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Main on July 29th, 2009 by Pingdom
Just imagine how extremely happy we were when the following email dropped into the support inbox here at Pingdom:
We are obviously very flattered to have been chosen by this lovely African lady and that she wants to transfer all those millions of dollars into our bank account.
Needless to say, we will of course help this wonderful woman so she can invest in our business. How about that five star hotel idea she presented in her email?
(Yes, ok, we ARE kidding. But some of those spam emails are funny, especially when they land in a support inbox totally out of context. It would be funnier if it wasn’t for the sad fact that some unfortunate people are actually fooled by spam. According to some sources a full 12% of email users have tried to buy stuff from spam emails.)
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Main on February 9th, 2012 by Pingdom
There’s no denying that Google Chrome continues to be the darling of the web browser market. And as we predicted in July last year, Chrome overtook Firefox around November 2011.
So now the question is, when will Google also wrestle down Internet Explorer, and become the undisputed king of the browser world? In December 2011, Chrome 15 became the most popular browser in the world, beating Internet Explorer 8, but if you combine all IE versions, Microsoft still holds the number 1 spot.
Equipped with the latest web browser statistics from StatCounter, we set out to see when Chrome is likely to achieve more than 50% market share.
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Main on February 8th, 2012 by Pingdom
Want to see how your favorite US sports site is doing, if it has a perfect 100% uptime score or not? If you want to check the latest scores and it isn’t working, could it be a problem with your computer or connection, or the site? We’ve got the solution for you!
For some time now we’ve been monitoring 34 major US sports and news sites related to sports. Our recent articles on the Super Bowl are a result of that monitoring.
Now you can look at how these sites are doing yourself on the public reports page for this list of US sports websites.
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Main on February 8th, 2012 by Pingdom
Who has not used Google Maps? Raise your hand! Since the launch 7 years ago, Google Maps has become the de facto map service that users around the world go to for all their mapping needs.
As we say Happy Birthday to Google Maps, read on to find out some of the critical milestones in its history, and some amazing numbers and statistics.
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Main on February 7th, 2012 by Pingdom
In 2010, there were just over 1 million secure Internet websites worldwide. Almost half of those, or 446,992 to be exact, were located in the United States.
But in which country can we find the most secure websites in relation to population? The answer may surprise you.
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Main on February 6th, 2012 by Pingdom
The New England Patriots held what seemed to be a commanding lead (17-15) with five minutes left of Super Bowl XLVI last night. But the New York Giants came back and managed to win with 21-17.
As exciting as the game sounds, we missed the whole thing, instead spending our time watching the Superbowl.com website.
It turned out to be a rather dull thing to do because the site held up well and there was no downtime at all. The response time also didn’t give away anything significant in terms of online Super Bowl traffic.
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ddorian
July 29th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
congratulations!
i remember my first spam email:
damn i was so angry i didnt win those 2 tickets to ibiza
but i didnt pay shit
was just happy for a few moments:D
roberto
July 30th, 2009 at 7:44 am
I remember in the mid 80′s companies in Eastern Europe (behind the iron-curtain) got letters like this by snail-mail.
Misao
July 30th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
LOL, i like that font.
Wes
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:17 pm
A really cool site I found a few years ago http://www.419eater.com The guy follows up on those letters and wastes the scammers time, it is a great read.
Peter Auwoo
August 6th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Each time I got email which contain unbelieveable $$$ I delete it soon. I hate it.
Volker
August 7th, 2009 at 5:05 am
Shame on you. I received the same email and now im happy with my 20% commision.
You should actually post info for people so they fall intro this tricks and here they are:
If you do respond this, they actually follow you and call, etc. They ask you to wire some amount like 1000$ so they can pay the bank fees it costs them to wire you the full money. What a joke!!!!
I dont understand how people fall into this. Is someone actually so stupid to wire money to someone they dont know?
I received one even better last week. It came from the F.B.I and they wanted to send me an ATM card with money on it.