I received seven copies of two versions of this spam. Plain text, no formatting, no logos. This site lists them as malware delivery devices but doesn't elaborate on the threat. Here they … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2013
Lame spam of the day: Fake BBC news stories
Like most lame spam, this one lacks any formatting or graphics. The tricky part is that it's masquerading as a news story sent to me by a friend, and those typically lack formatting and graphics. Clues that it's fake: I don't know the sender; the sender shows as Wendy Kauffman but the … [Read more...]
On the value of donor database ratings
A colleague forwarded the following email from a vendor and asked how I think a potential buyer should respond. I've redacted the message to anonymize the vendor: Dear ____, I thought you might be interested in a recent analysis of low cost fundraising software, conducted jointly by … [Read more...]
Lame spam of the day: Smoking device
This is as lame as it gets. Plain text, no graphics, the sender name looks suspicious, the recipient name isn't me, there's no subject, and the text is lame. I ran the link in the "click here" line through some online virus scanners and it seems clean, so maybe they're just trying to … [Read more...]
More nonprofit software mergers and acquisitions
Last year the big news in my industry was Blackbaud's acquisition of Convio and the merger/acquisition of Datatel and Sungard Higher Education (now called Ellucian). 2013 is off to a bang with Accel-KKR's acquisition of Sage's Nonprofit Solutions Group and iModules acquisition of Harris … [Read more...]