Email Spammers
Email spammers
Email Spammers are a real pain of today Internet. How to prevent yourself from email spam. Many times recipients are not cautious enough what results in tons of unwanted messages in their email boxes. Ofcourse there are some general rules you should not break in order not to pass your email address into email spammers' hands.
- Do not disclose your email within websites, at least do not make an active link from it, ie. mailto:blah blah. Robots will harvest your address.
- Do not disclose your email within forums, tick an option to hide your email address.
- Do not use your corporate email to communicate with your friends
- Do not get involved in chain letter schemes, i.e. do not forward stupid messages to all your friends, neither to any of them. It also refers to emails that say if you send this message to many friend then Bill Gates gets ripped off or some kid in some strange country gets food. Get real, forwarding emails will not help any kid. You want to help then find Unicef website and help.
All these above activities cause spam.
Email spam explained
Why not to forward messages? I got so funny picture from my friend and I want to share it with all my mates in the world, why should not I do it? What is wrong with it?
Most of the times this funny picture is originally created and sent by the email spammer. The scheme works as follows:
- spammer creates the email with funny picture
- then sends it to all his friends, yes, email spammers have friends too
- each friend of spammer forwards this email to all his/her friends
- each friend of spammer's friend does the same
- one day the email spammer gets this email back from a friend of your friends who is the friend of spammer and this is a genuine clondike for him/her.
Most of forwarders did not hide recipients' identities. Ooops! This way the spammer gets hundreds of active and genuine email addresses. These email addresses are from everywhere, from big companies, small companies, private people, etc. And now I am to tell what this data base is worth in email spammer's real life. Sending an advertising message to 1000 genuine recipients costs about $100. Remember, our email spammer got real email addresses this way. And after while you start to receive emails with strange offers. Do not ask where these people got your private email address from anymore, because you gave it to them yourself.
Email Spammers' email addresses
Below I am starting a list of all the email spammers I catch. Only verified and proven emails are published, so you can add them to your spammers' lists. Asterisk stands for a wild card, so anything that comes from this domain is to be banned.
wojek@dobrarada.pl, januzi@poczta.onet.pl, *@dobrarada.pl,*linki.pl,sowa-frankfurt@yahoogroups.de sowa-frankfurt@t-online.de, sowa-frankfurt@googlegroups.com, kulturzentrum@yahoogroups.de, kulturzentrum_@yahoogroups.de, kulturzentrum1@yahoogroups.de, sowa-frankfurt@freenet.de, sowa-frankfurt-owner@yahoogroups.de, nonathanepstein@hotmail.com, 55.mail1@web.de, amhlaraartl@gmail.com,
Companies that pay for services of email spammers
Below there is a list of companies that are responsible for spam in your email boxes, i.e. they pay email spammers for sending you spam messages. They are not so innocent as they pretend to be.
1. www.vpxlherbalgrowth.com, recently www.maxgainplus.com, some info from whois datbase: Billing Contact: jiangjiang, xing xing, liao da lian, dalian Beijing 456123, CN, tel: 2345678 , fax: 2345678 , cncliup@21cn.com
What do they do? They have tons of duplicate websites that belong to them or their affiliates, for instance: www.frenidkly.com, www.fisterroot.com, www.alsawelep.com, www.frenetacs.com, cloyswen.com, www.graoutes.com, www.eilefio.com, ettanktos.com, jopies.com, szergine.com, www.sonstui.com and many others. And in your email messages only these affiliate sites appear, because headquaters do not want to be accused of sending spam. Email spam is sent from forged email addresses. Their secure order form lacks https protocol, so your credit card details go to them as well. All affiliate might be involved in phishing schemes as well.
2. buyxpsoft.com. They sell software. They send spam from forged email addresses. They also use 301 redirects in order to hide their identity. I believe they are Internet scams. Their checkout site is https://secure.softmiweb.com. Registrant Contact:
SEO Ecommlatvijaas,
Pasha Adamkus (admin@softmiweb.com),
+371.3713717222762,
Fax: ,
Po Box 3391,
Riga, Riga LV1080,
LV .
They claim to have something in common with soft4download.com. I would not pass my credit card details on this site. They might be involved in money laundering. It might be a case of identity theft, so money goes to a money mule.
3. www.thebongdem.com, - mostly they use gmail accounts in order to send spam; who is behind them? China?
4. viagra, cialis spam
foundspot.com, www.certainson.com, oftenmount.com, blackdone.com, sjoi.rxlovecaptain.com, neighborfill.com, jumpchief.com - who is behind these websites? They use euromedsupport.com as their email service. All of them share the same IP. They also abuse blogspot.com where they place redirections to product page. They seem to be from China. I suspect phishing. Billing Contact of euromedsupport.com: MikeJan, Mike Jan, Wuhan, Wuhan Hebei 115551, CN, tel: 6531788, fax: 6531788, root@euromedsupport.com
propharmasales.com - the same scheme as above. Again server is in China. The use many other domains in order to sell their products. All spam email messages reffer to affiliate sites. Affiliate domains: attevm.com, etc.
5. www.settecltd.com - they use many gmail accounts in order to send their corporate spam
6. www.kingreplication.com - they have many affiliate and duplicated sites as tarkstarc.com, powref.com, nuelig.com, poligaje.com and many others which appear in spam messages. Emails are mostly sent from gmail accounts. check whois database, they are there.
7. gamblinghotdate.com, yourplayinggold.net - who is behind them?
8. www.replicakingwatch.com - Billing Contact: LiMing, Li Ming, NO.38,YongFeng street,Tianchange City,Anhui Province, Tianchange Anhui 239355, CN, tel: 2400568, fax: 2400568, yayun22@163.com. They also have many affiliate sites: www.crittikal.com, www.varaence.com, www.polerieta.com, www.afiloesie.com and many others. Anyway they are responsible for a lot of spam sent from forged email addresses.
9. www.seminar.pl.ua - they send a lot spam emails about making business in Ukraine. They use a lot of free email accounts.