Phases

I always find it interesting how spam comes in subject waves. I don’t know if it’s separate scam artists moving along in a pack from one rip-off to another, or if it’s a sign of a single scammer using multiple spam routes to get his/her message out.

Anyway, I suddenly have a ton of message from different sources offering me Tylenol 3 with Codeine (or “Codeine Tylenol3,” as they all say, increasnig the likelihood of it being the second alternative above). It’s enough to give me a head-ache, I’ll tell you …

Our company finally put in a new spam filter, CipherTrust’s IronMail. It’s cut the first-thing-in-the-morning spam count from 80 to about 10, so that’s good.