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Spam spam spam spammity spam
Sometimes, I really can't work out what spammers are after. A list I'm on was vigourously bombarded - about 50 copies got through before an admin got on the case - with a listing of reg codes for Microsoft stuff, up to and including a beta build of Longhorn. I can see why someone might send a single copy, but not 50. And there's no benefit in sight.
And there's a very well written one in this morning to Swiftpay from "Elizabeth Richson", saying that she writes for a website, has linked to us, and would we be interested in linking back to her? Apparently she found us by searching for a given search term, which is one that you'd reasonably find Swiftpay on. If it wasn't for the slightly klunky line of "My site is all about Finance - Misc too", I wouldn't even have glanced at the headers. But it turns out to be from a non-existent domain, and in something mildly mindboggling, googling for that name gives a total of two results, neither connected in any way to finance sites. So a mail asking for a link to a site which doesn't seem to exist, from an email address that can't be replied to, which was generated by a clever program tripped up only by the fact that the category the site is listed under didn't fit as a natural language noun. Why? How can anyone possibly profit by sending this?
And there's a very well written one in this morning to Swiftpay from "Elizabeth Richson", saying that she writes for a website, has linked to us, and would we be interested in linking back to her? Apparently she found us by searching for a given search term, which is one that you'd reasonably find Swiftpay on. If it wasn't for the slightly klunky line of "My site is all about Finance - Misc too", I wouldn't even have glanced at the headers. But it turns out to be from a non-existent domain, and in something mildly mindboggling, googling for that name gives a total of two results, neither connected in any way to finance sites. So a mail asking for a link to a site which doesn't seem to exist, from an email address that can't be replied to, which was generated by a clever program tripped up only by the fact that the category the site is listed under didn't fit as a natural language noun. Why? How can anyone possibly profit by sending this?
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(Anonymous) 2004-01-31 02:42 am (UTC)(link)The following information may be of interest:
Neotrace information
Domain Name: ELIZABETHRICHSON.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org
Name Server: NS1.INTERCOM.COM.CN
Name Server: NS.INTERCOM.COM.CN
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 18-dec-2003
Creation Date: 18-dec-2003
Expiration Date: 18-dec-2004
Whois info for, elizabethrichson.com:
Registrant:
apple
2198 Apple dr.
Columbus, OH 43212
US
Domain name: ELIZABETHRICHSON.COM
Administrative Contact:
Johnson, Muliya billrichson@yahoo.com
2198 Apple dr.
Columbus, OH 43212
US
410-678-8768
Technical Contact:
Customer Service, EV1 Servers domains@ev1servers.net
2600 SW Freeway
Suite 500
Houston, Texas 77098
US
+1.7133337873 Fax: +1.7139429332
Registration Service Provider:
Everyones Internet, domains@ev1servers.net
http://www.ev1servers.net
Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 18-Dec-2003.
Record expires on 18-Dec-2004.
Record created on 18-Dec-2003.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS.INTERCOM.COM.CN
NS1.INTERCOM.COM.CN
Re:
(Anonymous) 2004-02-02 10:11 am (UTC)(link)my guess is that it's some automatic program that's trawled sites for email addressess written somewhere on them and is spamming just to provoke a response - once you reply and therefore let them know the email address is active you will get put on another spam list for the usual porn/viagra stuff.
Re: Reporting Elizabeth Richson
(Anonymous) 2004-02-15 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Elizabeth Richson
(Anonymous) 2004-02-18 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)this too has the following email and is registered to TUCOWS,INC.
<<I'm a web master, and I was just searching Google for iron baby bed. I found your domain, bunintheoven.biz ranked 30, which is pretty cool. My site is all about Home / Garden, too . Maybe we should link up? I wouldn't be stealing any of your sales, because all I do is write informational articles...not selling anything on my site at all. And most of my visitors write back to say that they love the fact that I only write good, quality info. As a matter of fact, I've got a pretty loyal following of people that come back over and over again (they use the site as a reference), so if you link to me, you should get some pretty good traffic from it -- which is always nice. Anyway, let me know if you'd like to swap links. I've already linked to you, and will keep it up there for a few days until I hear back. Hope to hear from you soon! Elizabeth Richson RAC IM: 503779. << Her domain names are registered to WWW.TUCOWS.COM