In memory of Hannah Arendt

The Google logo today is Hannah Arendt, a legendary woman. (wiki)

We used to work on translating the movie "Hannah Arendt"

Here you find the subtitle in original and Chinese, have fun!

Have you been pwned?

Gmail Alarm!

The Russian hackers published 5 million Gmail accounts with passwords on a website, Bitcoin Security, a popular Russian website devoted to cryptocurrency.
Earlier this week, as many as accounts at Mail.ru and Yandex have already been seen there.

These Gmail account holders are mostly English, Russian and Spanish. 60% of accounts were active. 

If you have any concert, check out if your email is leaked for this case

https://isleaked.com/en

As well as

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

find out if any accounts of you are safe in general :)

Trash Mailer

For a clean mailbox, it's a good way to use a temporary email address to sign up for some "spamming" programs.
I used to use a "for spam" address for online games, buyers, whatever I was suspicious of. After so many years, I had to change them several times, because such kind of mailboxes becomes very full much sooner as you can expect.
Nowadays, the life is easier and more colorful. We can find so called "trash mailer" and create an email address as you wish. Independent. uncomplicated, fast and carefree :)

I found this list of trash mailer domains

http://www.mogelmail.de/

It's nonsense for Marketers to send Emails to those addresses. No one can make money from that, so far I know.
I block all trash mailer domains I can find, what about you?

X-Recruiting

Every time i check into the header of Groupon Newsletters, i have to laugh.
It's so funny to see such a line of X-header

As long as you can figure out how to look up a header of an email, you are qualified to work with Groupon in the technical team.

I don't know how to add an X-header in Rocketman, the self-developed platform by Groupon, for Groupon to send massive number of Emails to all over the world.
However, one thing i still remember, Groupon gave up DOI world wide except in Germany immediately, after the whole deliverability team (re-)united in Chicago. They decided to run their own business and started sending Emails from there.

I am still a big fan of Groupon ;)

Alto is coming!

Alto, provided by AOL comes online. This is a new webmail client. The users can receive, read and filter mails from their multiple email accounts at AOL (of course), Gmail, Yahoo and more.

To the part of filtering. So called "stack", looks alike a Gmail-tab
- can be created, edited or removed by user themselves, to get the overview of their inbox.
- can also be connected with the content of receiving emails, like photos or another attachment.

just tested, I could even check my google calander and get into my google drive. Interesting!

And I am interested in seeing what will happen with Alto and what will the other providers do...

Inkasso spam alarm

It seems somebody sends replica spams with the name of BDIU (Bundesverband Deutscher Inkasso-Unternehmen)

This kind of spams has a subjectsline "Bundesverband Deutscher Inkasso-Unternehmen e.V.", and looks like

Sehr geehrter Kaufer...
leider konnten wir bis heute keinen Zahlungseingang auf unsere Rechnung vom 01.08.2014 feststellen. Nummer der Bestellung: 8UP/35837710. Ihr Bankkonto wurde nicht ausreichend gedeckt um die Lastschrift durchzufuhren. Sicherlich ist es Ihnen nur entgangen die Ruckbuchung von Ihrem Konto nicht zu berucksichtigen.
Bitte uberweisen Sie den ausstehenden Betrag zuzuglich der Zusatzgebuhren bis zum 20.07.2014 auf unser Bankkonto. Die Summe der Bestellung entspricht 196,00 Euro.
Dabei wird Ihnen eine Mahngebuhr von 24,00 Euro und die Kosten unserer Beauftragung von 49,99 Euro verrechnet. Falls Sie diesen Zahlungstermin nicht einhalten, werden wir Ihnen weitere Kosten des Mahnverfahrens und Verzugszinsen in Rechnung stellen mussen.
Bundesverband Deutscher Inkasso-Unternehmen e.V.
Friedrichstra?e 50-55
55451 Berlin
Tel.: 030 / 206002312
Fax: 030 / 206078109
Internet: www.inkasso.de

BDIU declared that they are sending neither bills nor reminders to consumers

Der BDIU verschickt keine Rechnungen oder Mahnungen an Verbraucher! 

and if one receives such an email, he may delete it immediately.

More information here

Spam Sucks

I found such an Email in my Gmail spam

Trust me, I never signed up...
I was just about wondering, since when Government starts spamming?
And I was shocked by my found

"Hello CheetahMail, hello former colleague in NK!"

I can't understand why the UK Government allows his Mailings to be sent from US.
But I can totally understand, why an (ex-) colleague got so angry once he received (spam-) emails from clients at his personal email address.
I am not angry, but I know pretty much: Spam Sucks!