In this quick edition, I'd like to bring up the following on Dad's day.

- Hate Spam?
- VVestern Union Phish
- IRS and Australian Tax Office Phish
- Lower Gas Prices and Fix Environmental Issues


But first, some good progress was made this past week on improving
overall www.castlecops.com performance.  Things have picked up a lot on
a consistent basis.

Also for those of you who won something in our Contest2007 giveaway and
haven't received anything yet (via mail), I should begin sending them
out again this week.  Server issues the past 3-4 weeks have put a damper
on that.

** But please note, after I sent this out, I received hundreds of bounce back
notifications because I included the domain "wumt.vvesternunion.biz" in this
newsletter.  Trial and error, I won't do that again.  See the full newsletter
copy here.

Well so do we and our members. Stop by our spam forum to discuss the
latest issues and news. Hooray to the FBI for shutting down three big
botmasters just days ago.

http://www.castlecops.com/f16-Spam.html

A brand new Western Union phish email just came into my inbox. I took
note right away of the tomfoolery. The domain is not "Western" Union,
but "VVestern" Union that is being pitched here:

wumt.vvesternunion.biz

The email follows... and it seems crooks are preying on people's tired
eyes at 4 AM who are up and surfing.

Advisory alert on an Austrailian Tax Office, IRS Phish. Below is the
fraudulent email.

Lately as I read the News coverage on the Energy bill in the Senate It
has occurred to me that Government will never solve Energy Issues. Our
Senate leaders bulk and squabble over rather increasing auto fuel
economy by 30 percent to 36 miles per gallon by 2022 and for sport
utility vehicles and small trucks to reach 30 mpg by 2025 would be a
good thing.

Lawmakers argue that requiring the Electricity companies to produce 15%
of there energy from renewables by the year 2020 is asking to much.

Reading this has convinced me that government can not be relied on to
solve issue as big as ecology and the survival of the Human Race. So I
started thinking about what can be done to solve these issues.