Category: Spam

Canadian Pharmacy at it again : ownsouthme.com

Paul

I received an email that got past my email settings and here it is:

Hi there,

Because of the economic crisis, things are not going well for online business. So here is a pharmacy which sells % 60 cheaper than other stores on the net. If you have pharmaceutical needs, try them before they go out of stock. You may read the advertisement below if you are interested :

[ad]No doctor needed anymore! Get what you want easy and faster than ever before!
We have all the best medicines of the industry packed and waiting for your order!
Of course we got the best blue men’s friends and we sell them with the hugest discount right now!
More about us:
– Man’s Health, Anti-Depressants, Antibiotics, Cholesterol, Diabetes, Diuretic medicines
– Pain, Sexual Health, Erectile dysfunction, Sleep Aids and Weight Loss medicines
– Worldwide shipping
– % 60 cheaper than other pharmacies (limited with stocks)
– Always full anonymity
– Always making you a happy customer!

Choose us and you will feel well: Always!

hxxp://www.ownsouthme.com

As you can tell if you went to the site it would be a redirect domain and go to greatpharmtraditions.com.  I’ve talked about [intlink id=”3680″ type=”post”]Canadian Pharmacies[/intlink] in the past but there are a few things to look at to prove that it is a fact.  I did a Search for the phone on the bottom of the screen to see what pops up and you will be amazed at what is on the first Google search page.   A Rip-off Report about how they sent Generics and not the real deal.   I also did a whois look up of  greatpharmtraditions.com and the site is located in Russia.   There are others who have blogged about the phone number in question at the bottom of the screen, so yo must be careful where you buy your medications.  As always it is simply far less risky to buy them from you local pharmacy.   If you have any doubts the best bet is not to do it in the first place.

Antivirus System Pro — Just another Scareware

Paul

In One of my Previous rants I talked about [intlink id=”3761″ type=”post”]Antivirus System Pro[/intlink].  I finally found a site that tried to scare me into downloading critical software updates.

Antivirussystempro

As you can see this site is Spyware-scan-for-free.com but what is most important is that it actually tells you the truth before you install it.   “Some Security Vulnerabilities detected with High probability.  It May damage your files or steal you person and financial information.”  This one site is trying to you make you think you are install critical updates but in reality it is probably do what it states  by clicking the OK.

Although I talked about how to remove this, I would like to talk about just how bad it is to download “Critical security updates” from unknown or untrusted sites. Although most people usually do Google for keywords like “Antivirus System pro” or “Spyware-scan-for-free.com. I will tell you that if you think you have a security problem to go to the Windows update and see if there is an update that need to be applied.

Threat to System : Moderate

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Advice : Do a Complete system scan and make sure you don’t have any more hidden malware. Most of the time if you have one Trojan, you usually have more.

I recommend :

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Spoof Spam from Skype users

Paul

I got a strange email from Skype:

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As you can tell this is spam but it got through my spam filters because the spammers are actually spoofing the email address.  Upon further inspection of the headers of the message I have found this came from a Black Hole IANA.org name server.   Then when I did some even more investigation on this, I found that they are seeing more and more of Email Spoofing for Skype. Which if you went to that URL (Websweetness.com) you will not like what you see.   IT is an Adult site but that is besides the point.  I am betting the spammers are trying to fool the spam filters to make sure this get through.  I talked about the [intlink id=”3566″ type=”post”]Skype Bots[/intlink] before and this seems to be another way they are using Skype for there spam campaigns.

Skype is getting to be used by almost everyone who has internet so this is a good bet that people will get even more spam from spammers who are trying to get around the spam filters.  Until Skype fixes this problem, you can go into Email settings and uncheck “Skype can contact me when someone adds me as a contact”.   Although I would like to prevent this totally until they add a way for me to only receive messages from people on my contacts through email this will always be problem until they do that.

Remember if this got through there are a number of things that could also get through such as A Phishing attempt, Scam, or even an Exploit link to have software installed on your system.  So I will always caution people in clicking links they don’t know where they go and not everything from friends are always going to safe.  I would recommend people download some good [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Anti-virus and Firewall[/intlink] software to better protect your system and make sure you surf the web a little more safer.

Those get rich quick schemes are doubtful

Paul

I was on Twitter and I saw this message from someone I am following.   Talking about how to make 171,161.08 a month.

Ok before we go any further you would have to see the name Oprah Winfrey (see Above for Photo of Account) just like the name of the [intlink id=”3501″ type=”post”]one who just came on to twitter[/intlink].    Now is this a true name or just a fake account?  I’ll let you decide that because it looks like it is just random tweets with the same URL.    This to me is looking more and more like spam.  Back to the site, it is call Maverick Money Makers.

[ad]As you can tell this is like every other get rich page I’ve seen trying to tell you will make insane amount of money in a few minutes a day.  So I decide to go to another page unrelated to this page and you will get.

So now this is what keeps making me wonder if it isn’t just a scam because Like the virus alerts you get where they try to keep you on the page.   I’ve also did some research and find that there was a post about this being a scam on Yahoo Answers but strangely it was deleted.   I don’t know how long that cache copy of the question will be there, so I took pictures of the questions and answers to better help you decide for your self about why it was deleted.  See The gallery pictures for more information.

I won’t say if it is actually a scam or not but everything that I’ve seen tries to get you to buy this stuff and tries to make you think you will make money easily.   My thought of this is that you will never make money quick and you will have to work hard for it.   I expect this blog to make money later on down the road like other blogs that have been on the net for a long time.  I however know that making money from the internet is never quick.   Everything I’ve made takes time and effort on my part.

The behind the scenes of the bad guys

Paul

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Have you ever wondered how they find out your Email address or even find out your name or so called shipping address.   I’ve been wondering that for quite some time and have went researching online for the reason.  You see I’ve been getting spam email with my name and address  like this “Possible Check Pending [Last Name] [Mailing Address] Sender : Pam [Last Name]“

That email was a “Kevin Hoeffer” scam that advertise getting you money from Google, called the Cash Secret club.   Suffice it to say that the Rip of Reports all say this is a scam.  Seems they try to fool you into paying $1.99 and then charge an extra $98 after you give them your information.  The Domain that I looked up is protected by Whoisguard.com.  So I reported to them about this spam, this is a sure way to get off there list.  Reporting spam will black list you from getting spam because to there major providers.  That cost them money, if everyone did that the spammers would be stopped.  Although I think society as a whole isn’t even trying to fight the spam this way they just try to keep it under control.  I believe that if 10% of the spam is reported then we are making the spammers and scammers  pay for their misdeeds.

[ad]So I went searching for the reason behind how they got my information and I found Email Finder, which offers people email address or it offers to find out all that is out there to find about the particular email address.  Such as Name, last known address, social networks, and it goes on.  They do have an Opt-out policy where you can request not be listed, I advise everyone to go check and see if your listed.  You would have to pay to get the information but I if you see the screen where they said they have found information that is enough for me to opt out.   Actually it only cost the scammers and spammers $1.95 a month to use this service so they are making money in the long run.  You should also do an SEO Search on your email address  in Yahoo, Google, Bing and Other services to see if your email is out on the web.

There is a FAQ file on how Spammers Get your Email address, I strongly recommend people at least looking at it because it is still quite relevant to today’s spam.  I’ve also seen ways to Detect spam by using Bayesian filter but most companies now a days are using that from the get go.   Remember only you can prevent spam and from getting scammed, So do your research.