The Cat is starting to prowl

 

I have not been doing much on this blog lately and I am afraid that a lot of what I do will be reduced. The masses of spam have had to be filtered and dumped, as my ISP can't cope with it, but I have enough to write a full analysis of it. Hopefully, I will have saved someone's bank account. But judging by what the wunch of bankers have done, the criminals are small beer.

I am alive and well and working on a new project. Now all can be revealed and I am one of a team developing a new Project Management System. It's loosely called MX73 and you can read about it on the blog, that I'm starting for the program.

The cat is out of the bag and starting to prowl.

Michael Vincent

 

I get two e-mails a day from this idiot telling me how I can make a lot of money. I don't need advice from people like him, but because he persists, it can't be a very good scheme.

But don't take my word for it, type "Michael Vincent scam" into Google and see what you find.

Hatloans.com

 

I've just had some spam from this company offering me an unsecured loan.

I suspect that's against the rules of the FSA. It may all be kosher, but I certainly wouldn't borrow any money, or buy anything for that matter, from a company that advertised with e-mails that looked like spam.

Why do I say look like spam?

The e-mail came from Frank Pierre [jadinsjyyevettepiab@excite.com]. Is that a genuine e-mail? No! Well, not in my book and I suspect ninety-nine percent of all Internet users.

If you can't reply directly to it, then the e-mail should be illegal. I did reply to the e-mail address and as expected it bounced.

The Loneliest Lady on the Planet

 

I get masses of e-mails a day from this lady. She must be incredibly dim, as she is surely good looking enough to get a boyfriend.

James Miller on the Radio

 

This morning I appeared on Victoria Derbyshire's program on Radio 5 Live discussing some of the worst excesses of spam promoting loans at an interest rate of 183.2%.

The only blemish, was that due to Victoria taking me earlier than the producer thought she would, I informed the nation, I was going to take a quick pee-break.

The Demise of Pump and Dump

 

There has been some discussion as to whether Pump and Dump scams have disappeared on the SPAM-L list.

Here's a graph, which shows they almost have.

Dating Spam

 

This has grown remarkably in the last few weeks.

Look at these figures.

Week % Dating

09/08 1.60
16/08 0.84
23/08 0.81
30/08 0.78
06/09 0.62
13/09 1.72
20/09 3.28
27/09 9.11
04/10 10.48
11/10 13.00

I can't see the point of it, as most has a picture of the same girl, TatianaG.

But look how it has risen in the last couple of weeks.

Viruses Down, Dating Up

 

Over the last few days, the number of virus e-mails I receive has dropped dramatically. On the other hand twenty percent of the spam I get is from dating sites.

You win some and you lose some.

www.attitudeproductions.com

 

Spam is being sent out which point to this web site. Don't click it as it links to a site that tries to install a virus on your site.

The registration is as follows :-

Registrant:
Attitude Media Design
33 Walton Drive.
Aurora, Ontario L4G 1W8
Canada

Registrar: DOTREGISTRAR
Domain Name: ATTITUDEPRODUCTIONS.COM
Created on: 24-JUN-03
Expires on: 24-JUN-09
Last Updated on: 29-MAY-08

Administrative Contact:
Swann, Pete pswann@aci.on.ca
33 Walton Drive.
Aurora, Ontario L4G 1W8
Canada
905-727-9400
905-727-0103

Technical Contact:
Metcalfe, Vic vic@zymsys.com
7 Corbett Cres.
Aurora, Ontario L4G 2E9
Canada
416-435-3457
905-707-2772


Domain servers in listed order:
NS.ZYMSYS.COM
NS2.ZYMSYS.COM

American Cruise Company

 

I am getting calls despite being registered with the Telephone Preference Service from an American Cruise Company. They seem to be using the number 01789 0000000, which should be in Stratford on Avon. Note the extra zero.

It looks like they're generating that number to get round those people who ban Withheld calls.

Yet another reason not to buy American products.

Spamming is OK if you're American

 

This is an except from a piece on The Register about a US spammer called Jeremy Jaynes, who has been set free, because apparently his free speech is worth more than our right not to receive his junk.

Notorious American AOL spammer Jeremy Jaynes had his nine year federal prison sentence overturned today, when Virginia's high court ruled the state's tough "anti-spam" law violates the First Amendment right to free speech.

The court unanimously agreed Virginia's anti-spam law is "unconstitutionally overbroad" because it bans all unsolicited bulk email with false or misleading originating addresses, both commercial and noncommercial.

The law considers unsolicited bulk email a felony if more than 10,000 recipients are mailed in a 24-hour period.

Justice Steven Agee wrote in today's ruling that the state law violates "the right to engage in anonymous speech, particularly anonymous political or religious speech" protected by the First Amendment.

Agee added that "were the Federalist Papers just being published today via e-mail, that transmission by PubliAus would violate the statute."

Until the United States joins the real world, we will continue to get these problems.

Strange Spam

 

I've been getting a lot of spam with different quotes similar to this one.

"Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil." Aldous Leonard Huxley

Can't see any point!

