Sunday, October 10, 2004
Spam the spammer
This wonderful piece of spam was delivered to my webmaster address today - well actually, it was delivered three times.
So now, I'm being spammed by people trying to push spamming products on me. This stuff probably isn't any good judging by the fact that he's spamming a non commercial site and seems to have a lot of duplicates in his list.
Note that the originating server has a host name that looks like a DSL or cable subscriber. It's probably some poor idiot with a trojan infested PC. If the provider was one I had heard of I would write a letter to the abuse address asking them to alert their subscriber of the problem. I've done it several times before and coincidentally, the subscriber's PC has always stopped spamming me.
By the way I removed all the e-mail addresses to stop e-mail address harvesters - at least I removed all the addresses I care about.
From selwyn@atcon.com Sun Oct 10 15:43:18 2004
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Received: (qmail 5629 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2004 12:37:51 -0000
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Message-ID: <22fd01c4aec3$1df1bdeb$d46c9c80@atcon.com>
From: Tom Theroux
To: me
Subject: Students email list
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:17:18 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related;
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X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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Are you targeting the student sector? Do you want students to buy your product or visit your website?
Our company has carefully collected an email database, which allows to advertise your product or
service to the audience of 1.7 million US college & university students! This is the most comprehensive
students email database available on the Internet.
All addresses on the database belong to students (18-24 years old), are verified and as a proof of
their origin end with '.edu', which stands for educational institutions.
The database will be delivered to you in a ZIP archive of a 34MB TXT file.
All addresses were collected in September, 2004.
The price we are asking is $370.00. To place an order please proceed to:
Mirror 1: http://www.ksshost.com/edu.php
Mirror 2: http://www.ktthost.com/edu.php
Sincerely,
Tom Theroux
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So now, I'm being spammed by people trying to push spamming products on me. This stuff probably isn't any good judging by the fact that he's spamming a non commercial site and seems to have a lot of duplicates in his list.
Note that the originating server has a host name that looks like a DSL or cable subscriber. It's probably some poor idiot with a trojan infested PC. If the provider was one I had heard of I would write a letter to the abuse address asking them to alert their subscriber of the problem. I've done it several times before and coincidentally, the subscriber's PC has always stopped spamming me.
By the way I removed all the e-mail addresses to stop e-mail address harvesters - at least I removed all the addresses I care about.
# posted by JeremyP : 11:06 pm
