Just because a chain letter claims Snopes says it's real and provides a link,
doesn't make it so...
The 2007 "Don't Open Merry Christmas" virus chain email is a hoax that gives the
usual bogus "This is the worst virus ever, it will burn your hard drive!" and
other such hysterical claims. But in order to try looking credible so people
will pass it along without actually bothering to look it up, the chain also
provides a link to a three-year-old Snopes page about a virus from 2004. The
deal is that most people will just pass on the chain without actually checking
out the Snopes info. And no, it is not better getting any chain email 25 times
than opening a Merry Christmas message.
Outdated 2004 virus info:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/zafi.asp
Snopes page on the current Merry Christmas virus warning hoax and variations of:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/invitation.asp
-Yeah right... Of course, one look at the full headers shows this isn't Paypal.
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2)
Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02
To: "kefka" kefka@isp.net, "kefka" keko@isp.net,
"kefka" email@isp.net, "kefka" kevin888@isp.net
-Oh, this is rich. So, you can't even decide which one of these is "Kefka" You
are sad, really sad.
Subject: PayPal
-No, not Paypal, actually.
Dear kefka,
-I'm not Kefka - and this just goes even further to prove you're not really
Paypal.
In accordance with our major database relocation, we are currently having
major adjustments and updates of user accounts to verify that the
informations you have provided with us during the sign-up process are true
and correct.
-How can you manage that when you can't even write a coherent English sentence?
"informations" is incorrect.
However, we have noticed some discrepancies regarding your
account at Paypal. Possible causes are inaccurate contact information and
invalid logout process.
-Actually, chude, the problem lies with you. You don't know anything about my
account, and that's a good thing.
We require you to complete an account verification procedure as part of our
security measure.
You must click the link below to complete the process.
(malicious link deleted)
-Actually no... Paypal never sends out emails requiring anyone to click a link.
This bogus email is what is known as phishing, where a spammer uses a malicious
link to try getting people's information for purposes of anything from sending
them more junk email to taking over their computer to use as a zomby spammer.
So no, chude, I don't want your malware or my computer to serve in your stupid
spamming outfit, so refuse to click your stupid link.
Unable to do so may result to abnormal account behavior during
transactions.
-Bull. Actually, clicking that link would likely result in one's computer
getting creamed and their details sold to tons of spammers all over the net.
Thank you for using PayPal!
-You're not Paypal, so I don't know why it matters to you one way or another
whether I or this fictional Kefka chude uses Paypal.
The PayPal Team
-No, you're not the Paypal team...
Blacklisted.
Via Mailwasher I was able to look and laugh at the message w/o any harm to my
system, and then blacklist the spammer.
Return-path: YourJersey@marriagesocialist.com
-MarriageSocialist? - I'm not looking to get married, and am not a socialist or
interested in marrying one.
From: FootballJersey FootballJersey@tfqxs.marriagesocialist.com
Subject: Who is your favourite Football team
-None - as well as none of your business...
Visit-us here, if you cannot view the image below.
-Nope, chude, not interested in your malware... Site deleted.
Blacklisted.
http://www.canada.com/vancouverisland/nanaimo/story.html?id=4f7749de-8e18-487b-948e-8b30bf42b78a
Furthermore, it's also a rip-off of the Evan Trembley hoax.
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/evantrembley.html which was started as a
sick joke on Myspace by the real and not missing Evan Trembley himself.
It borrows content from the Ashley Flores hoax
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/ashleyflores.html
which was started by one of the real and not missing Ashley's friends on Myspace
as a sick joke, and borrows heavily from the Penny Brown hoax
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/pennybrown.html
which is a mutation of the Kelsey Brook Jones chain, which was true for the two
hours that kelsey was thought missing. Kelsey was found playing, and unharmed
two hours after her mother's initial panic.
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/kelsey.html
http://www.breakthechain.org/missing.html
People who start hoaxes like that should be penalized, because they are getting
very sick kicks at others' expense!
It's manipulative, attention-seeking behavior on a level that is so low and
disgusting because people are getting jerked around just so a few childish teens
can get their haw-haws.
Ignorance or lack of forethought as no excuse.
Playing pranks on your friends in a social network like Myspace is bad enough,
but when it's in the form of a chain letter, it's not going to stay just among
the friends of the hoaxter. This is because your circle of friends also has
their own circles of friends, which in turn, have their own circle of friends,
so, you start a hoax about yourself as missing or dying or whatever, and your
friends might think it's funny, but somebody else who is listed as one of their
friends but not listed as your friend, looks at this friend's profile and
bulletins, and this stranger looking at your friend's profile, sees your
missing/dying hoax and assumes it's for real, and compulsively passes it along
to their friends, who pass it on to theirs.
So, yet more reasons chain letters really stink, and why starting a hoax might
get you the controll over the masses and the attention you desire, but it could
also land you and those associated with you in a pile of inconvenience if not
trouble.
I'm very sorry for anyone these hoaxes have hurt, from those who were taken in
by them, (hopefully they'll know better than pass on chain email from now on) to
those who are friends of or related to the hoaxter and suffering fallout because
of the hoax.
But as for the hoaxters themselves, I wish they would get a lot more than just a
slap on the wrist for their self-serving, inconsiderate and just plain sick
actions.
