| Author | Message | ||
     Mikej |
Just got this in email, haven't and probably won't open it up all the way to see the mail-trail. Just a cautionary note for you. === begin quote === From: "crisha@trafficbbs.net"<crisha@trafficbbs.net> This is a multi-part message in MIME format Hello, You may have spent much on lots of ways to achieve these - search engine registrations, website promotions, press release, email sending?- Here Traffic BBS presents you a unique method economically and professionally converting a PC into personal message distribution center! Traffic BBS assists you to post your message or ad to over 1,200,000+ message boards on the web worldwide. Along with a hyperlink to your website or email address, a message of your business, product, service or offer will be promptly submitted to targeted bulletin boards. You can expect instant response! Get your business, service, product or offer seen! Best Regards, Crisha Wenston Sales & Marketing www.trafficbbs.net Attachment: (no attachment name) === end quote === And I ain't about to touch that attachment there either, but will foreward it to you only if you want me to. It's still residing on the web-browser email reader. MikeJ ps, the subject line for the email reads: Subject: http://www.badweatherbikers.com/cgibin/discus/ | ||
| Blake |
I got the same one, but no attachment. Fired back a warning, VERY stern. Friggin' spammer!! Any internet savy attorneys care to comment on the legalities of this kind of spam? I'd think it'd be illegal. If not, it should be! | ||
| Mikej |
I'm just sitting like a sniper on a duck pond for the day when someone defames my name or character due to being on some "subscribed" SPAM/porn email list that I didn't subscribe to. Anyway, just thought I'd let you (and anyone else who got one) know about it. As far as mass posting on a subscribed list for commercial gains, I think you can get them on piggyback charges due to their not paying you advertising fees. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Blake... Adding just a little verbage "terms of service" on the main page could constitute a "click through license", which are generally accepted as enforcable. Probably not worth the effort though, these are fly by night shops that are both good at covering their traces, and also careful to keep near zero assets. Unless you have a lawyer bored and looking for something to do, it would not be cost effective. Another approach is what is called a "honeypot", where you create fake links that no human would follow but that a spider or web-bot would merrily follow along. The cgi script on the other end of this link would then spew an infinite stream of data that looked legitimate, but that contained randomly generated and completely false email addresses. The idea is that it so pollutes the spammers accumulated list with noise that the whole thing is thrown away. Don't know if it works or not. Tools to do this are available... I think one is called sugarplum. Again though, it wastes a lot of your time and bandwidth to set it up. | ||
| Lsr_Bbs |
That's beautiful...hell, I got an old linux box laying around doing nothing. Might just hook that bad boy back up and let it do a little reverse spamming...hhmmmmmm. Neil Garretson X0.5 | ||
| Court |
I got the same one. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Neil... Sugar Plum They souped it up since I last looked.. it now (in addition to generating realistic but bogus data and false addresses) throws in lists of email addresses of known spammers  Nice touch, though still a waste of bandwidth in the big scheme of things. | ||
| Blake |
They must have sent the message to all the moderators. |
