Text message spam is annoying as hell

A few months ago I wrote about how I unplugged my home landline phone because of all the junk calls I was getting. At the time, I mentioned that every form of electronic communications has been ruined by marketers and scammers.
Lately I’ve noticed an increase in spam and phishing texts on my mobile phone. They’re super annoying because you have to look at them to see if someone you know is trying to reach you.
I wonder if any cellular phone service is better at blocking these messages than others. That’s something that might get me to switch carriers, if the situation worsens.
The spam text messages fall into a few categories.
First, there are the fake delivery service texts supposedly from UPS Ground. Then, there are purported texts from Amazon contacting you about a refund.
I’ve also received fake traffic ticket texts that threaten to suspend my driving privileges and vehicle registration.
The most common type of spam texts I receive are recruiting messages. They say they’ve found my resume online and that I’d be perfect for a job they’re offering. It’s usually a remote position doing miscellaneous things like helping Temu merchants with product reviews.
The oddest ones are short messages that try to engage you. They’ll say things like “hello” or “all good?”
I even got a supposed text from Donald Trump Jr. I couldn’t delete that one fast enough.

Funny spam emails that prey on male insecurities

Occasionally I like to check out the spam email folder of my Yahoo Mail account to see what kind of junk solicitations I’m receiving.
There’s the usual weight loss gimmicks, credit report pitches and online dating services. But the ones I find entertaining are those for penis enlargement and male sexual performance pills.
These emails prey on male insecurities and promise to give guys the size and stamina of a porn star.
Some ads try to look professional. One product, Nitroxin, uses retired porn actress Bree Olson as a spokesperson. The ad says “11,189 men (have) tried Nitroxin already.” That’s oddly specific.
It claims its “male enhancement supplements and creams” can “increase size & girth” and let men “last longer during sex.”
The Better Business Bureau of New York City gives Nitroxin Products a letter grade of F based on 32 consumer complaints in the past three years.

Another product, Extenze, is endorsed by pro football coach and TV commentator Jimmy Johnson. (How hard up for cash are you, Jimmy?) It’s described as a male sexual performance enhancement product. A Wikipedia article details the many legal actions, criticisms and controversy about the company and its product.
Yet another product, Vydox, is promoted by PGA golfers Brian Gay and Mark Calcavecchia, according to spam emails. Vydox has been the subject of numerous consumer complaints, according to Scambook. The BBB of Central Georgia gives Vydox maker Premium Nutraceuticals a D- grade, based on 225 complaints over the last three years.
Other penis enlargement and male sex performance pill makers are even more shady. They send out emails with bad grammar and poor English with big come-ons. These are the ones with the most unintentionally funny spam ads.
Here are some of their recent pitches:

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The TV used to be her favorite night program, now she just stares at my new found man meat.

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Viagra, luxury watch and weight loss pitches still flooding e-mail inboxes. (Jan. 18, 2009)

Spam e-mail still a booming business despite the current recession. (March 31, 2009)

Penis enlargement pill e-mails good for a laugh. (Feb. 11, 2011)

Funny penis enlargement e-mail pitches. (Oct. 18, 2013)

Funny penis enlargement e-mail pitches

Like most people, I get a lot of spam email. Thankfully, modern spam filters used by Yahoo, Google and others dump this junk into a spam folder. These emails include mostly shady promotions for mortgage refinancing, fake Rolex watches, work-from-home scams and hookup services to find “local sluts.”
They also include pitches for products claiming to enlarge penises. I find these e-mails funny because they shamelessly exploit men’s insecurities, make wild sex claims and are written in poor English.
What follows is a sampling of e-mail pitches I’ve found in my spam folders, including misspellings.

A babe-filled life awaits you
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Your lady will be clamoring to copulate with you every night

Smell sweeter below the belt
Get all the bed action you have ever dreamed of with your brand new pecker.

So hard you can break an egg
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I didnt know a simple herbal remedy like this could make my life wonderful again.

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She will be yearning to lie in bed with you every night

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Promo enlargement
I did not dare to date girls until I managed to upsize my little pecker.

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Photos: T-shirt reading “My pen is huge.” Singer Morrissey and “Penis mightier than the sword” play on words.

Penis enlargement pill e-mails good for a laugh

Russia’s biggest export must be penis enlargement pills, judging from the spam e-mail I receive.
These e-mails prey on male insecurities by promising to increase a man’s penis size. If these pills actually worked, the scientists who invented them would get a Nobel Prize. But of course, they don’t. (See WebMD articles here and here.)
But the e-mails are good for a laugh for their poor English, ridiculous claims and bold promises.
Most of them include websites with the suffix “.ru,” which is the country code for Russia.
Here are some of the pitches I’ve received in recent weeks:

a guy with an enlarged penis will enjoy mind-blowing sex!

Just like millions of other men out there, you desire that your penis is a few more inches longer.
Having a bigger weapon can definitely boost one’s ego because he knows he can impress any woman he meets.
Moreover, a guy with an enlarged penis will enjoy mind-blowing sex!

Are you searching for ways to enhance the size of your penis or make your erections stronger?

Be a REAL-MAN to your girl (add 3 inches more)

If you want to enlarge penis size, here's the best solution.

