Geeks Bearing Gifts

Discussion of web ethics, in particular Spam, Scams, Viruses, Pop-Ups & Spyware, AOL, and File Sharing

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]

{Holy Cr@p! This was posted on countless forums}

Fresh dumps with pin codes selling service.

Hello, I am here to offer you the service of selling dumps with pin codes. All dumps are skimmed and can be checked before the selling if you want me to do it. I can offer you dumps from USA and some countries of Europe. The base of the dumps is fresh and renews consantly.
Any bad or dead stuff will be changed right after you contact me and I check it myself.

The prices are:
less than 5 dumps with pin code costs 300$ for each
from 5 to 20 dumps with pin code costs 200$ for each
more than 20 needs to be discussed personally

If you are interested go on and feel free to contact me by ICQ {number removed}.
I accept payments by E-gold.
Looking forward talking to serious people and making business with you.

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