04 March 2010

Lying bastards

Rico says he gets, on average, about fifty spam emails a day from one or more sites offering Viagra and other drugs he neither needs nor wants. (As, he's sure, do you.) Since most of them target Pfizer (who makes Viagra), he finally went to the Pfizer page, hoping for a "tell us about your spam problem" link. No such luck. But a cranky email to them did get back the suggestion to forward every one of them to "spam@uce.gov", which supposedly will do something about it. (Hasn't yet.)
Today, however, Rico decided to look closely at the emails themselves, to see if there was a "stop sending me this crap" link. Lo and behold, there are multiple links at the bottom:
Of course, whoever 'iym Inc.' is could have seen that coming, so what you get is this for each of them:
(The incorrect link seems to be dynamic, since it was a different non-existent URL yesterday.)
A further search for 'iym Inc.' turned up a lot of hits (a clothing company, something called "Impacting Young Minds", Interim Youth Ministries, and various stocks with that label), but nothing that looked like the bastards he was searching for.
Given that the incoming URLs morph on a regular basis, Rico doesn't know of any sure-fire way to kill this spam. If you do, please email him.

4 comments:

  1. ACHTUNG!

    Rule Number One, bwana, is never EVER click on any link in a spam message. Dog only knows what you have infected yourself with.

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  2. ACHTUNG!

    Rule Number One, bwana, is never EVER click on any link in a spam message. Dog only knows what you have infected yourself with.

    ReplyDelete
  3. ACHTUNG!

    Rule Number One, bwana, is never EVER click on any link in a spam message. Dog only knows what you have infected yourself with.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Hey!! Knock it off!!! Every time I try to go back a page it reposts my comment! What is this shit??? Now I have to quit my browser. CRAP!

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