Fuckin Spammers

I got the following spam this morning 

From:     "ship-confirm@amazon.com" <ship-confirm@amazon.com>
Subject:  Your order with amazon.com has shipped (#363-594188)

... yada yada ... Enlarge your penis ... yada yada ...

I had to open the above mail (In html based Yahoo! mail) coz I do order stuff from amazon once in a while and this damn mail had hidden 1×1 gif’s which submitted my emailid to multiple web servers .

Since I’m on it, here’s another spam I received last week. 

From:	Brad Fitzpatrick <ggufseeuy@cnnic.net.cn>
To:	kalyan@lj.com ( lj = livejournal)
Subject: Re: TZE, in the evening

, you tuned in ?

26 Comments

  1. mrinal · January 30, 2004 Reply

    I had to open the above mail (In html based Yahoo! mail) coz I do order stuff from amazon once in a while

    So what’s at fault here? 🙂

  2. admin · January 30, 2004 Reply

    heh

    I did not realise till today that there was an option in Y! mail to turn off img tags from mails. Everyone learns stuff the hard way 🙂

  3. louiswu · January 30, 2004 Reply

    Re: heh

    I did not realise till today that there was an option in Y! mail to turn off img tags from mails.

    And all these years we thought you worked at Yahoo…so where do you work, then?

  4. admin · January 30, 2004 Reply

    Just because I work in a company , I need to know everything about it and its products. But if something is broken, I can get it fixed easily 😉

  5. mannu · January 30, 2004 Reply

    Ya, I work at Oracle and I don’t know anything about database, except that it’s an 8-letter word. Umm… actually, I know just a little more than that.

  6. bluesmoon · January 30, 2004 Reply

    use pine

  7. mmk · January 30, 2004 Reply

    Bah, sucks

    Dude, someone is getting pretty smart with email databases – did you read about email from Jzavodn to me?

  8. admin · January 30, 2004 Reply

    I do use pine with SA. This one landed in my yahoo.com mail address

  9. admin · January 30, 2004 Reply

    yep

    Looks like spam is getting very groups targetted. Maybe they are running some classifiers to link a set of users

  10. kingsly · January 30, 2004 Reply

    yahoo employees don’t get free POP service ? apparently the regular users at .co.uk still do!

  11. jace · January 31, 2004 Reply

    Re: yep

    I get spam these days that has Udhay Shankar on the CC.

  12. hserus · January 31, 2004 Reply

    actually a lot of this spam (especially the RANDOM_WORD, gibberish text stuff) is being sent out by trojaned windows hosts.

    So you do know that trojans have a habit of strip-mining names and addresses from outlook address books, and from the browser cache(s) on an infected system.

    So if somebody’s been reading silk, or lih, or livejournal, or something, and then gets infected, you start getting spammed with the names of people you know in the From.

    As somebody else has pointed out, you can pop your y! mail to someplace safer than a web client and read it. Me, I just work at a webmail company … i’d be shot, hanged, drawn and quartered before I used their, or anybody else’s webmail interface to read my mail.

    –srs

  13. mannu · January 31, 2004 Reply

    Re: yep

    I get manik.dhar@oracle.com on my cc list everytime I get one of those Viagra mails.

  14. admin · January 31, 2004 Reply

    helping spammers ?

    Are you sure you wanna put the mailID of your friend in my blog for spam crawlers to pick up ?

  15. mannu · January 31, 2004 Reply

    Re: helping spammers ?

    Whoops! I thought that ID was fake, but then I looked up the employee database and there’s actually someone by that name! Next step is for spammers to cc my manager’s email address on the spam (there’s no way I’ll delete the mail without reading, at least until I get used to that type of spam).

  16. admin · February 1, 2004 Reply

    Interesting to know that.. I didnt think the trojaned machines make such a big impact. So in that case would it be possible to track the mail back to a friend ? ( considering that they use the hacked win box as the smtp relay itself )

  17. hserus · February 1, 2004 Reply

    Assuming you have some way of tying that IP to your friend. Static IP? Easy. But what if he’s got a dynamic IP? You’d have to go hunt for RADIUS / TACACS logs from his ISP’s dialin server – assuming his ISP let you have them.

    –srs

  18. Anonymous · May 17, 2008 Reply

    I have completely lost the voting mark on my finger. I can go to North Karnataka and vote again. In this country, there are way too many open ends in the election system that the lack of paper trail is not the most glaring issue.

  19. Anonymous · May 21, 2008 Reply

    Greetings all.

    Hi there. I’m new and wanted to say hi.

  20. Anonymous · June 5, 2008 Reply

    Re: issue ???

    .. and you had time to count 16 of them 🙂

  21. Anonymous · June 17, 2008 Reply

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  22. Anonymous · July 29, 2008 Reply

    Re: 🙂

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  23. Anonymous · July 29, 2008 Reply

    Re: 🙂

    This is Cool 🙂

  24. Anonymous · August 2, 2008 Reply

    Tympanum

    What a beautiful creature!

    It doesn’t seem to have an external ring-like structure behind its eyes for hearing..

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  25. Anonymous · August 17, 2008 Reply

    > I suddenly feel this void

    That’s why people cry at weddings. New beginnings leave new voids.

    I have no siblings. That is a void that is harder to describe and harder to even understand fully.

  26. Anonymous · September 24, 2008 Reply

    thanks much

    well done, brother

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