No, I am not talking about the tasty dinner treat that I often had as a kid. What I am talking about is my least favorite subject. I really dislike spam (the email kind) due to the fact that I had to remove my Internet domain name from the spam blacklist. To this day, some people are still not receiving my emails from my business domain. I have since taken care of the problem and it is just a matter of time before all of the ISPs have their databases updated.

MP3s

The latest message was from an unknown source that had an attached mp3 file labeled "ll_coolj". I like LL so I gave it a listen. To my surprise it was the latest insider stock information. Right on! Not really. Generally there are people out there that will try to sway the market for meaningless stocks. I am sure that you have received some of those emails.

Calendar Events

Recently while checking my schedule I ran across an event that looked unfamiliar to me. As I opened it up, it appeared to be another form of spam. It was an event that had conveniently placed itself onto my calendar. After researching and reading about it in a magazine, I learned that this form of spam is becoming more popular as well. For those of you that use Google Calendar, there is a setting that allows only events that have been responded to the ability to maske their way onto your schedule. You can find this setting in the settings tab near the bottom of the general settings:

Anyhow, just thought that I would let you guys know. They are harmless until someone figures out how to launch a virus in an mp3 file. Here are some resources that will help you to report spam.

http://www.spamcop.net/
http://www.ftc.gov/spam/