Category: Spam

Canadian Pharamacies not from Canada!!

Paul

I got an Email that happen to get past the spam filters and wanted to talk about it.   The Email goes like this:

Hi there
Hey where have you been recently ? I could not get any news from you for a long time. Anyway, I found a decent pharmacy store from google last week. I decided to give a shot because it was Canada Licensed Drugstore. Well the prices were % 65 cheaper than the local pharmacies in my region. So I took a chance. I took my medicines in my hand 3 days after i ordered and they were packed very well as they claimed that they provide full anonymity. Needless to say medicines are legit and they give me what i want 🙂 If you need any medicine without any prescription, give it a try until the discount ends.
Take care of yourself. I included the url below. See you later.

http://www.guidefabledme.com

Several things makes me wonder where it stands out that this is just spam. Here are some examples:

  • the word Google — It isn’t capitalised and that should be capilitized.

  • Bad Grammar — This shows me this isn’t even close to Canada, I’ll explain later in this article.

  • Makes it sounds like I know the person —  Again this email tries to socialize and makes you think you know the person.

[ad]The first untrusted relay in  this email is the the Url Redirect, the instant you click on that you are transported to perfectpharmstart.com which isn’t even located in Canada.   If you check the whois on this domain you will see it is [intlink id=”3141″ type=”post”]located in Russia[/intlink].

So the “Canadian Licensed Drugstore” isn’t real in the sentenced because It is nowhere close to the Canada.  I looked around the website and find there is this number “(210) 888-9089“.   I read what people posted on the forums they were calling this a scam.   I do not know if it is or not but I do know you are far better getting your drugs from your local pharmacy and not even trying to order online.  You don’t know what they will send your is the right stuff.  Also if you want to contact them just click on the Contact  us, but you won’t find any information there it will be a web form.

So let’s go over this again, I get an email from a Verizon User which shows a the guidefabledme.com is in the US, but the Redirect goes to a Russian server.  That one things is the most important key, they are trying to get you to think you are trusting a US or Canadian site but really are just be sent to a Russian server.  Although the URL will change the idea is the same they will probably change it around soon or later with a different URL but the email will be the same.  I would be willing to be it will be a different redirect all together but if you check it out it will be in Russia and not Canada.

Blog Success Spam — What not to Do!!

Paul


Lately I’ve been getting spam emails with the titles:

  • Earning thousands blogging? You could be.

  • Bloggers Paid for Posts

  • Bloggers Wanted

  • Learn to blog for paychecks using this freebie video.

Each link sends me to blogsuccess.com, and looks like this:

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“Blog Success founders Jack Humphrey and Peter Lenkefi created this to help bloggers make money.”  This is what I read in searches.    I’ve got to wonder if this is so successful they why do an email spam?   [intlink id=”2833″ type=”post”]Most emails lately have been about scams and virus exploits[/intlink].   I am going to stick to the only way you should advertise by getting people to click links to come to my site.

According to Symantec:

Symantec reported that nearly 58 percent of spam is now coming from so-called botnets –networks of hacked computers that can be misused by criminals to steal financial information, launch attacks or send spam.

90 Percent of E-mail Is Spam, Symantec Says

Now if we do the math at least half of these emails sent to me are from hacked computers and are coming from so-call botnets.   If they are so caviler about using hacked systems to spam people do you really think they are making enough money with this website of theirs?   The old tried and true method for any blogger is TIME, Research and building your community.   Other than that there is no really easy way to make money quickly.   I just hope they release this and start doing it the right way.    This just makes there company become a dark site, in which all you do is bring people in who want to earn money in the bad way.

Twitter and the Acai Berry Spammers

Paul2 Replies

Well According to Sopho’s There seems to have been some hacking going on for the Acai Berry spam. Some of the messages were:

acaiberrytwitterspam1It seems to be a random http://random.CN domain but we’ve talked about this in the past.  Sopho’s isn’t sure how this happen but I have a suspicion that it was a Phishing attack done on the facebook users recent weeks that have the hackers going to other social sites and trying those passwords.

[ad]Although I agree with Sopho’s on making sure not to have a dictionary word, I also think users should take care of all your online accounts.   As most people will become aware of is most users use only one password for all their accounts online or only have 3 different passwords for 20 different sites.  This is something that needs to change and you can do that with [intlink id=”2646″ type=”post”]Roboform[/intlink] to keep your passwords safe and also to make sure they can’t guessed.

If you have been compromised on t witter and only use one password, you can bet all you other accounts have been compromised as well.  You should change your passwords as soon as possible.   You should also make sure in the future not to be tricked into giving out your password which is called Phishing, in which a site with a different url is made to look like Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace log in page.

Upgrading to Twitter Pro — ztrx.net Phishing attempt in the wild!!

Paul

I just got this alert from a friend of mine and I thought I would share it with you.  It looks like there is a new phishing attempt going on with websites try fool it’s users into going http://ztrx.net and From the looks of it. It looks like this:

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[ad]The message some users got were:

Upgrade to Twitter Pro – Visit http://bit.ly/[CENSORED] to upgrade your account

It seems that if you get this message on your account you should report it to @Spam and let them know. If you happen to get given out your password it is strongly recommended that you reset your password to prevent any further unauthorize access to your accounts. You should change your password as soon as possible. This is the first attempt they have tried this this weekend so be on the look out for more phishing attempts.

New Spam Campaign for Cooltweeting.com

Paul6 Replies

I got an Email that shows that people are giving out there twitter accounts password for a Free Mac book air. I did a Search for cooltweeting.com and well you take a look.

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The Site Cooltweeting.com looks to be a phishing for your information by wanting you to do this:

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[ad]As you can see this looks pretty simple and some users would think this is true. I do wonder how I am going to receive email from them if they don’t have my email in the first place? You have to read the fine print on this one here I will make it bigger:

You agree to receive emails from trusted 3rd parties containing special offers and promotional emails.

Powered by BrandGivewayCentre.com. BrandGivewayCentre.com is an independent rewards program and not associated with any of the above listed merchants or brands. The above listed merchants or brands in no way endorse or sponsor BrandGivewayCentre.com’s offer and are not
liable for any alleged or actual claims related to this offer. The above listed trademarks and service marks are the marks of their respective owners. BrandGivewayCentre.com is solely responsible for all Gift fulfillment. In order to receive your gift you must: (1) Meet the eligibility requirements (2) complete the rewards bonus survey (3) complete the number of sponsor offers in the redemption instructions
(4) Follow redemption instructions.

As you can see you will have to complete a number of offers to get this macbook.   I also check out the  source page for this so called page and here is what I find:

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Now we see  there is a a file on the server called “viraltweets.php” which we can’t access because it is a protected file and even though they say they don’t store this that doesn’t mean they don’t grab your email address and other personal information while they send this tweet out.   afterall if you read the fine print, you agree to recieve emails from third parties?  which begs the questions how do they get your email and other information?  They will get it through your twitter account.     As we know the from time to time it isn’t always a good idea to give out your twitter password because it can be easily abused.   This is definately just spam.  If you do use this page you will probably start getting even more email spam.   They obviously have a way to unsubscribe but that usually is used to just confirm you have an email address.    I will let you decide if it is worth a macbook or not but you’ll probably have to pay 2 times as much in offers just to get the macbook in the first place.