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Alternative medicine does not help

Not even the finally arrested Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić:

“Until he was tracked down and arrested by Serbian special forces last night, Dr Karadzic was working as an alternative medicine specialist in a clinic in the suburb of New Belgrade using the false name of Dr Dragan Dabic.”
(Times Online)

Porn spammers can continue

After a court has dismissed the lawsuit by lesb–, erm, residents of Lesbos against all lesbians (that is, gay women) calling themselves lesbians, porn spammers – no matter if they spam via e-mail or blog comments – can continue their profession without fear of lawsuits from Lesbos for using this word.

None of the porn spammers could be reached for comment.

Stupid comment spammers

Some spammers really are stupid. All spammers are stupid, but some especially. So tonight a filipino wrote a total of nine spam comments with meaningless short sentences on a single post within 26 minutes – on the then current one about the domain trading spammer. (Unfortunately Akismet let all but the last one pass – probably was quite new. By the way, I left them (without link) for reference, sort of, because I want to make fun of them here.)

And unfitting comments they were!

for the long i hope i will become effective and useful to others.

So for instance for people who publish small ads for captcha entry?

I need someone to help me with simple captcha entry work. You’ll login to specified site using credentials I provide, and enter captcha’s on weblinks I provide. Very simple. At present I can pay 2.5 cents per entry. I’ll pay by paypal. I need to start ASAP! Mail me your messenger id (yahoo or msn) and your time zone(EST, PST, etc).

For someone with the same mail address replied there:

Im interested to work with you . My YM ID is alvinnobleza. I promise to be an asset to your company.

And now he apparently tries to be an asset for a badly translated, somehow dubious music site…

oh it nice to belong to someone else when you feel their importance that they give to you.

Ah, you already belong to that company. Well, I wouldn’t like that…

the idea is to generate a fund to create a better business into the future.

A fund for comment spammers or their employers? God forbid!1

have you ever heard that just click your mouse and read this page and you will know the importance of it.

It can be done without a mouse, too. Any notebook user will confirm that. But what do you spammers know, anyway…

i think it serve other people a lesson to share their thoughts and feelings.

it is good to know to other people the importance of site because it adds idea to other people that read this.

And did you really lern something here?

its better to have one of this know all the important topics to it.

Would be even better if one could understand that sentence, wouldn’t it?

a wonderful page i read some comments but i appreciate what they said.

Read – and still like them? Phew, lucky me!

download and try this to see the difference to other web that you`ll visit.

What, another web? Only accessible with a ominous download? I think I’ll pass…

:dunce:

  1. I know this exclamation will never work, but probably nothing will really help against spammers, anyway. Unfortunately. []

.com with a .net

Net (part) On 17 June at 01:43, a “nice” mail arrived from a Daniel Kagan from a pretended “Domains Alert Service” (domainsalertservice.com): “cimddwc.com for the owner of cimddwc.net” – and I wasn’t the only one. Its content:

Lately, we obtained cimddwc.com for our development plans.

Oh, right, great plans you got there, you spammer.

But, as you are the owner of .net, we first decided to let you know of an opportunity to acquire this valuable .COM.

Domains Alert Service is an engine specialized in search of domain names related to our customers’ business.

That is, trying to squeeze money out of them for nothing they couldn’t do without you.

We assist our clients to be professionally promoted on the Internet by other measures too (Search Engine Optimization, etc.)

There are several reasons why you should own a .com version of your domain and among them the following: […]
– .com indicates reliability and professionalism.

Then why do you use a .com address?

[…] If you have any interest in securing this domain, please act quickly, as we will not be interested in selling it once our development team starts working with it.

Whatever you‘d actually do with such a silly domain name…

Next mail 11 days later:

The price for cimddwc.com has decreased

Recently, we made an offer to you to purchase the domain cimddwc.com. As we found no need in this domain,

Oh, really?

we are ready to sell it to you for the price we’ve got it for.

Click here to buy cimddwc.com for $50!

Sorry if you haven’t bought it for any other reason than price and this message is of no use for you.

As others also mentioned, such as there at fanboygeeks (especially in the comments), this guy doesn’t even register the domains in the first place.

But, well, I think it might be not that bad to acually have cimddwc.com, so I indeed registered it – not from that spammer, of course, but through a local registrar, for less than half of his last “offer”.

domainsalertservice.com, by the way, now displays “The requested domain is no longer available for purchase. We apologise for the inconvenience.” for this specific domain. Now exactly which inconvenience is he talking about…?

Lottery spam from the future

It should be well-known that e-mail addresses can’t win lotteries – especially without actually participating in them – and such “win notifications” only are interested in address and bank data and possibly advance-fee fraud.

Also known should be that automatic translations can produce funny results.1

But that such mails come from the future – wow!

This one specimen arrived on July 7 at 17:11 (that’s 5:11 pm), but would be will sent on July 8 at 11:09 UTC in order to will informed have me on July 9 about the “drawing” from July 8 had. Or something to that extent. It’s so difficult with these tenses…

(The mail is also funny for its “German”, but there’s not much point in showing it here in the English part of my blog…)

  1. especially if they need two steps, e.g. Russian → English → German []