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IT’s the End of the (AOL) World as We Know It

… and I feel fine.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060802/ap_on_hi_te/aol_s_crumbling_walls_36

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Dictionary Attack

Here’s an example of someone trying to find valid email addresses on a particular domain. In this case, there ARE NO VALID ADDRESSES because the client doesn’t use any. It all gets wildcard forwarded to me.

Here are the addresses spammed, all sent from fictitious individuals …

Advertising@
Accounts@
Accounting@
Home@
Contact@
Support@
Mail@
Majordomo@
Sales@
Webmaster@
Billing@
Admin@
Help@
Info@

So you may want to think twice about using any of these, instead of JPeterson@ or salesdept@ or something more obscure.

AOL Doesn’t Want You To Go …

http://www.mercola.com/display/router.aspx?docid=33426

Error 404 Pages

First, Mine, of course, from www.BushWorldTour.com

ERROR 404 – File Not Found

[INDENT]

No there is no page here. There is no page within a hundred kilobytes of here.

I am not worried. And neither should you be.

In fact, as we speak, viruses are committing suicide outside the firewall of this server, and we encourage them to continue doing so.

There is only truth HERE. Al the rest is lies! Lies! Lies!

[/INDENT]

A New Email Address Has Been Added To YOur Account …

I’ve been getting a number of these lately.

SPAM and the Better Business Bureau

I got spam with a tagline for Benchmarkmail.Com:

[SIZE=2]
Hope to hear from you soon,
Alex Moore and International Traders LLC
P.S. It is not SPAM. It is legal advertising campaign, which is legally
working with users who agreed to receive paid advertisments. For more
information – please, refer to www.benchmarkemail.com

[/SIZE]
And when I went to their site, I see the familiar “BBB Reliability Seal” … hmmmph. So I clicked on it just for laughs and found on their report of this business the following.

Nature of Business:
This company’s nature of business is providing the sales of legal forms and agreements.

There seems to be a strong disparity between what the company does and what the BBB lists them as doing. Screenshots of both sites attached.

I’ve dealt with the BBB before, and therefore am not surprised.

Spam Getting Around the Blockade

From: easter ham [killianmcwilliams@net4gold.com]
Re: Your wealth., trowel bayonet

Need money?
Your credit doesn’t matter to us!
Want IMMEDIATE cash to spend ANY way you like, or simply wish to LOWER your monthly payments by a third or more?
Simply fill out this one-minute form…
http://zalmam.com/a62f/

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College / University Diploma Scams

After receiving this email and finding the institution did not even exist, I decided to start a thread about them, starting with this email as the example. It was a sad attempt by someone who was not American (linguistic cues such as area code separate).


Good Day,
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Corrine Childers to the position of University Director.
Corrine will be responsible for overseeing online degree applications and qualifications. As director Corrine will personally contact you regarding our newly offered “Work & Life Experience” university degrees.
We are pleased with our changes to our online university, and want you to become a part of a growing community.
You are receiving this email because our staff feels you qualify for this 2 week degree.
We encouraged you to contact our enrollment department today:
Area Code: 206 Phone: 984-1705

Have a great day
Billy Garcia
Board of Directors
Mannsburgh.Online.University

Classiest. Nigerian. Scam. Ever.

I have a new email address!You can now email me at: johabofbn@yahoo.com

The Presidency,Federal Government Officers for Finance,Senate committe on Finacial Matters, Central Bank of Nigeria and Diplomatic Corps met recently on Reports of frauds, Negligence, Errors and others Transactions by Foreigners about Nigeria image abroad.

The outcome of the summit has prompted the Federal Government to empower only our Bank;First Bank of Nigeria PLC to Identify the owners of the funds yet un-claimed and pay them outright with no delay.The Files and all Documents relating to Foreign-Affairs has been handed over to our Bank.

I,John Aboh has been appointed by the Bank,s Management Authority to supervise this exercise. We are now in operation finding the rightful owners of the funds that has accumulated in Nigeria for years.This execise covers all transactions ever had with Nigerians before or at present.

You are among the beneficiaries we have so far discovered. Only your e-mail address is the only contact information we could retrieve for now from the past records of Stake-Holders who have not been cleared for one payments or the other. The Bank is ready to Transfer the money/fund to any country of your choice when you have replied this mail.

I want to help you pull out this fund to your bank account using the easiest and the quickest method, which have not been made known to you before. By this method, you will open a domiciliary account with this bank(First Bank of Nigeria), your fund would be lodged into this dociliary account and your fund will be paid in directly to any bank of your choice.

After the transfer,you will confirm the fund in your bank account within 5-hours same day. No Cost of Transfer(COT) and no stoppage from any Government departments as the transfer will be done within the bank alone and it is very safe.

Confirm to me through this email address:johnaboho@yahoo.com,your

present/valid account coordinates and amount to be claimed so that I do

not transfer your fund to the wrong Bank Account.

Kindly can help us diserminate this information to others who had had any transaction with Nigeria before to please reach us through this email address above with their details of information as the case may be.

Awaiting your quick response.

Yours truly,

JOHN O. ABOH

john aboh