Evan Trembley was exceedingly stupid to start a hoax about himself, as was the
friend of Ashley Flores. The guy who mooched off the Trembley hoax and made it
about himself as a missing kid in Nanaimo is just as guilty. Shame on them!
Full article about the Nanaimo prank:
http://www.canada.com/vancouverisland/nanaimo/story.html?id=4f7749de-8e18-487b-948e-8b30bf42b78a
Missing Nanaimo Teen Email is a Big Hoax
Nanaimo Daily News Missing teen e-mail is a big hoax
Plea urging people to look out for Nanaimo boy is a prank that first began in
Texas
Derek Spalding , Daily News
Published: Thursday, October 11, 2007
Nanaimo RCMP say its unfortunate that someone is circulating a fake missing
person notice through e-mail accounts.
Thousands of Harbour City residents have recently received a message in their
inbox about a missing teenager from Nanaimo, but the chain mail is nothing but a
hoax. The message asks recipients to please "pass this to everyone in your
address book" in hopes that someone will have seen 15-year-old Evan Trembley.
After a simple Internet search, however, the real story behind the prank is
revealed.
Evan Trembley of Wichita, Falls, Tex, created a fake Amber Alert with himself as
the missing person. He then sent it out to his friends on MySpace.com. Then a
few people who didn't know it was a joke, sent the e-mail out to everyone on
their list. Police exposed Trembley who said he thought his "friends would
recognize it, get a laugh out of it" and delete it, he told reporters in
Wichita.
****But then people who weren't his friends took it seriously and continued to
e-mail all their friends. Trembley and his mother Tammy said they do not expect
any criminal charges.
It appears someone in Nanaimo decided to localize Trembley's prank and
distributed it throughout the city. Using the same photo and similar
information, Trembley now appears to be a missing Nanaimo boy. This week, the
e-mail reached Robin Dutton, owner of Arrowsmith Bikes, who then forwarded it to
more than 300 people on his mailing list.
"I just thought, if somebody's missing, it doesn't take a whole lot for me to
send it out to everyone in my address book," he said before expressing his
disappointment in the hoax. "I just think it's really unfortunate. I'd like to
think that people have a bit more to do rather than waste people's time."
DSpalding@nanaimodailynews.com
250-729-4231
Site 1.
McCann's hire car examined by experts
Brisbane Times - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia
A team of forensic scientists have reportedly made independent tests on a
hire car rented by the parents of missing British girl Madeline McCann. ...
http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/mccanns-hire-car-examined-by-experts/20074630-11s5.html
-Okay, summary looks good, it's probably one of the more sensible writeups in a
while.
Site 2.
Girl in photo not Madeleine McCann
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
PARENTS of missing British girl Madeleine McCann were being consoled by
friends last night after being given the devastating news that a holiday
snap ...
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22493955-663,00.html
-The stupid media should not have splashed little Bushra's picture all over the
world and assumed she was Madeline in the first place! Not only have they wasted
a lot of people's time and attention on a claim that isn't real, they added to
the torment of Maddeleine's family! Gads, but you police and news reporters are
inconsiderate, bumbling idiots!
Site 3.
A sacked maid seeking revenge is latest suspect over missing ...
Times Online - UK
A maid who is alleged to have abducted Madeleine McCann in revenge for
being sacked from the holiday resort where the missing girl was staying is
being ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2563493.ece
-Whoever came up with this hair-brained theory? Oh, right, the brain-dead police
again! Next thing you know, there will be reports that the Great Pumpkin took
her, then Santa did it, then the Easter Bunny. Please, don't waste any more time
and energy until something has been proven before spouting this unbelievable
dreck!
Site 4.
How the Portugese police say Madeleine in fall on a staircase
This is London - London,England,UK
Madeleine McCann died in a fall down a flight of stairs at her parents'
holiday apartment, Portuguese police claimed yesterday in the latest leak
from ...
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23414439-details/How+the+Portugese+police+say+Madeleine+in+fall+on+a+staircase/article.do
-Well, doesn't everybody know how reliable the Portuguese police are by now? You
stupid cops are all over the map, you have no idea what you're doing, and the
gullible media, desperate for a story, any story, truth be damned, will print
anything, not caring how it hurts the McCann family and their friends!
Site 5.
Maddy McCann My Nightmares Part 4
This Gross Nightmare About Maddy McCann with a Horrible Bloody Hand Still Keeps
Periodically Reoccurring. It Really Freaks Me Out.
http://digg.com/world_news/Maddy_McCann_My_Nightmares_Part_4
-Oh, but it's digg.com... You have to click through digg to actually get to the
article - nope, sorry, don't want to read it that badly. Anyway, for the one who
wrote it: try to calm down, okay?
Site 6.
Maid Up Stories, Avoid the Questions
By transfattyacid(transfattyacid)
If this is yet another red herring, in a week of red herrings from the McCann
camp, it does have an advantage over the Maddie in Morocco story. The matter is
being investigated by the British police, and they are unlikely to hurry any ...
http://trannyfattyacid.blogspot.com/2007/09/maid-up-stories-avoid-questions.html
-Erm, okay, so we agree about the media being bungling idiots. But I'm not sure
what your take is on the McCanns themselves.
