out of State two years ago.

Sorry guys, but it's been two long years!

"More than three years ago, noyb had filed a complaint against Google for sending unsolicited advertising emails directly to the inboxes of Gmail users. Contrary to EU law, the company never asked the people concerned for their consent. That's how the competent data protection authority sees it, too: Today, the CNIL has issued a decision siding with noyb – and fined Google €325 million."

noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-french-dpa

noyb.eunoyb WIN: French DPA fines Google €325 million for “Spam Emails” in GmailThe CNIL fined Google €325 million for creating spam emails in Gmail
#EU#France#Google

Via #LLRX @psuPete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, Aug 30, 2025 5 highlights from this week: Meta might B secretly scanning your phone’s camera roll - how to check & turn it off; Shadow IT Is Expanding Your Attack Surface. Here’s Proof; ScamAgent shows how #AI could power next wave of scam calls; #FEMA now requires disaster victims 2 have an email address; and the FCC is Cracking Down on Robo Callers Blocking 1,200 Phone Providers Over #Spam Calls llrx.com/2025/08/pete-recommen

How does anyone shut up Audible's predatory marketing emails?

"This email was sent to xyz@blablabla.com. We respect your privacy. You may from Audible promotional emails at any time."

You can checkout anytime but you can never leave.

I saw something disturbing this morning.
One of my clients showed me an email. They use Gmail for their emails (on their own domain) and download them locally.
The email officially came from their company president, giving the purchasing department orders to immediately pay an invoice of around €20,000 to a new supplier in the UK. It included all the details and had the invoice attached as a PDF.

The worrying part is that the style and tone of the writing were exactly like their president's. However, the sender's address, while using the correct name, was a generic Gmail account. This immediately raised a red flag for the purchasing department, and they didn't fall for it. It was also easy for them to check because the president was in their office at that very moment.

Looking at the sender's address, it would have been simple for anyone to figure out what was happening, but many people don't.
The accuracy with which they (likely using an LLM) recreated the president's writing style is truly concerning.

Questo SCUDO TOTALE contro le robocall funziona alla grande.

Mi è appena arrivata una chiamata che ha fatto partire un messaggio e dopo tre parole lo ha coperto con un altro.

Mi immagino i robottini che sgomitano davanti alla cornetta per parlare: IO IO IOIOIO FAI SPAMMARE ME! SCEGLI ME!

🤖

Oooo, this is a good spam call. Everyone has Comcast, and lots of people have a "discounted" rate for a period. The recorded voice sounded like a Comcast message. There are lots of reasons to disbelieve it, but I could still see a lot of people falling for this one.

Nur falls mal wieder Leute Fragen, warum man die Instanz Mastodon,social immer mal wieder vom Fediverse trennen muss.

Es ist und bleibt eine schlecht gemangete Instanz und sorgt im ganzen fediverse für Arbeit und anfeindungen, wegen der unbeliebten Meinung, das das ja nicht schlimm ist mit der Instanz.
Manche sind in ihrer Entscheidung gegen diese Instanz ganz einfach nur Konsequent.

#Fediverse #mastodon #Spam

RE:
https://missocial.de/objects/7b2a4035-1968-b6e7-cc6c-c2d998337788

Stündlich muss man mittlerweile durch seine Instanz gehen und die ganzen #Spam Beiträge löschen. Auch wenn die Accounts irgendwann auf deren Instanz gesperrt werden - die ganzen zahlreichen Beiträge jedes einzelnen Spam-Accounts sind ja trotzdem noch auf jeder Instanz vorhanden und werden scheinbar nicht zurückgezogen.

Mittlerweile sind es nun seit Freitag, 29.08.2025, also seit wenigen Tagen, schon 32 Spam-Accounts, die ich auf meiner Instanz finden konnte. Auf dem Bild sind 35 Accounts zu sehen, die Differenz ist noch aus "Nicole"-Zeiten.

Jeder einzelne Spam-Account verbreitet zahlreiche Post bzw. Kommentare. Alleine auf meiner Instanz sind das mehrere hunderte.

Wer auch immer noch meint, das bisschen Spam wäre doch kein Problem - doch. Ist es. Nicht nur, dass unnötig Ressourcen verschwendet werden durch so einen Schwachsinn, hier fällt auch Zeit an, die man für wichtigere Dinge nutzen könnte.

Für die Statistiker: 28 Accounts davon sind von mastodon.social.


#Spam, #Fediverse, #Phising