Published on June 19, 2009 by admin
Going through my gmail spam filter I found the following email. I am so impressed by the boldness of the message. Are people really gullible enough to send a stranger in Nigeria their phone number, address, and driver’s license number?
Dear Customer,
We have been waiting for you to contact us regarding the delivery of your [...]
Tags: Nigeria, phishing, scam, spam
Posted in miscellaneous
Published on August 19, 2008 by admin
A web bot is a virtual robot. Usually it is a program someone has designed to do repetitive tasks on the internet. They can surf the net looking for something specific and then perform some type of action based on what it finds. Google uses web bots to collect data from web sites to [...]
Tags: bot, captcha, Carnegie, digitize, OCR, security, spam
Posted in Free software, New tech
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