Sunday, February 12, 2006
This site went down sometime last week, with a nasty notice saying basically that he account was in arrears.
I found this odd because in the past I usually had a warning about any such eventuality well ahead of time by my Web hosting company of choice, Web Raided.
So I went digging through my emails. Nothing in my Inbox. Then I went to the Junk Email folder, and did a search on the name of the firm. Sure enough, there was an email from the week before saying that my previous credit card had expired and could I please send them updated account info soonest. Since this sort of thing sounds like a standard line from a spammer/phisher, Rogers (yes, I am still using them for now) labeled it as "Bulk" and it went straight into my spam folder, along with about a thousand offers to sell me Viagra, Cialis, the occasional Nigerian 901 scam and more frequent phishing scams for banks I have never used. A classic case of a "false positive".
I have sent them my recent credit card info so this problem should be solved soon. But it underlines how the normal traffic of email has been adversely affected by the mounds and mounds of spam out there.
A pox on all spammers and on those idiots who keep them in business.
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