There are also ones like this.

monel curate monel? hysteresis, fend try.
convene vreeland velasquez try suffragette communicant, suffragette isabel faith isabel hydrous capacitive.

fend suffragette suffragette

compendium compendium terrace? gifford, correspondent isabel.
mauricio reverend vreeland isabel appleton hydrosphere, capacitive hysteresis try pragmatist booky supremacy.

bahrein pierce terrace

extemporaneous try extemporaneous? axon, hydrous borneo.

suffragette grandchild.

None of them seem to have any links and I can't see what message they are about. Perhaps, the senders are trying out new spam methods.

Dating Group Team

 

Not sure if it's fraud, but it is one for the dustbin.

Good Day,

We offer a part time job on your computer.

Job Description:

We will provide you with the texts for our employees with the important information and you will correct the texts as an english speaking person and send them back to us.

Salary:

We don't have a fixed salary for this vacancy. We will pay you $7.00 for every 1Kb of the corrected text. You will get paid at the END of each month. Every month your salary will be different as it depends on your activity.

Example: If you correct about 5Kb of texts per day you will get over $1000.00 at the end of the month.

Requirements:

-Location: USA
-Age: 20+
-Home computer, e-mail address and Microsoft Word -Responsibility

To apply for job please send us the following information to:

Dating.Services.73@gmail.com
__________
FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE:
Phone number (home or cell, but SHOULD BE available any day time):
E-MAIL:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
EDUCATION:
AVAILABLE HOUR TO WORK WITH US:
----------

As soon as we revise your aplication we will contact you within 24 hours.

If you have any additional questions, feel free to ask.

Awaiting for your application.

With respect
Dating Group Team

UK Spam from the US

 

Increasingly, I'm getting a lot of spam from UK companies from US direct mail organisations. I got four from load/credit companies today.

There was also one from Tesco. I just don't use them anymore, unless it is to my advantage. I've pointed this out in letters to the company and nothing happens.

Rail Scrap

 

Not really sure what this is about.

As I was spam I posted it.

Description:
We wish to confirm you with full corporate responsibility that we are end seller ready, willing and able to transact and sell the commodities, with the following specifications, terms and conditions.
Sales and purchases will be based on the following procedures
.
The Product is Used Train Rail Scraps with the Specification of R50 & R 65 as conformed to the ISRI Codes.
Manufactured in Russia & Ukrain
The Origin is South Africa .
Quantity: 360, 000 MT (Three hundred and sixty Thousand Metric Tons)
Contract Period: Twelve Months.
Price: USD$125 per Metric Ton FOB.
Payment Terms: with only POF we will deliver the goods and there will be no up-front payment of any sort until delivery to your port. The POF will come as Pre-advise(MT799) to our bank which Seller will present to Buyer as his nominated bank account.

If you confirm willing, ready, we will send you the Verbiage of POF.

Inspections: By Buyer and at the port of loading by SGS for clear and clean of the quantity of the goods loaded on board vessel.
Chemical Composition: International Standards as follows:
R50 - 51.67 kg/m GOST 7173-75
C : 0.67 -- 0.8%
Mn : 0.75 -- 1.05%
Si : 0.13 -- 0.28%
P : max. 0.035%
S : max. 0.045%
Ar : max. 0.15%
R65 - 64.72 kg/m GOST 8165-75
C: 0.6 -- 0.082%
n: 0.75 -- 1.05%
Si: 0.13 - 0.28%
P: max. 0.035%
S: max. 0.045%
Ar: max. 0.15
Please confirm if you are willing to close down the contract as to enable us schedule and arrange for your urgent trip to South Africa for inspections of the materials and signing of the contract with us.

Finally, be informed that upon your acceptance to this offer, we will be providing you with all the related documents for your perusals before coming down to South Africa for the signing of the contract with us. Contact us with this phone number (+27825853552)

PLEASE REVERT YOUR EMAILS TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS: ebl.contract@gmail.com or ebl1.contractor@gmail.com
Regards
Benard M Radebe
Thanks

Sears Spam

 

Every day I get three or four spam e-mails from Sears.

It just shows how stupid some companies are, as I don't have a Sears near me. They should get their act together.

Loan Spam

 

I'm getting about six to ten spam messages a day trying to sell me a loan. Not the usual sort from joke companies in the UK, but from companies in the UK, who would think themselves totally proper.

One had an APR of 192% and was proud of the fact!

Isn't it illegal for these messages to be sent out from a spammer in the US?

Incidentally, the e-mail addresses they are sent to, were all harvested from the daisy.co.uk web site some years ago.

Spam is 30 Years Old

 

According to the Register, spam is thirty years old tomorrow.

Happy birthday spam!

Subject: $REPLINK

 

There are a lot of spam messages of this nature about today.

It's our old friend the Canadian Pharmacy.

Write to the Canadian Ambassador about it. If a million of us did that, they might do something about these load of crooks besmirching the name of Canada.

High Commissioner
Canadian High Commission
1 Grosvenor Sq
London, W1K 4AB

020 72586600‎

Yahoo

 

Most of the fraud, I've had lately have been sent by Yahoo customers.

At least Yahoo have their spam priorities correct, then!