20111001 “Unsolicited letters in the 1800s”, available for the Kindle

More good news: I just had my Unsolicited letters in the 1800s book published in Amazon! Which means you can get your own ebook copy almost instantly, instead of having to wait for the print edition to be delivered to your home. Since it’s got a lot of images, it weighs quite a lot for [...]

20110408 Unsolicited letters in the 1800s

A playful exercise containing a series of real 21st century spam e-mails received by the author and literally transcribed into paper while maintaining the ‘spam look’ aesthetics and, at the same time, embracing the ‘analog glitches’ such as ink stains or smearing that are the unavoidable consequence of using traditional media. So what’s that, you’ll [...]

20090926 Sky spam

I have pretty much reduced my physical communications (i.e. letters) to nothing. My bank doesn’t send me extracts of the operations that I am already aware of –because I check them online. My phone company doesn’t send me a physical invoice. Same for the internet provider. Except there are still companies like Sky who keep [...]

20090724 Nigerian scams go further

This time they have been really creative. What an amazing story to start the day! The interesting technical detail is that it seems they are using the site of a certain Bonnie Langford (Wikipedia says she’s an actress and entertainer) to propel their spam into the UK, as I see by looking at the headers: [...]

20081219 The irony of spam

As soon as I posted yesterday’s analysis on eBay scams, I began to get a lot of pingbacks from quite suspiciously looking websites, with domains like ebayblog.info, ebay4you.info, etc… all of them using the .info TLD, which is one of the most commonly used by spammers as far as I have seen. So it seems [...]