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Really, really strange spam/phishing/junk emails

Mike Teezie

Mike Teezie

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Nov 20, 2002
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Maybe I've been lucky, but I have never had a problem with spam/junk email.

In the last few days, I've been getting anywhere from 2-8 emails a day, all from different urls. Here are some of them:

cassiekplanea@666angel.com
sparkskstaplea@achat-grenoble.com
perryqfronta@acco.com
bakerrwhena@actiongrafix.com

All different email address, but the emails have the same uber-strange messages.

"The GREAaT American Food Chain, Inc.

Symbl: GAMN
Pricwe: $1 (+32%)
Goal Priice: 2.10 (280% gain)

GAMN is has an incredible business model in a booming sector. Look
around you. Everything is being standardized and franchised. GAMN
is a company specializing in the development and expansion of proven
independent restaurant concepts into multi-unit locations. Business has
been booming!

A huge publicity campaign is beginning and will be supported by some
astounding press releases. It is imperative to get in before the first biig
announcement. Readers, this is the one. Don't miss this chance!


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I don't know what to do about this. I don't go to porn sites, and I haven't started doing anything recently that I've never done before. This is super annoying, because every email sent to my business address gets forwarded to my Blackberry.

I'm extremely clueless about how to deal with this type of thing, so any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Can you set up junk mail filtering on the Blackberry? Just set up a filter that moves any email which includes the word GAMN to the trash.
 
I've been getting a lot of them too, and Gmail hasn't been catching them of late. They always seem to be about little crap stocks that don't seem to go anywhere, like the beginnings of a pump and dump scheme.

I just forward them off to spam@uce.gov and flag them as junk.
 
FIVE this morning when I woke up. All a similar body in the email, but five wildly different email addresses and subject lines.

DIE spammers.
 
I get stupid ammounts of Spam. Gmail tends to catch it, but years of using forums and the such has caught up. For every 100 a day Gmail catches, i'll get 3/4/5 in my inbox. Just one of those things I guess.
 
I get those stock spams all the time. Outlook's Junk Mail filter gets better and better at catching them each month, but I still have to manually delete a number of them every day.

Does anyone else ever get spams that mention the names "Susan Darby" or "Michelle Hoffman"? I get these ALL THE TIME.
 
clayj said:
I get those stock spams all the time. Outlook's Junk Mail filter gets better and better at catching them each month, but I still have to manually delete a number of them every day.

Does anyone else ever get spams that mention the names "Susan Darby" or "Michelle Hoffman"? I get these ALL THE TIME.
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Those sound very familiar. Add to that:

Celina Summers
Morgan Davidson
Sean Wiley
Austin Ramos
Murphy Flynt

Edit: Why do they pick names that sound like porn stars?
 
CorvusCamenarum said:
Why do they pick names that sound like porn stars?
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Because they sound like porn stars.

As for filtering out this stuff, it does become quite difficult. My work mail used to be inundated with all sorts of crap and I'd set up rules that essentially were based on letting people I knew in, vs. trying to stop mail from those I didn't know.

Of course, sometimes it would flag something as junk that wasn't, but in general it worked pretty well. All of that depends, of course, on what you do for a living. I have a pretty set number (50 or so) of domains or users/groups I had to worry about including, so it wasn't too bad to set up the filters.

As for the purpose of these, aside from sheer annoyance, I can't guess. There's always some amount of crap at the bottom (like you show) that make it even more obvious it's not a "real" e-mail.

It's too bad you can't write rules that filter out nonsensical verbiage. On the other hand, then I wouldn't get any of my boss's mail...hmmm, maybe not a bad thing. ;)
 
Yeah, I too have a spam mail problem. I have a Mail Filter set to catch most of it, but some still gets past. Wanadoo/Freeserve/Orange/whatever marks most spam with ***SPAM***, which gets most spam.
 
dextertangocci said:
I get like 1000 spam emails on my Gmail account every week:eek:

Good thing Google has good spam filter:)
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Google's spam filter has been failing as of late. I got 14 spams in my inbox, and like 40 in my spam folder. I'm starting a blog about this. A person on another forum has started a spam poetry blog, in which he blogs every spam poem he gets.
 
They're not all that strange, they're spams for so-called penny stocks in hopes that suckers will buy them and drive up the price and those in the know will sell off and make a profit before the price gets "corrected".

Other than setting up spam filters, there's no much you can do.

Just thank your lucky stars that's all you're getting.
 
I've been getting ones like the OP too, recently. Not that many though.

Before I deleted it all, I had like 560 e-mails in my spam folder on g-mail.
 
eMac4ever said:
I bet you guys can't beat this (click to make larger):

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Beaten. :rolleyes:

In a period of two days. :mad:

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Do I Win?

1 months' worth:

doiwinpr0.jpg


I should note that ALL of the Inbox is junk too, just not caught by the spam filter.

That's approximately 299 a day. :(
 
Weird. I've NEVER had any spam before until about a month ago. Now I get these same ones like eight times a day. I also get a second, extremely disturbing set of spam that I can't post here. They would be extremely horrible if they weren't so comically written. It's like they put a bunch of monkeys in a room with a list of dirty words and let them type out emails.
 
I'd assumed the idea of these emails was to be a lot more difficult for the filters to pick up. While they may make no sense to us, to the filters they look like perfectly sensible emails.

That said, I've never seen one outside of the "Junk" box in my GMail.
 
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