Site 7.
If Madeleine McCann was Black, Would the Media Care?
By ExpatJane(MLH)
If Madeleine McCann was Black, Would the Media Care?Madeleine McCann, who you've
no doubt heard has been missing over in Europe, is a white British four-year-old
whose disappearance has sparked a massive global media focus. ...
http://missingminorities.blogspot.com/2007/09/if-madeleine-mccann-was-black-would.html
-What's black and white got to do with Madeleine McCann!? Oh, please, give me a
pickin break!!
The reason the world knows about Madeleine McCann at all is because of a chain
email one of her relatives started - a chain email that, for once, isn't a hoax!
-Yes, if she was black, and it was the same story and it was for real and if a
relative had started a chain email and everybody heard about it, everybody would
care just as much!
-Sheesh! Why in the heck is it that some apparently bigoted attention-hogs with
their own racist agendas always have to go throwing the race card and silly
pity-parties into things!? So now, tell me, should we all of a sudden just stop
praying that Madeleine will be found alive or at the very least, didn't suffer a
horrible death because she's not black? Should we wish she's dead because she's
not black? Should we just forget all about any other missing kids we are told
about if they happen not to be black? Should we only be on the look out for
missing kids if they are black and simply shrug off and refuse to even consider
trying to help out if a picture shows a missing kid who isn't black? Are we
supposed to only care about missing kids if they are "the right color" for you
now? Sheesh! I'm not even going to read your crummy site! This isn't about wite
and black! Stop trying to turn it into that and just please go away if you
aren't interested in helping find missing kids regardless of skin color! ARGH!
Comment on Open Thread: A photo of Madeleine McCann? by TobyRose
By TobyRose
It is odd that Kate McCann announced Madeleine had been abducted before a search
was done for her in the complex. It seems she was trying to convince people of
that. A mother's first reaction to a missing child is that the child has ...
http://crimeblog.us/?p=566#comment-64196
-Uhm no, I'd think that would be one of the initial reactions of any parent
whose kid went missing from a motel room!
-Not cool. The name 'Cedric' shouldn't appear anywhere in any part of a
spammer's identity.
From: "Robert Bravo" me@myisp.com
Reply-To: "Robert Bravo" me@myisp.com
-Robert Bravo? Robber Boo-Hiss more likely! Definitely not, not, not, NOT COOL
forging my address!!!
Subject: Make a gift for your wife
-I'm a girl, you idiot!
At Our Store, we specialize in the sales of
brand name quality look alike timepieces,
(Snip rest of advertising babble)
-Dude: if you think I'm going to promote your cruddy web site and buy phony
status watches at your cruddy store after you forged my address, you need your
head examined - with an application of a combo of itching and sneezing powder!
Thank you,
-You forged my address. You're not welcome!
Amr Mapara
-Huh? But I thought you said your name was Robert Bravo?
Click to be removed. You will be removed within 6 8 Hours
-Bull!
-Buh-bye Robert Amr Mapara Boo-Hiss!
Blacklisted!
-Hello GSimon Sonia.
To: sanju100@isp.org, santa@isp.org, me@isp.org
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:11:35 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Hey Shawn
-So I'm Shawn now. Lol. Okay, I can handle that, it's a girl's name as well as a
guy's.
Trading Alert for tomorrow,
ticker-chvc
See all the volume, GET IN
Faye
-Wait a minute, I thought you said you were GSimon Sonia?
-Well, Faye Sonia G Simon, I couldn't care less about your trading alerts.
Bye.
Blacklisted.
Return-path: waparvenu@dbass1.fsnet.co.uk
Reply-To: "Abe Caudill" waparvenu@dbass1.fsnet.co.uk
From: "Abe Caudill" waparvenu@dbass1.fsnet.co.uk
Subject: hey mate
-Hello Abe Caudill.
To: omar@isp.org, fred@isp.org, me@isp.org, ger@isp.org
yo Gregorio
-So now I'm...Gregorio? *Rolling eyes* I liked "Shawn" better.
Leader for this week,
call-chvc
This is an easy tripler
Andre
-No Abe Andre Caudill, I already told your friend Fae Sonia G Simon I wasn't
interested in your precious chvc, so you can't do anything to change my mind
either.
-Bye.
Blacklisted.
No kidding, that's what this sorry jerk is proposing according to these
articles.
This Guy Will Ask Spammers To Stop...
WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA
I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It
will reduce the volume of spam by 30-50% .In return Id like to ask you to
put a ...
http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/09/05/this-guy-will-ask-spammers-to-stop-spamming-you
Trust me, I KNOW spammers...
By xinit
I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It will
reduce the volume of spam by 30-50% .In return Id like to ask you to put a link
to my site on the index page of your site. The link will be small and your ...
http://foo.ca/wp/2007/09/05/trust-me-i-know-spammers/
bankrupt artist v.3
Comment on This Guy Is The Friend of Spammers! He Will Ask Them To ...
