[I] afp spam
Melody S-K
I have just been deliberately targeted by a spammer because I posted on afp
This is the crap I just received:
'Hi MelodyS-K!
Just so you know I saw your name in the
newsgroup alt.fan.pratchett. So I emailed you.
What would you do if you had extra money?
A nice steady flow of income that is
residual month after month? What would
you do if you had a great product to
promote? We show you exactly how it's all
done! We invite you to join our free
mailing list subscription. You will
receive mailings about out products,
business opportunities, ways to make your
profits go through the ROOF, and so much
MORE! All you have to do is send an email
to makemo...@hotpop.com with the subject
'Mailing List Subscription'.
We look forward to hearing from you soon!'
Did anyone else get this?
Melody
David Chapman
> Argh!
> I have just been deliberately targeted by a spammer because I posted on
> afp
Not a targetted spam. It just yanked the group name when it grepped and
inserted it into the mail in a vain attempt to look more like a friend and
less like the syphilitic scumbag that it is.
> Did anyone else get this?
Not me, but thank you for posting his e-mail address so that we've all
effectively been spammed.
--
Twelve points to ... SLOVENIA!
Melody S-K
"David Chapman" <jedit_...@hotmail.com> wrote
news:2jfouiF...@uni-berlin.de...
Apologies David ..I am not as clued up as some
Melody
Jimmy O'Regan
> Argh!
> I have just been deliberately targeted by a spammer because I posted on afp
>
> Did anyone else get this?
X Kyle M Thompson
> Argh!
> I have just been deliberately targeted by a spammer because I posted on afp
>
>
> Just so you know I saw your name in the
> newsgroup alt.fan.pratchett. So I emailed you.
Aye, same here, sent to my spamgourmet address.
I replied, from the spamgourmet address, saying "it's honest spam, but
it's still spam"
kt.
Richard Eney
Melody S-K <Mel...@wibble.org> wrote:
>"David Chapman" <jedit_...@hotmail.com> wrote
>> > Did anyone else get this?
>>
>> Not me, but thank you for posting his e-mail address so that we've all
>> effectively been spammed.
>
>Apologies David ..I am not as clued up as some
OTOH, it's possible that some spamming scumbag will pick up the spammer's
address and spam him.
=Tamar
Gideon Hallett
I'm guessing that Hotpop LLC have themselves got some pretty heavy spam
filtering in place.
Mind you, there's absolutely nothing to stop people sending lots and lots of
paper mail to:
HotPOP LLC
PO BOX 508
ATTN Hostmaster
Newton, MA 02460
US
Or, if you prefer, ringing them up at +1 617-441-0917
And Cogent appear to be their upstream.
Gideon.
(Isn't WHOIS wonderful?)
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Kevin Golding
write....
I just had my second and I think their system might be falling apart, it
started:
Hi %Name%!
Just so you know I saw your name in the
newsgroup %Newsgroup%. So I emailed you.
Caomhin
Jeff C
wrote:
It's most likely that it's either some other poor innocent spam
victim's address, or completely bogus. Spammy won't see a thing :(
Richard Bos
It's the only address in the mail (at least, as far as Melody posted
it), so it's likely that it really does belong to the spammer. How else
would they get the suckers to get in contact with them?
Richard
Phoenix Flying Low
MESSAGES IT'S THE APOCRALYPSE!!!!!!!!!
Sorry bout all caps that was E-shouting.
Martyn Clapham
<jeff...@hotmail.com> writes
They wouldn't anyway as the address isn't in the headers, only in the
body of the post and I don't think there are any harvesters that grab
bodies. One reason why reply-to is still not usually harvested, as I
believe it is not in the basic headers grabbed by the bots.
Mart - not a spam geek, so probably wrong.
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Jenny Radcliffe
> Argh!
> I have just been deliberately targeted by a spammer because I posted on
> afp
Yes. But then I also got an Identical one which started
"Hi %Name%!
"Just so you know I saw your name in the
newsgroup %Newsgroup%. So I emailed you."
I think this tells us all we need to know about how it's working ...
Jenny
The Stainless Steel Cat
<Michael Winner>
Calm down dear, it's only an advert.
</Michael Winner>
Cat.
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X Kyle M Thompson
> <Michael Winner>
> Calm down dear, it's only an advert.
> </Michael Winner>
Damn, Fanta is all over my desk now, luckily the iBook escaped :)
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The more I love my dog.
Phil Davison
> Argh!
> I have just been deliberately targeted by a spammer because I posted on
> afp
>
<Snip>
>
> Did anyone else get this?
>
>
I didn't because my reply-to address is automatically redirected to the
Force9 black hole.
--
Cyclops
Evil Heretic Infiltrator
Andy Davison
> Did anyone else get this?
Possibly but if so I deleted it on the server. I check with kshowmail and
if it's not from someone I know or the mailing list I'm on I don't even
see what it's about, I just delete on the server.
--
Andy Davison
an...@oiyou.force9.co.uk
Jeff C
Rule #3 says that spammers are stoopid. I have in the past seen spams
so b0rken that there is no way on Earth for Spammy's
vic^Wsuck^Wcustomers to contact him. The asssertion that spammers are
stoopid is borne out further down this thread wherin a spam is posted
that shows that Spammy was either too impatient to let it harvest
addresses, or too thick to get it to work properly.
It's even odds that Spammy gets results from this spam. Too bad the
damage is already done :(
Iain Hallam
> In article <cav03q$a6q$1...@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>,
> "Phoenix Flying Low" <ak...@zsword.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>IT'S LIKE BLOODY MEERKAT! I HAD 9 AFP WELOME MESSAGES AND NOW 2 SPAM
>>MESSAGES IT'S THE APOCRALYPSE!!!!!!!!!
>>Sorry bout all caps that was E-shouting.
>
>
> <Michael Winner>
> Calm down dear, it's only an advert.
> </Michael Winner>
>
> Cat.
Not often that reading newsgroups elicits a LOL from me, but there you go :D
- Iain.
Mark Gallagher
says...
> IT'S LIKE BLOODY MEERKAT! I HAD 9 AFP WELOME MESSAGES AND NOW 2 SPAM
> MESSAGES IT'S THE APOCRALYPSE!!!!!!!!!
> Sorry bout all caps that was E-shouting.
Hmm, no welcome email, no chocolate, now no spam...
Hrmmm...
<sniffs underarms />
--
Mark Gallagher
"He's dead, Jim. You grab his tricorder, I'll get his wallet."
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Email: [first initial] dot [surname] at canberra dot edu dot au
X Kyle M Thompson
> Hmm, no welcome email...
Yeah there was, the nice people at bar.net got it :)
kt.
Mark Gallagher
news.arghbug...@spamgourmet.com says...
> Mark Gallagher wrote:
>
> > Hmm, no welcome email...
>
> Yeah there was, the nice people at bar.net got it :)
I'll pay that :-)
(Bet it was a welcome change from all the spam they're getting...)