An article with the revelation that spammers use Pump and Dump to make money from the people that they scam. Spammers Turn To Pump and Dump.
Archive of posts filed under the Spam category.
ABZT spam run
Wow, just when I thought the lame loser idiot spammer faking my domain name in their spam had gone away, they start up again. I talked with a lawyer about this, and essentially there is nothing I can do about this, except maybe trademarking my domain name, so I can sue. That’s $500 I won’t […]
Idiot Phishers
Here’s an easy way to tell an email message is a phishing attempt: If the message refers to a technology that doesn’t exist yet, it’s a scam of some sort. I just recevied this attempt to phish my PayPal account info: Your account will be suspended ! We are contacting you to remind you that […]
GTVCF ended up with 1,535 bounces
I ended up with 1,535 bounces of falsified planetmike.com email addresses.
Beware of “Internet Corporation Listing Service”
Watch out for highly annoying yet legal invoice-looking things from the Internet Corporation Listing Service. If you register a domain name, you have to give a working address. That address will be sent a soliciation that looks very very similar to a bill. This is for an annual subscription for being listed in search engine. […]
Joy, Globetech Ventures GTVCF
Wonderful, happy Friday. 368 bounces and they’re still coming in. Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:32:43 -0800 * Wallstreet Insider Alert Newsletter * Information you can Trust and Profit from. Our extensive research shows GTVCF is on the move with big gains expected on Monday. They will be having a big promotion promotion going all weekend […]
March 6-7
153 bounces advertising PCLI. Here’s the message: jesusita Great Pick For Monday March 7th, 2005 Financial News High Gains Expected All Week, Get In Early Monday. Our last profitable offers: >>> Previous: GTEL – Profiled at 10 cents and since then it hit 35 cents 250% Gains, Don’t miss PCLI it will be even better! […]
Who is TriPromoConsult ?
So now the question is, who is the comapny “TriPromoConsult?” Google shows nothing, except other spam “authorized” by them. It’s interesting that the spam has the letter i in Tri as an uppercase, so it looks like an “L.” Although that could be some silly spammer trick to try to get around search strings in […]
Starting Feb 1st, DTOI spam
Wow, 1,666 pieces of bounced spam touting DTOI since February 1st. Here’s the first one: imperialism +++Investor Edge Weekly DTOI+++ “Where Investors Always Win” 570% Gains Last Month Don’t Miss Our Pick For this week, “DTOI” Will Be Hot Next Week get it immediately, a big promotion will begin Thurday evening followed up by a […]
DTOI – Dtomi, Inc.
Another new run of spam advertising some loser company not worth much.