By Caydel
Somehow, it appears I managed to post it first... w00t! Although,
has the best write up.
http://feeds.sphinn.com/~r/sphinncomments/~3/152628346/4678
Sphinn: Comments
What Will Blog Spammers Think Of Next
By WICKO
if you have a blog, you see the daily comment spam, but have you ever received
this kind of offer.
http://blog.linkworth.com/what-will-blog-spammers-think-of-next/
* * *
Full article:
hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,
I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them
not to post on your site. It will reduce the volume of spam by 30-50% .In return
Id like to ask you to put a link to my site on the index page of your site. The
link will be small and your visitors will hardly notice it , its just done for
higher rankings in search engines. Contact me icq 454528835 or write me
tedirectory@yahoo.com , i will give you my site url and you will give me yours
if you are interested. thank you
* * *
No deal, Rick, dude! I'm not spamming my own site with your link, and I don't
want anyone telling me what to put on my sites for any reason or in exchange for
anything. And if you know a lot of spammers and personally can contact them,
then why the heck aren't you really doing something to help isps rid the
internet of them? Doesn't say much for your own character, does it, hmmmm?
You're a spammer yourself, and if anything, in competition with the others.
Besides, if I refuse to put your lousy link up on my site, you could always do
the opposite of what you promise and actually spam on your own or get other
spammers to spam, which I have full confidence you would be petty enough to do.
So forget it, I'm not buying that load of rotten potatoes from you.
I'll just laugh at your pathetic attempt at boosting your ego by trying to get
the highest rankings in search engines. You have no life. I suggest you get one,
quick!
-Hello Sarah J
Subject: No one has to know about our little secret.
-What little secret? Not that it matters, this subject line is a huge laugh
considering you probably spammed massive numbers of isps with your "little
secret" doesn't that make it, uhm, no longer a secret, hmm?
Do you have a special date coming up?
-Such as?
Maybe a wedding, anniversary or the birthday of your 15 year-old daughter...
-yeah, though the wedding is my niece's and it's only happening next year. Her
birthday, and that of my sister (her aunt) is coming up, and my mom's a month
later, why?
These are the perfect times to give them themost unforgettable gift of all:
-Okay, hold up - what is a "themost" and what makes it different from other
unforgettable gifts?
JEWELS and WATCHES.
-You've got to be kidding right? This was your little secret? Selling fake
Rolexes? Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
-Lousy web site deleted.
Nothing says "I love you" better than a 2 thousand dollar watch,
Chick, if that's what you think, you are sad.
BUT you will not pay that much.
-That's right, because I'm not buying a watch from you or any of your spammer
pals.
Because there is a handmade replica place just for you, all widely-known brands
and models.
For girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands and wives.
With our promotion you can even get one for your mother-in-law!
-Wow, that's some little secret!
-I told your pals, Marlon and Kathy I think it was, I wasn't interested in their
replica watches, and the same goes for you.
GET THE PROMOTION YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!
Augh! *Runs to find something to stop ears and eyes from bleeding* Do you have
to shout so loud!? Anyway, you didn't think I'd delete your stupid site if you
put it in this email twice, did you? But I did. I'm not interested in any
promotions from you, nor will I promote you, except maybe as a nominee for the
president of the pea-brain section of the Dimwit Club.
Have a nice Day!
-Too bad I can't wish you the same.
Blacklisted.
Argh!
I had to go through all that because a few messages from my friends were
mistaken by my isp for spammers!
Sifting through all those messages and making sure to sort the few friend
messages from the mass of spammers wasn't exactly my idea of passing time
online.
But while I slogged through this task, I found more spammers to laugh at
just because their subject lines were so absurd, they were hilarious!
I did get my friends' emails out of quarantine and back into my inbox, so
that was good, too.
Before I read them, however, presenting hilarious spammer subject lines! Who
do they think they're kidding? And they continually fail to realize that a
girl can be online!
chapman@piercegrobler.co.za LOL, dude what are you doing Aug 27 2.9 KB
-Uhm Chapman, dude...I'm not a dude, and if you knew what I did with your
spam, you probably wouldn't lol.
fssdfmmuty@progressive-rehab.com Dude, what if your wife finds this? Aug 27
3.3 KB
-Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Look, dude, I'm a girl, you ignoramus!
So - I can't have a wife unless I'm gay, which I'm not, so get that
straight! If you think only married men get on the net, I feel sorry for
YOUR wife, very, VERY sorry for her!
David O. Eastman My boyfriend's (cut rest - TMI)
-But your name is David...
Willis R. Mcdaniel When I tried to give him (some disgusting thing nobody
with self-respect would do in the first place let alone broadcast to the
internet)
-But your name is Willis...
Troy Meyers Olny this 5 days special price on pharma for you dear customer
Aug 27 4.5 KB
Rosie Lucas Olny this 5 days special price on pharma for you dear customer
Aug 27 4.7 KB
-Troy and Rosie, please go back to school, please, please , please!
ward@chaiyaboon.com Dude dont send that stuff to my home email... Aug 27 3.2
KB
-Uhm Ward, dude, when on earth did I ever send anything to you since I never
heard of you before? Why would I even want to send "that stuff" whatever it
is to you? And last, but not least, take your own advice, you silly,
spamming hypocrite!
caroline.pappn@whatsup.ca HAHAHAHAHAHA, man your insane! Aug 27 3.4 KB
-So cowardly Caroline the spammer insults strangers with this subject line,
and I'm the one insane? I don't think so! Uh Caroline, chick, you won't get
anyone even mildly curious about what's in your worthless spam mail with a
subject line like that. What an airhead!
