Spammers

May 01, 2006

Contact the Paying Bank

Got to love these spam emails...
The East-West Australia Lotteries organization is sophisticated enough to run a multi-million Euro lottery, but requires you to contact them using a FREE Netscape email account.

BTW: Why would an Australia Lottery have its head office in the Netherlands and be dispensing Euros?

East-West Australia Lotteries,
1022 Kingsway Ave., Osborne,
Western Australia, 6018.
Head office: Maliebaan 38-40, 3581CR,
Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Dear Sir/Madam,

YOU WON: ?1,000,000.00!euros With outmost joy, we are pleased to inform you of the result of the East-West Australia Lotteries International programs held on the 16th of April 2006 drew cash Prize of ?1,000,000.00. Your e-mail address attached to Code number 370011972387-290-02 with claim.. [Lots of text removed...]

Contact details of our Paying Bank:
Contact person: Mr. Powell Green.
Department of Private Banking,
Deutsche Bank, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
E-mail: srvcscust@netscape.net
Tel: 31 647-494-395
Fax 31-84-752-0508
Congratulations.
Yours in services,
Felicia Lanza.(Lottery Coordinator)
Note: Participants below 21 years are automatically disqualified.
All e-mail transmission/correspondence are 100% protected by our Secure Socket Layer (SSL) server.

January 30, 2006

Spam

Sometime spam can be funny, like this one I recently got. This text is supposed to fool spam filters that this is a legitimate email.

The English Language. Have you ever wondered why foreigners have trouble with the English Language?. Let's face it. English is a crazy language. There is no egg in the eggplant No ham in the hamburger. And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England. French fries were not invented in France. We sometimes take English for granted But if we examine its paradoxes we find that Quicksand takes you down slowly, Boxing rings are square. And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If writers write, how come fingers don't fing. If the plural of tooth is teeth. Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth, If the teacher taught, Why didn't the preacher praught. If a vegetarian eats vegetables. What the does a humanitarian eat? Why do people recite at a play, Yet play at a recital? Park on driveways and Drive on parkways. You have to marvel at the unique lunacy. Of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down. And in which you fill in a form by filling it out. And a bell is only heard once it goes! English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (Which of course isn't a race at all) That is why when the stars are out they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible, and why it is that when I wind up my watch it starts, but when I wind up this observation, it ends.

December 27, 2005

Robert G. Allen

Robert G. Allen has decides to increase his business by using spam. He started his business career by writing several books on how to make money in the Real Estate market, now he's venture to online spam.

I would advised avoiding his books/seminars. There are plenty of better business people out there such as Brian Tracy and Harvey MacKay. Both offer a lot of free advice and have written excellent books.

Robert G. Allen spam Internet users by saying, "On live TV I promised the world I would make $24,000 in 24 hours..." Really, is this a good medium to distribute your message? The net results is similar to him printed up a bunch of door hangers and put them all over town. This is a bad way to get your name out.

This is one opportunity you should miss...

A couple of recent books:
The One Minute Millionaire: The Enlightened Way to Wealth
by Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen (Hardcover - October 22, 2002)

Cracking the Millionaire Code : Your Key to Enlightened Wealth
by Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen (Hardcover - May 31, 2005)

Nothing Down for the 2000s : Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate
by Robert G. Allen (Hardcover - August 31, 2004)

August 19, 2004

Sex4Nothing.com

Recently I have been getting lots of unwanted email from Sex4Nothing.com. Several attempts to removed me from this mailing list has only increase the mail that I get from this spammer

Sex4Nothing.com is sending out nothing but porn email, and is using tricks that are prohibited from the CAN-SPAM act. Such as having "Category: Medical Dictionary" to trick filters to thinking this is a medical email, and the use of random words throughout the email. Any organization using these tricks can be considered legitimate.

The domain is registered at:

Domain, Administrator admin@nameadmininc.com
Box 10518 A.P.O.
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, B.W.I.
KY
+1.345.946.6879

Hopefully someone in the Internet community will shut these people down!

February 20, 2004

Spammers

With the increase of spam over the past few months, there has been a lot of alternative solutions to stopping them.

I think my solution works the best because there's no way spammers can get around it. No matter how much they try to hide some of their words, the email still will not get through.

Basically all you do is create a filter in your email client and check to see if the sender is in your address box, if not, the mail goes in a holding folder. I named my folder 'Frog' which is named after Brian Tracy's book 'Eat that Frog.'

Once a day I goto the 'Frog' folder and look at all the email to see if there is any legit email. This way I am not missing out on any new correspondences.

I would recommend anyone that gets a lot of Junk Mail to consider creating this filter.