Hi there! You’ve possibly been sent an email from a chap called Sean which contains a link to this web page. Let me explain. I received your email. Your email has been successfully delivered to Sean Patrick Payne. If that’s who you were aiming to send it to, then congratulations!…
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January 7, 2017 at 11:39 am | Real Life, Technology | No comment
Tags: Please just check what bloody email address you have typed before clicking send, spam
Last year I posited that, amongst all the terrible Engrish and awful crap that spambots generated, some of it was genuinely poetic. Since then I’ve noticed another trend from spambots – I’ve received emails and I’ve seen comments that look like they’ve been scraped completely out of context from a…
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October 4, 2014 at 12:00 pm | Spammers, Technology | No comment
Tags: creepypasta, spam, spambots
When you run a WordPress-based blog (like this), you have to take measures to ensure that the people commenting are actually people. There are these clever programs that scamper about the web looking for WordPress sites to leave spam comments on. Then, once you’ve got those covered, you have to…
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January 24, 2013 at 8:38 pm | Spammers, Technology | 4 comments
Tags: poetry, search engine optimisation, spam, spambots