You've seen me sound off plenty in here about spam.
But you can go to this site and read an entry by someone who's really
mastered the art of msting the heck out of the spammers, and telling them
like it is. Lol!
http://centralsnark.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/dear-crummy-email-spammers/
Good going, I love it!
http://articles2.org/e-commerce/chain-emails-hateem/
Chain Emails, Hate'em!
This week I received for the hundredth time a chain email that's appallingly
stupid. This one announces the closing of Hotmail.com, the popular free
email service. As it explains, the user must send the chain email to all of
his/her friends in order to avoid the cancellation of the service. It goes
like this: since hotmail.com administrators don't know who is really using
the service nor the real popularity of it, they are sending this email to
contact all their users and find out if the service is being used and then
decide if they keep the service active or close it, because of the economic
problems they were having. This is just one of the versions I've received.
Obviously, this is not going to happen. Hotmail is the most popular free web
mail service and they don't have any plans to cancel their services. Sadly,
this is just one of the many chain emails I've received. Issues range from
free gifts from notorious companies to good luck promises, help for sick
kids, free money, free software, etc.
What fundamentally bothers me about these chain emails are two things:
first, the time and resources that are wasted sending these pointless
emails; second, the nonsense people swallow.
E-mail is one of the most used Internet tools, and it's a real shame to fill
it with trash that only wastes people's time. This is one of the main
reasons why some companies limit internet access to employees, because
instead of raising productivity, web hosting servers get loaded with trash.
But of all the chain emails I've received, the ones that annoy me the most
are those that say things like "If you send this to 10 friends, you will
receive a surprise, if you send it to 20 friends…" People that send me these
emails not only make me waste my time filling my inbox with useless stuff,
but they go and promise me happiness and good luck (some even threaten me!)
for continuing the chain.
For all of those that follow these chains, let me tell you, you are just
wasting your time and that of others: hotmail is not going to stop service,
you are not going to help any kid with cancer, you are not going to receive
any money nor (please!!) are you going to have any luck as you send your
stupid chain email to more accounts.
If you too are annoyed by this trash, you can use the following answer, and
probably some of these guys will get the idea:
"I just received your chain email. About 1,000 people have sent me chain
emails and every one of them has died in the following 6 months, probably
caused by the 'Chain email curse'. You will probably die soon if you
experience any of the following symptoms: 1) tiredness at night, 2) Hunger
just before eating, 3) Inability to remember your license plate number, 4)
stupidity".
Founder and actual CEO, Ricardo d'Argence has been in the field for more
than ten years. Alojate.com is now one of the biggest web hosting providers
in Mexico.
www.alojate.com
Keep Up With Spam Scams
Wall Street Journal - USA
If spammers send out a million messages, and 2% of the people buy the
stock, it will go up. But the spammers bought the stock first, and so they
can ride it ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118826159801810399.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
See all stories on this topic:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118826159801810399.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_wsj
Storm worm shifts path to fake YouTube links
TechSpot - USA
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com In yet another twist to the Storm worm
nuisance, spammers are using fake YouTube links to trick users into
downloading ...
http://www.techspot.com/news/26775-storm-worm-shifts-path-to-fake-youtube-links.html
See all stories on this topic:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://www.techspot.com/news/26775-storm-worm-shifts-path-to-fake-youtube-links.html
A Clean New Internet?
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
It will be interesting to see how the new network will keep out the
hackers, spammers, and loudmouths who are causing it to be built in the
first place. ...
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/a_clean_new_int.html
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Storm Worm Spreads In YouTube Spam
WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA
McAfee researcher Vinoo Thomas said on the Avert Labs blog that the
spammers now use a couple of ways to get the worm onto someone's system.
...
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/08/27/storm-worm-spreads-in-youtube-spam
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Stiff-Arm the Stock Spammers
Motley Fool - USA
Spammers are now disguising their pitches as stock reports published as PDF
files, hoping to avoid the suspicion typically reserved for miracle drugs
and ...
http://www.fool.com/personal-finance/general/2007/08/27/stiff-arm-the-stock-spammers.aspx
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Nuclear Lab Web Site Used By Spammers Selling Phony Meds
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
The spammers used incomprehensive gobbledygook in the ads advertising
erectile dysfunction and sleep aid medications. By W. David Gardner
Lawrence Livermore ...
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201802487
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Spammers use YouTube to spread Storm worm
Builder AU - Australia
By Liam Tung, ZDNet Australia | 2007/08/27 13:49:02 In yet another twist to
the Storm worm menace, spammers are using a fake YouTube site to trick
users ...
http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Spammers_use_YouTube_to_spread_Storm_worm/0,339028227,339281510,00.htm
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Storm Worm Uses YouTube Ruse
PC Magazine - USA
Spammers are distributing the Storm Trojan via e-mails purporting to be
from friends and containing a false link to a YouTube video. ...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2176469,00.asp
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Kerman Telephone Selects Xangati to Improve Operational ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
After months of searching for a solution, the service provider purchased
the Xangati RPI solution to unearth spammers who were inappropriately using
...
