The peoplefinders Scam
viagra, nigerian scams, Obama paychecks, click here to check you bank account....all the good stuff flows through my inbox and spam folder. I'm sometimes having a bit of fun going through those messages, figuring out a stupid trick or two, staying up to date with "what's hot" in spam-land because spam is some sort of stock exchange trading on people fears, greed, poverty and...good old stupidity. Spammers then are some sort of stock brokers. Stupid ones, granted, but maybe efficient on a very large scale: those dudes can't even target the proper country! I know, it doesn't fit their business model - else they'd join IAB. One thing kept bugging me: an increasing number of messages with little bits of misdirected "personal" touches in them: "Dear Brenda" or "Dear Manouchehr" over and over again in my inbox. My first reaction was simple: WTF are Breanda and Manouchehr and why do they use my email address to subscribe to all k
