ONAT LOPERA

I had been receiving a great number of spam lately, lucky me, and not only on my email.

Website. If it isn?t for Wordpress‘ first attempt to block (or in my case moderate) comment spam, the site would be showing a great amount of non-sense comments filled with useless links. I’m deciding between getting a spam blocker or just setting all comments with links up for moderation, I don’t mind setting about 15-25 comments as spam (2 clicks and they’re all gone). I saved all the links from the comment spam, I’ll deal with them later.

E-mail. Gmail have been great if not perfect to me, I sometimes even forget I have a Y! Mail to check, but the number of spam I have been receiving had doubled since last week. I know they can be dealt with just a few clicks (like above) but it’s always the same damn email every time. It annoys me every time I see that “SPAM” link on bold with a number beside it. Is Gmail going soft on spam?

Mobile Phone. Bots are getting wiser than ever. Since the new Y! Messenger came and they finally recognized my number as compatible to their mobile mode, I always login to my mobile (hence the “I’m on SMS mode.”) every time I logout. But like what I said, those damn bots are good! It also started last week, some time in the afternoon; I received some messages through YM from someone I don’t know asking if I’m online and all the small chitchat. I ignored it, being the misunderstood but self-confessed snob that I am, and I was doing something when it arrived so I moved the message to the archive, my mobile lifeline. Later that day, I did a profile check and apparently she’s from US, likes biking, hiking, club hopping and “having fun”, and she have a website where you can view her webcam. It had “bot” written all over it. I was impressed at first, bots PM-ing even when you’re on SMS-mode, but the second day, it became annoying. From then, I stopped logging in to my mobile to avoid it all. And add to that the spam that my carrier sends. Smart, stop it!

Spam everywhere!