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070827005051&newsLang=en
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Dear Crummy Email Spammers,
By crummyjoel
No. No, I do not want to "3nlaarge my Peni5 . Thank you for caring enough to
email me about it no less than three hundred and fifty-six thousand four
hundred and twenty-one times, but I've had quite a number of opportunities
to mull it ...
http://centralsnark.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/dear-crummy-email-spammers/
Central Snark
http://centralsnark.wordpress.com
Fight Back Against Spammers
WWW Robots (also called wanderers, spiders, crawlers, or bots) are programs
that crawl the Web continually retrieving linked pages. When a spammer's bot
visits your website, blog, forum, etc, all pages and sites linked to it will
be ...
http://www.first.org/newsroom/globalsecurity/144239.html
Forum of Incident Response and...
http://www.first.org/newsroom/globalsecurity/
stopping comment spammers in their tracks
By Colleen
In this case though, the site doesn't appear to be a legit business, just a
website with links to mortgage companies. Don't let spammers ruin your
blog - stop them in their tracks by letting them know you won't tolerate
D-list spam and ...
http://www.geekyspeaky.com/2007/08/28/stopping-comment-spammers-in-their-tracks/
GeekySpeaky.com - gaming, SEO,...
http://www.geekyspeaky.com
How Spammers Get Your Mail ID And What You Can Do If Spammed
By SunSeven
Every day we get spam mails from unknown persons. Sometimes we delete them
without reading, and at best we report these messages as spam to the
respective email providers. Have you ever wondered from where these people
get your mail ids ...
http://www.indianpad.com/story/93782
IndianPad - All Stories
http://www.indianpad.com
Agents Becoming Spammers
By Aaron Dickinson
Yes, the market is slow. Yes, the showing activity has fallen. Yes, housing
activity is at record highs. No, agents should not Spam each other for
things already in the MLS. Agents are running scared now with sellers that
are very ...
http://www.twincitiesrealestateblog.com/2007/agents-becoming-spammers/
Twin Cities Real Estate Blog
http://www.twincitiesrealestateblog.com
Did Spammers Fuel the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis?
By Dan Gray
Did spammers fuel the sub-prime mortgage crisis? This is no common
conspiracy theory, my friends. It's common sense. Indulge me if you will and
take a gander at the raft of unsolicited mortgage offers that fill your
inbox. ...
http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/technobabble/2007/08/27/did-spammers-fuel-the-sub-prime-mortgage-crisis/
Technobabble
http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/technobabble
Beware of "War Drivers" and "War Spammers"
By Catherine
... "War Drivers" have emerged - folks who hack into these home wireless
networks. These hackers literally drive around town searching for wireless
networks to which they can connect..." link: Beware of "War Drivers" and
"War Spammers"
http://flyinghamster.com/post/44614
Flying Hamster
http://flyinghamster.com/
Beware of "War Drivers" and "War Spammers"
As many more American households are now opting for the convenience of
wireless networks, "War Drivers" have emerged - folks who hack into these
home wireless networks.
http://www.wjtv.com/gulfcoastwest/jtv/news.apx.-content-articles-JTV-2007-08-27-0004.html
News Channel 12 - Local News
http://www.wjtv.com
startlogic are spammers
By whoo
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startlogic are spammers startlogic are spammers.
http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2007/08/27/startlogic-spam/
village-idiot.org
http://www.village-idiot.org
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Gender: Female
Status: Divorced
Age: 34
Sign: Taurus
State: Ohio
Country: US
Signup Date:
03/05/2006
08/26/2007
CHAIN LETTERS: EXTREMELY ANNOYING, ALL FORMS, ALL TYPES!!
I liked chain letters when I was about 10 years old. Get a chain letter in
the mail and send it to 5 of your friends and watch it all go and come
around again. That's when I was about 10 years old.
Then we all got older and it seemed to have disappeared. I don't know if
chain letters actually disappeared or if we were just too old to care
anymore.
The first time I got a chain letter text message on my cell phone, I thought
the sender was a total do-do head. Maybe it was just something unusual. Then
I started getting them from different people, both male and female. I'm glad
that I pay for a text message bundle and I don't have to pay for message
after message, message after message. Um, please, stop sending this stuff to
me. It only makes me wonder why my so-called friends do this stuff!!!
E-mail text messages, too. Here, I'm thinking that I have a letter from a
dear friend and its B.S! I appreciate some people thinking of me. Oh, wait,
they are not thinking of me or wishing me good luck or health and happiness.
They are running out of people to send the chain letter to!
MySpace chain letter bulletins! Here we go again. "Re-post this bulletin
again to wish love on the world or to show God your love." Sometimes I will
re-post it for someone if they are a friend.
What's shocking to me is the number of guys who do this. If I'm thinking its
annoying or childlike for women to do, I cannot understand why a guy would
do it!
CHAIN LETTERS: EXTREMELY ANNOYING, ALL FORMS, ALL TYPES!! Who agrees with me
on this? If you agree, copy this blog and send it to ALL your MySpace
friends or put in it a bulletin. Don't forget to send it through e-mail.
