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January 10, 2006

EMAIL Hell - More Stupid Spammer Tricks

by Ferdinand T Cat

We got a new variant of the Nigerian scam today. It purports to be from a U.S. Army soldier wanting to move $26.5 million in funds stolen from Saddam Hussein. It's been in circulation since November of last year; what's new is that we got 10 copies of the same stupid thing in the space of a few seconds. That kind of tends to diminish the believability factor.

Another weird one we've been seeing a lot tells us we're a valued customer and here's a coupon code for 25% off of future purchases. The sites are all prescription drug peddlers, but the names do not inspire any sort of confidence at all:

  • drugging.funky-on-line.net
  • rootdudeonline.info
  • ohiuh.net
  • thunder14.myherb.biz

And my personal favorite: assassinate.happy-sale.com.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat


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Sounds like we move in the same email circles, though you apparently haven't (yet) heard from a couple of my personal favorites:

happyfishcialis (actually, although I'm not sure I trust the website, he probably is one happy fish)
and
free-online-blackjack.studyinslovakia.com (which always makes me wonder what, precisely, Slovakian schools are teaching these days).


Posted by: The Random Yak at January 10, 2006 2:40 PM

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