Kenya Allmond (me)

My Twitter account has been public for about one month.  During this time, I’ve seen several of my tweets retweeted by accounts unknown to me.  After looking at the Twitter profiles, I figured out that these were automatic retweets based on a word or phase in the original message.  A few weeks ago I was [...]

I received this phishing email today.  It probably got through Yahoo’s spam filter because it is image spam.   Clicking on the image in the email, takes you  to some site in Italy. I thought it interesting that it targets customers of the State Department Federal Credit Union.  Perhaps the scammers are targeting this institution because [...]

Today I received my second email from the John McCain campaign though I’ve never signed up to receive such emails.  I’ve had this particular email account for 8-10 years and I use it to receive emails from tech sites such as CNet/TechRepublic and E-Commerce Times.  I’ve probably been subscribed to these emails for that long [...]

This is hilarious so I had to post it. It appears that spammers are resorting to ASCII art to avoid getting caught by spam filters. What year is it again? Click on the image to view the actual text. Is this a new trend for spam or is this an isolated incident? Is this because [...]

When I was young (and sometimes now) I insisted on not filling in the Mr./Mrs./Ms./Miss check box on forms. “They don’t need to know all that,” I insisted. Apparently when you don’t fill that in it is assumed that you are male. Interestingly this reminds me of a former job when I would be working [...]