Next send it through text messages. Then get addresses out of the phone book
and send it to everyone through the mail until you have spent your life
savings on paper, ink, envelopes and stamps!
I was just kidding about that, if you didn't know it.
1:20 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos
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-Well, I don't have a Myspace account, so I'll kudo this person here
instead. Great post! I also liked these entries.
Don't tell it all-do you want a stalker??
If you are someone who reads my profile alot, you know that I put my
interests up and take 'em out and put 'em up. I'm taking them down again.
MySpace is not a personals site and I feel like its a personals site when I
display all that info about me. I know MySpace is supposed to be for
networking. Am I gonna really get a new friend because we both like "The Two
Coreys" or we both listen to Robin Thicke? I don't think so. A fansite may
be used more for something like that. And definately a profile advertising a
business. I am not trying to advertise my self. I've had a wonderful time on
MySpace getting in touch with old friends and associates. I do enjoy the
entertainment of MySpace and seeing how different people did thier profiles.
I've also written about the dangers, large and small, about telling all of
our business on MySpace. Small dangers like someone pretending to know you
by telling you about yourself by getting the info off of your page. Large
dangers such as someone knowing your name, location, family, etc , etc. I
have to be careful about that, too.
8:57 AM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos
Time to filter out friends again
I've filtered out my MySpace friends before based on the R-rated contents on
their profile, their R or X-rated profile pix, and just to clean out the
friends. (I've been past that "OOh, I want to have a big number of friends
on here" for a while.) Now I'm filtering out for my own benefit. I'm tired
of seeing Bulletins like "Ni@@as in the House" or "How to eat p*ssy right",
"Why women are b*tches" etc, etc. If a person has over 40 friends on here,
they probably won't even know-and if they are not my friend in real life,
I'm sure they don't care.
2:09 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos
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-Kudos!
There is another Myspace blogger who's as sick of chain letters as the
person above and as I am. But I can't post her entry as she wrote it
exactly, neither do I want to just point anyone to her site, because,
erm...Well - because of some lingo problems, and I had other additional
ideas and it just needed a bit of touching up IMO.
If you want to read it the way she originally wrote it, go ahead, it's at
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=147510429&blogID=304020484
But be forewarned, you may not like it as much as the edited one below.
From KRISTA
with some edits, additions and modifications by yours truly
KRISTA's myspace info:
Gender: Female
Status: Married
Age: 31
Sign: Capricorn
City: MINNEAPOLIS
State: Minnesota
Country: US
Signup Date:
11/01/2007
Monday, August 27, 2007
Email forwards
Ok, first I have to admit that there was a time, probably a good 10 years
ago, when I was pretty "e-gullible," if you will, and I believed the warning
emails I received, and I passed them along to my friends and family, out of
genuine concern no doubt.
It took ONE response from someone saying, basically, umm, yeah, tardo...
this is a hoax - check it out.... to get me to stop forwarding those damn
things.
So WHY is it that there are a few people who just can't stop? I swear that
if someone sent them the following, they'd forward it:
WARNING!!! LADIES, THIS IS IMPORTANT, SO BE SURE YOU FORWARD IT TO EVERY
DAMN PERSON YOU KNOW.
Whatever city you live in, there is a guy there named Chuck who likes to
flash headlights and slash at people's ankles with an axe. He has been
targeting women with extremely huge butts, thin lips, skinny limbs, and
greasy, matted, dandruff-laden hair. He puts razor blades in their food and
arsenic in their beverages, and he goes online and tries to lure their
daughters into underage cybersex, and he has poison perfume samples, tapes
of babies crying, and terrible BO because he doesn't use cancer-causing
de-odorant! He likes to microwave plastic, which we all know causes cancer
as well, and he would like your money for Katrina and 911 victims, and he is
working with the terrorists and the Mexicans (who we think are in cahoots
anyway), and he could be hiding in the back seat of your car right now,
waiting to slash your ankles and snatch your daughter or niece or any
under-age girl who gets into the car with you, and this would never have
happened if only our children were allowed to pray in school, and you had
passed on every single good-luck friendship chain letter you ever received,
to every single email address you ever heard of!
WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T GO TO YOUR CAR! PASS THIS ALONG TO EVERYONE YOU
KNOW. IT MIGHT SAVE THEIR LIFE. AND IF YOU DON'T PASS IT ALONG, I AM GOING
TO TELL CHUCK AND HE WILL NO DOUBT COME FIND YOU BECAUSE HE KNOWS YOU HAVE
AN ENORMOUS butt, thin lips, skinny limbs, and that you never wash your
hair!
P.S.: God bless America!!!!!!
For the love of all things good, please don't send on this stuff to anybody.
Please!
And when I repeatedly reply back to you and everyone else you forwarded it
to saying "this is a hoax," don't get mad at me because you are a moron and
can't figure out that John's Hopkins University would not publish a cancer
study (with several misspelled words) in the form of a chain email.
Don't get hot under the collar when I use the "reply-all" function in my
email to debunk a hoax that was sent to me by someone who put you, me, and
everybody else under the sun in their list of email address for passing on
junk to. I didn't get your address by myself, nor was I the one stupid
enough to pass on the chain letter to you in the first place! Want to get
mad at somebody for exposing your precious address to the whole world in the
Cc field, yell at the idiot who sent the chain letter to both of us in the
first place!
