November 24, 2007 – 6:50 pm

My blog has just passed a milestone… over 100,000 spam comments. Thanks to Akismet only a small percentage actually make it to a real comment (after which I whack it myself). Thanks to all the spammers and internet crooks, from Brazil to Russia to Nigeria, who made this day possible.

I have gotten a lot of 419 spam lately… that is jargon for what is called advanced fee fraud and most of us have seen it in one form or another. The most infamous example is the email spam coming from a purported son of a deposed Nigerian warlord who needs your help in [...]