August 31, 2007

Crystal Development

What do the following companies have in common?

• Crystal Development
• Asekon LTD

They are all the same company. They are currently spaming around the Internet. If you get an email from one of them, just add them to you SPAM Blocklist.

They can't even spell the word "development" correctly on their website:

Corporate Headquarters
Crystal Develpment.
VZV Ubicenter Philipssite 5
bus 13 B-3001 Leuven
Belgium

April 19, 2007

Smart Spam

Spam for those who have finished their 23rd year of school

Your current case has been presented to the important groups, and upon meticulous forethought, we are able to propose to you the subsequent prospect.

Based upon meticulous forethought you meet the criteria to attain a openhanded profit on your initial property investment.

By completing the subsequent attached form in a timely manner we will be able to complete our appraisal, and we feel assured you will attain not only a decreased rate of interest, but also a cash return that will fulfill all your holiday needs and more!

Please go here to complete this stage of the agreement.

Hoping on the best for you all.
Chris Savage

Should you prefer not to take advantage of this holiday prospect you can go here.

December 13, 2006

System Doctor

Just saw this when visiting Boston.com website:

Some users will instantly know what's wrong with that image. Yes this appeared in a Javascript Pop-up in Safari, a Macintosh computer. Macintosh computers don't have a registry.

November 27, 2006

OEM Software

Today I got a SPAM that was selling OEM software, and in the body of the email is a FAQ, with the following:

Q: Why is the software so inexpensive?
A: We offer the software for downloading only, it means that you do not receive a fancy package, a printed manual and license that actually aggregate the largest part of the retail price. In this situation we are restricted in selling the products for private purposes only! You will not be able to get a technical support and different rebates from the manufacturer. Updates are available for the most of our products (you may ask our support staff for the exceptions) that make them fully functional and operating. Additionally you save the delivery cost.

Great, so I spend $149 to download Adobe software, but can't use it since there's no license. Might be better off throwing the money out the window, at least there's a chance some of it might blow back in....

November 03, 2006

FunBenfit Emails

Got to love FunBenefits spams, they have an image embedded in the email that checks to see if your reading it.

Here's an example, I altered the code so my "ID" wouldn't display.

<img src="http://g.targetedpages.com/be.php?ad_key=QEHFQJSKRTOI&bs=550x45&lc=1&p2=admanager_email,580446&u=202796697&imgs=0&
fmt=png&s=12&s2=10&s3=10&f2=2&c=000000&c2=000000&c3=000000&bdrc=FFFFFF&adlayout=a&
clickhereicon=0&ul=1&ul3=1" border="0" alt="">

I bounced this email back to the server and got a response saying: 550 Relay Access Denied

My advice is to ignore whatever FunBenefits sells.