Spammers have reached a new level of EVIL

Also nice to know I’m not alone–except that I was hit with ads for inkjet printer cartridges, not this band everyone’s talking about. Anybody else get the inkjet ad? I think the originator was www.ink-jet.com.

I tried to find everyone associated with this spam and email them, and I got this reply from the web hosting service:

To see the full letter, go to ATMB.

:round of applause in Lynn Bodoni’s general direction:

Nice job.

Thanks Lynn :slight_smile: . I only got two of them before blocking the address, but it looks like I got off easy compared to most. Glad to see at least some minor measure of justice done.

( By the way it was my hotmail address that I have listed publically here ).

  • Tamerlane

I got about 15 of the badrats related messages. It was on the account I use here and for sites likely to produce spam. I’m about to the maximum number of filters I can use, so I may just shut that one down and start over.

badrats wasn’t the problem - they turned off their bot as soon as they were made aware of what was happening, so you don’t need to worry about receiving stuff from them again. They ALSO have no idea how they ended up on the sobevideo mailing list; it’s just that their bot was sending autoresponses to every email they received via the listserv.

Don’t think so. My daughter recieved about 25 in her hotmail account and she isn’t on any Yahoo group.

I am and I recieved somewhere around 35.

We do both have accounts at Audiogalaxy and at Neopets though.

I suspect they harvested them from more than one place.

Thank you, Lynn!!!

I got spammed, too. 50 freaking e-mails from badrats. Thanks for handling this, Lynn!!

I think this summarizes my feelings towards spammers quite nicely:

Read through to find my source. :slight_smile:

Sorry about the formatting.

Y’all rule. Thank the freakin’ gods. I got a bunch of these yesterday too…and some of the replies were to “ianna @ verizon.net” which has never even been an email address of mine. I’m thinking since Verizon absorbed Bellatlantic.net, maybe I am both ianna @ bellatlantic.net AND ianna @ verizon.net without knowing about it.

Anyhow, I send a long, detailed email to abuse@verizon.net. Since it looks like the problem has already been contained at its source, now I’m just hoping they clear up this whole “bellatlantic.net/verizon.net” thing with my email accounts. :smiley:

I heard on the news this morning that some fool advertiser said, “Those who block pop-up ads on their internet account are violating an unwritten contract.”

First, fool: I did not enter into a freaking contract with you. I entered into, and pay for, a contract with my ISP. I like their service and thus I continue to patronize them.

Second, fool: I actually do click on banner ads on occasion if the site displaying such banners is to my liking and the advertised item on the banner is also to my liking.

Third, fool: I am the one who purchased my computer; therefore, I am the one who decides what gets displayed how on my terminal. When I go to a webpage, I fully expect the displayed page to be that particular webpage. I do not want, and certainly do not expect, your cruddy advertisement to appear either in place of, or immediately over, thus blocking, the webpage I told my computer I expect to be displayed.

Fourth, fool: QUIT USING UNETHICAL STUNTS TO SELL YOUR CRAP! Yes, I do keep a bit of a list of crap I shall never buy because I don’t like the advertising stunts pulled to try to sell them. And, yes, you fool, X-Cam is one of those items.

Ditto on badrats, lucky though, only 20 emails. pissed me off enough to get a new address, I’ll let the old one die.

I’d really love our legislators to do something about this. We’re getting reamed so bad.

Feynn and I got hit too. And it was on my only spam-free account!

Glad to see the mess has been cleared up.

Me too. Around 20. Die, scum.

I got smacked with 30-odd pieces of this purulent slime. For a few minutes, I was thinking I’d downloaded a trojan horse, somewhere, by mistake! It was my AOL account that got hit yesterday, with the usual replies that all y’all had gottten.

I should ask if anyone else in my house, using this computer, noticed the same thing.

Fuck you. Fuck you slowly with a runnning chainsaw lubricated with pig shit! You are the dumbest drooling dipshit, it has ever been my displeasure to meet your filthy troglodyde self. The gutters vomited when you were nearby! Shit is unhappy to have been associated with you.Take those worthless bits of infected fungus that you call a brain and find a toxic waste dump to die in, because you are not fit to associate with anyone else on this planet. Asshole!

Monty, do you happen to sound like Mr. T?

[sub]Ah pity tha foo who spams T![/sub]

:smiley:

Hah, Derleth! I didn’t even make that connection. So, if one were to substitute “punk” for fool, then that would be Dirty Harry?

I don’t think they are harvesting from Neopets, since the address I use for neopets didn’t get any spam.