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I was once in your shoes. I was very insecure about my size from an early age. I won't disclose exactly how small I was but let’s just say I was definitely below average. This was in high school and I thought to myself maybe I'd still have some time to enlarge penis size naturally.
However, in college and after that I knew that my small size was here to stay. I thought that there was simply nothing I could do and resigned to living with my small size. As you can imagine, this was a huge blow to my confidence.
If you want to enlarge penis size, here's the best solution.

In every man's mind there is a want to enlarge his penis. Many search out ways to do this and sometimes it works and sometimes not.

Are you fed up with size of your manhood? Do you feel inadequate around women and indeed other guys?

In every man's mind there is a want to enlarge his penis. Many search out ways to do this and sometimes it works and sometimes not.
Men equate a larger penis as being more attractive and impressive to the opposite sex. But they don’t always know if increasing their size will decrease or increase the pleasure they derive from sexual intercourse.
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If you’re one of the millions of men with a little penis then you’ve come to the proper place.

If you’re one of the millions of men with a little penis then you’ve come to the proper place.
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Consider the difference between a 7, 8 or 9 inch penis that is thicker and a penis that is 4 to 6 inches and narrower

Consider the difference between a 7, 8 or 9 inch penis that is thicker and a penis that is 4 to 6 inches and narrower.
With a larger penis you penetrate more sensitive areas of the woman. Your longer penis probes deeper searching those special nerve endings. The added width to your penis fills and presses her from side to side to give your partner the most exhilarating sensations.

As for me, I’m more likely to use el Shrinko advertised this month on “Saturday Night Live.”

Taiwanese spammers invade blog comments

Tech-media-tainment is huge in Taiwan, judging from the location of people posting comments on the site.
Since March, I’ve had about a dozen posts in the comments section of the blog that are written in Chinese and link to adult websites in Taiwan. I’ve since deleted them.
As much as I’d love to have people commenting on my articles, these comments are nothing but unwanted commercial advertisements. So they had to go.
I checked out who owns the domain names for the various sites and most belong to the same company in Taipei – Avshow. The company posted links to six of its websites in the comments area of my blog. All were created this year and registered through GoDaddy.com. They include sites like Sexy258.com, 333chat.info and MeiMei-video.com. (“Mei mei” means girlfriend in Chinese.)
Two other adult websites that have spammed the comments section of Tech-media-tainment were registered through GoDaddy.com to Sool Suum of Taipei.
So as much as these businesses want to love me long time, I have to turn them down.

Photo: Screenshot of Taiwanese adult website Sexy258.com, one of several services spamming the comments section on Tech-media-tainment.

Spam e-mail still a booming business despite the current recession

Spammers haven’t taken a break during the recession. Unwanted commercial e-mail, or spam, accounts for 86% of all e-mail traffic, according to Symantec’s March report on the “State of Spam.”
That explains all the penis-enlargement, Viagra, luxury watch and weight-loss e-mail pitches I’m still getting. (Sample ad above.)
The comedy news Web site, Onion News Network, has posted a video that says 90% of spam e-mail comes from a little known Eastern European country called Koy4Goff. (I’ve posted the video on sister site One Stop Video.)
Actually, according to Symantec, the U.S. is the source of 25% of spam e-mail received here. That’s the most of any country. Brazil was second with 9%, followed by India with 5%.

Viagra, luxury watch and weight loss pitches still flooding e-mail inboxes

Unwanted commercial e-mail, or spam, declined significantly after a major spam-hosting service was shut down in early November last year.
Unfortunately, spam volumes have gradually crept back in the last two months, according to Symantec, a maker of Internet security software.
On Nov. 11, multiple network providers shut down access to McColo.com hosted systems, based on abuse complaints. Silicon Valley-based McColo Corp. rented out servers to clients, including spammers. Spam traffic dropped 65% a day after McColo was shut down.
But now spam volumes are back to 80% of their pre-McColo shutdown levels, Symantec says in its January report called “The State of Spam.”
Spam typically accounts for about 80% of e-mail traffic.
Like many Internet users, I’ve got multiple personal e-mail accounts.
My account with Yahoo Mail is for correspondence with family and friends and some business uses. I use my account with Google’s Gmail for commercial e-mails and newsletters. I’ve also got a couple more I use when some outfit wants an e-mail address, but I don’t want to give them a good one.
In my experience, Yahoo does the best job filtering out spam e-mail. I just don’t get that many spam messages in my bulk e-mail folder.
My Gmail account is a different story. I started getting spam right away, even before I started using that e-mail address for anything. Google does a good job directing these messages to a spam folder, but I still see them.
The junk e-mail to my Gmail account falls into three main categories: sexual (Viagra or penis-enlargement sales pitches), luxury watches for cheap, and weight loss cures (endorsed by Oprah Winfrey!).
The high-school boy in me does get a kick out of the subject lines for the penis-enlargement scams. Here are a few:

“Every locker room will envy you”
“So massive it scared her”
“You'll call it Peter the Great”

I also receive pitches to get university degrees based on my “life experience.” Sounds great. “No examination, no books, no study.” Even better. “No one is turned down.” This explains those occasional news stories where a reporter gets a college degree for their dog.
“The more degrees you have the better your chances and prospects in life. That is the way life is. It is a competitive world,” one e-mail states.
Time to buy my MBA.