Comments on: Bloggers Under Attack from German Spammers?

By: Spencer Snyder

Spencer Snyder — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:38:58 +0000

I use facebook but till I not get any message of this kind and if I will get any message of this kind I will ignore that.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 16 May 2005 18:22:29 +0000

I'm lucky enough I haven't gotten any in my Gmail or other addresses either, at least none that got passed their spam filters. News.com has a story up on it this morning. Definitely caused by the Sober worm. Sounds like a doozy.

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Mon, 16 May 2005 14:18:47 +0000

Thank goodness for my spam blocker, I’ve gotten quite a bit of the emails. Annoying but otherwise seemingly harmless.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 16 May 2005 13:18:28 +0000

Same here gents, except I only got one e-mail but deleted that one. I tend to stay away from POP3 for this very reason and stick with the web mail clients til I can really secure my address books and etc.

By: Martin Terre Blanche

Martin Terre Blanche — Mon, 16 May 2005 12:52:28 +0000

I’ve also had several to my work e-mail (including bounced e-mails sent to long lists of people supposedly from me) but haven’t had any to my gmail address.

By: Nicole Simon

Nicole Simon — Mon, 16 May 2005 10:32:04 +0000

Darren, I suspect perhaps you are in the address book of some people being under attack by that bots. And yes, it is nazi email spam – we have some local elections in the biggest provence coming up, that is why they think they started it. Be prepared next year, when we have national elections :(

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 16 May 2005 10:30:06 +0000

I noticed a few on my email accounts over the last couple of days but my ISP seems to have written a rule or two and stopped them according to support forums

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 16 May 2005 07:57:46 +0000

Not sure if they’re German or not – anything that gets through my spam filters from dubious sounding people (why do spammers think we’d read mail from people called Curlews C. Postlude or Plainclothesmen K. Commit anyway) is now almost auto-filtered by my brain. Being good at word puzzles anyway I know all the variations on most chemicals and pills. I only get about 20 spam emails a day. Only… :)

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 16 May 2005 07:26:55 +0000

About a week ago my Hotmail account contained serveral dozents of mails each day with various german topics and a zip to sum up 73kb for each email – sober said hello…

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 16 May 2005 05:15:31 +0000

I don’t think it is blog related email spam as I’ve only received it to my non-blog business domains and have received none to my personal email addy which is where it would go to for me if it was linked to blogging.

By: eckes

eckes — Mon, 16 May 2005 05:10:51 +0000

It is a Nazi Spam caused by an Worm called Sober.q

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 16 May 2005 04:25:52 +0000

actually its not comment spam its email spam…

By: nickel

nickel — Mon, 16 May 2005 03:29:51 +0000

I’ve gotten some of these myself today.
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http://www.fivecentnickel.com/

By: James Farmer

James Farmer — Mon, 16 May 2005 02:51:41 +0000

Hasn’t got through Spaminator to me yet… a couple of froiends have been complaining about it though…