Wednesday, April 19, 2006
War against Spammers
I feel like hunting down some spammers tonight. I got a few emails today and the previous days from greek spammers. Somehow I dont mind foreign spammers because they simply dont have my email :P. But I have a greek domain which was used by another person previously and that person was not able to protect this domain from spammers. Now I have to put up with these spam emails. But I am going to report them to their providers. I declare war!
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There's a new scam going on with "lovely Russian ladies" exchanging e-mails with guys and miraculously falling in love with them and asking for money for plane/train ticket to visit, and thereafter vanishing.
As I understand, most of the e-mails are scripted. A few that I got didn't even seem to go into what I'd said at all. But I've got an exchange going and will see where it leads to.
Good luck with your war. I find it intriguing to make love and war at the same time!
Here is a link giving a good description of the scam:
http://tinyurl.com/qk76t
Hi Indie, thats funny with the russian ladies scam. It reminds me an astrological review I tested once. The first prediction was free, and then one could buy more predictions. It was written in such a psychological manner that made one it was written in a personal and unique way. Then, emails followed with new predictions and fine psychological manipulation of the reader in order to buy the main predictions. I then tested this with another nickname, email and I gave a different date of birth. The emails were exactly the same, the program just changed the name of the potential client. There are really many organised frauds out there and the sad thing is that they are being advertised by the most important advertisers of the net like google etc.
Let me know if you get any interesting results with this correspondence.
PS: It really pays off to invest time on tracking greek spammers, I tracked all 3, 2 providers replied that they will take care of the matter. The sites are still on, but I will instist with abuse emails if they dont get deleted after some time. Luckily, greek spammers have not yet discovered the tricks that many others use that makes them almost impossible to track. Maybe we can eliminate them before they learn :)).
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