Do not send me this shart at work after insisting you need my work email "in
case of emergencies."
Do not forward anything race or religion related. I'm not in the least
paranoid about different races taking over my country and have no tolerance
for people who are!
I know that God does not work through the disreputable means of spam, which
chain email is part. I'm sure some religious hoaxes and chain email rants
are actually originated by anti-Christian twits who just want to see if they
can fool and manipulate religious people into passing on their dreck!!
I know that just because something claims to be from God, doesn't make it
so. Chain email does not come from god, nor is it any substitute or even a
good way of showing what a good friend you are and how much you apparently
care about me!
Don't pass around fake petitions claiming that our children are in danger if
I don't type my name at the bottom of this email and forward it to everyone
I know.
Please don't send stuff about "baby killers" or about marriage being "in
danger" in email forwards.
Please don't send forwards telling me that there will be no social security
left for me because of those blasted Mexicans or whatever race of the month
is currently prey to the racial paranoid chain emails going around.
Please don't send emails with pictures that don't load.... or with pictures
that do (unless they are pictures you actually took).
Quit forwarding videos of some stupid kid putting maxi pads all over
himself, which I think could possibly be construed as child porn.
Stop forwarding stupid quotes supposedly from famous people. 50% are bogus
or misquoted anyway.
Stop passing on lists of supposed facts and trivia. They are often not facts
at all and a trip over to any hoax debunking site can debunk a good lot of
them.
Stop sending these annoying "Getting to know you" surveys that asks an
endless number of pointless, meaningless questions such as what color my
kitchen dishes are and if I like croutons or bacon bits on my salad. (I
don't even like salad.) Those things are so long and time consuming, and the
questions differ just a bit with every time these surveys come around, I'm
sick of getting them, nor could I remember all of my friends' answers to
those pointless questions let alone care to fill out the infernal thing as
well, only to get another one almost like it a week later!
Don't send me joke forwards! I know they are still chain email, especially
after getting the same stupid jokes in my email from different sources
twenty times within the last ten years! There are plenty of humor sites
where all the forwarded jokes are archived! If you like them, go there and
have fun, but please, don't circulate more copies of it all over the net.
Don't send the chain letter that offers excuses for sending chain email!
I.E. "I care about you. So, I forward jokes. Now, if you care about your
friends, please pass this on to let them know, and next time you get a joke
in your email, please please please know someone cares very very very deeply
for you! Pass this on and share the caring!"
Stop forwarding any religious whining chain email that tells me Christianity
is in danger and I can save it and be a better Christian and show everybody
else what a good Christian I am by passing on the chain and spamming
everyone with copies of the forward all over the net! I'll scream especially
loud if you send me one that whinges on about how joke emails are being
forwarded many times more than religious chain email because everybody's
afraid to admit to believing in God! I've been on the internet for years. I
can recognize a chain letter manipulation when I see it, and in my
experience, I've received just as many religious chain email forwards as
jokes!
Stop passing on glurge chain email in any form, from stories to make me cry
to poems or sayings about "mom stuff" or "friendship" "I've learned" "I
believe" "A simple friend VS a true friend" "the virtues of a hug" "the
virtues of a smile" "Friendship is like" "Love is like" "If I could catch a
rainbow for you" "Internet ten commandments" "Email prayer of kids" "The
darndest things kids say" "Kids on love" "Kids on the Bible" "How good it is
to be a woman" or anything like that in a forward. If it's a chain letter
forward, it's been around the net and back a million times or it will be
soon, and it's phony!
Please. Please. PLEASE STOP PASSING ON THIS SHART.
Please remember that when you're tempted to send sayings and quotes about
"God" and "His glory." in chain email forwards!
If you want to send me religious content, you're welcome to if it comes from
your own heart, in your own words, or from anywhere BUT chain email
forwards - provided you know it's something I'm already inclined to agree
with.
What in heck is this society coming to? Kids break bones in car accidents,
should we ban cars too? Kids break bones falling in the living room against
furniture, and break toes running in the house and stubbing them on the legs
of a chair or sofa, good gosh should we ban furniture and living rooms too?
People get injured and suffer broken bones skiing, maybe we should ban ski
resorts and disallow people to ski on any hill as well! Kids fall off
skateboards and have mishaps rollerblading, OMG, gotta get rid of
skateboards and rollerblades too!
Kids get hurt in the playground, woops, we should outlaw playgrounds!
People have always risked injury and gotten hurt millions of ways throughout
all of human history, and it's time to see the ultra pro-ban movements for
what they are, nothing but fear mongering, exploiting any tragic story that
they chance upon in order to further their "Let's ban this! Let's ban that!"
agendas and control and run our lives, and trying to use our children to
scare us into screwing ourselves out of our rights and freedoms to live our
own lives. All the big-brother movements can back the heck off, like
yesterday! Stop scaring us about our food, stop scaring us about our
livelyhoods, stop scaring us about our books, stop trying to ban everything
that might resemble some kind of fun and that might actually *gasp* give us
and our kids some happiness!
