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21 Apr 05 - 07:46 PM (#1467427) Subject: BS: New Spam Trend Observed From: Amos I guess Spam comes in waves like anything else. What the spammer-shmucks are doing now is presuming to be stock market advisors. My junkmail used to be 80% or better about sexand drugs --VIagara, teens, pharmaceuticals, animals of all description, and various combinations thereof. Now, I'm getting about 40% suggestions on promising penny stocks and small-caps. I can only assume these guys buy the stock, dump the spam, and sell on the upttick, despite the fact that this is illegal according to SEC regs. These guys don't give a shit if they break old ladies or fool people with NO reserves into debt. They're scum of the earth. Anyone else notice this trend? In addition there is a new art-form appearing in this criminal sector called "pharming". Unlike "phishing", where you can readily see the fraudulent construction of bogus email from "Citbank" or "E-Bay" asking you to send in your credit information, these "pharming" guys take genuine links to banks and on-line services and intercept the sessions at the server, redirecting them without your knowledge to a bogus site where you proceed in innocence until you lose your savings account or whatever. It is relatively small in numbers yet, but how long will that last? This kind of thing takes all the pride, pleasure and safety out of using the internet as an advanced tool of civilization, and puts it down with the trash and gutter-bums who would as soon kill you as look at you. I spit. Regards, Amos |
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21 Apr 05 - 08:31 PM (#1467483) Subject: RE: BS: New Spam Trend Observed From: The Fooles Troupe I've been getting the stock market advice spam for quite a while. Big news items the other day about a few internet sellers selling drugs without prescription getting lumbered. My latest upsurge is for sites that blatantly claim to be child porn sites. A few years ago I went round in circles trying to find a police agency that would accept onforwarded reports of such spam, I was even asked to stop onforwarding it. Now Mailwasher just flushes it all, but you can usually guess from the subject line what it is about. |
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21 Apr 05 - 08:34 PM (#1467485) Subject: RE: BS: New Spam Trend Observed From: Mrrzy Hmm, I just got some emails from myself I never sent and which have Zip attachments - I'm afraid... I'm very afraid... |
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21 Apr 05 - 09:01 PM (#1467517) Subject: RE: BS: New Spam Trend Observed From: JohnInKansas Amos - It just means you're reaching the age where they think they can scare you about starving to death in retirement. Someone found you on a "senile" list. Been there for years. John |
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21 Apr 05 - 09:03 PM (#1467518) Subject: RE: BS: New Spam Trend Observed From: Ebbie Strangely, the volume of spam I am getting has dropped. I was getting something like 30 suspect emails per day, offering everything from Viagra to pharmaceuticals to ways of enhancing the sexual enjoyment of my wife (I'm a woman). Now I am getting 10 or fewer a day. I expect it has to do with the legal penalties that have been publicised. However, I am getting more spam that eludes my filters by their using full names and adopting folksy ways. One of my favorites is "Did I forget I was supposed to call you?" If I don't know the name attached to email it goes down the tubes unopened. A few months ago I signed up for a Yahoo account in addition to my long time account with my own server. Oddly, I have not received one Spam email on the Yahoo account. |
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21 Apr 05 - 09:07 PM (#1467527) Subject: RE: BS: New Spam Trend Observed From: Rapparee I have Thunderbird flush 'em. I got phished the other day. The email said that I had to verify my Key Bank account. Problem is, I don't have such a thing, either personally or through work. After whois-ing the IPs and doing other such stuff, I traced it to a company in an industrial park in Cairo, Egypt. Using a back-door approach, I visited the URL given in the email. Sure did LOOK like a Key Bank site. A reverse lookup on the 800 number, however, never did say that it was assigned -- just kept coming up empy on three different look-up sites. So I reported the whole thing to Key Bank. But -- I did keep some printouts, which I've forwarded to the local police department's Crime Watch. They're free to put it into their monthly newletter as a cautionary tale for other folks who might not know as much about it as I do. |
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21 Apr 05 - 09:12 PM (#1467535) Subject: RE: BS: New Spam Trend Observed From: The Fooles Troupe (Inspired by another thread!) taking into account what many of those spams are about.... "Lady of Spam, I adore you!" Hm.... another Song Challenge.... |