{"id":968,"date":"2014-08-26T12:05:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T20:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/?p=968"},"modified":"2014-08-26T12:16:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T20:16:47","slug":"ten-years-of-scamdex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2014\/08\/ten-years-of-scamdex\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years of Scamdex!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/scamdex_logo_sm.png'\\\/><br \/>\nYes, Scamdex started ten years ago, in 2004! When I started, it was a very simple site, hand-written in Perl and was purely a database of email scams. Now it includes Scam Tip Off Reports and many more emails. I would like to thank my visitors, who mostly arrive via a search engine (mainly Google) for reading my all too infrequent blog posts and supporting my site with ad clicks. <\/p>\n<p>When I first started Scamdex, I was the only kid on the block. Internet Security was barely visible, beyond sellers of Anti-Virus stuff. I was number 1 in the search rankings for &#8217;email scam&#8217; for the first couple of years then business and government got interested.<\/p>\n<p>The design has always been &#8216;challenged&#8217;, partly because of the dynamic, database-driven nature of the site, but I like to think it has improved over the years. The earliest view I can find is <a href='http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040712172946\/http:\/\/scamdex.com\/'>here<\/a>. I do have a long term plan to update the look and feel completely, using Twitter Bootstrap to make the site better accessible to the growing trend of mobile device viewership. It&#8217;s just time&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to another ten years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Scamdex started ten years ago, in 2004! When I started, it was a very simple site, hand-written in Perl and was purely a database of email scams. Now it includes Scam Tip Off Reports and many more emails. I would like to thank my visitors, who mostly arrive via a search engine (mainly Google) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,12],"tags":[144,143,145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}