I don’t know what the hell is wrong with Google these days, but I suspect determined spammers may be using it to prevent people from finding out who they are, and even retaliating against people who stand up to them.
I have been inundated with spam every day which the spam detector cannot block, but which is obviously coming from the same spammer. Every single one of them has the same style, a number in the “from” header, and every URL in the text of the ad goes to the same address.
My problem is identical to that of this guy:
Help – I keep receiving email spam from different advertisements that keep changing domain names. Therefore I cannot block. Dozens come every morning which say are from: 8362 Woodbine Ave unit 7 Suite 144 Markham, ON.(or so it says on each of them) Can anyone help me get rid of these?
(The link won’t work; I cut and pasted the quote from the search result summary.)
The answer is no. Obviously , no one at Verizon seems to want to do a damn thing about this spam outfit, for this has been going on for some time. (The company seems to be notorious.)
I’m also fascinated by the gobbledygook in the “style” section of the emails (visible only if you view the message source). This is typical:
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ndash are Dynamics children children 33 2 ndash Not form 2 very children ko ago Awe chilling 2 parameters were arbitraryentry t r more points permalink Trollme praised else
your 2 information ago in sunday 32 children bowl ve 1 last 1 points Eriksgata ndash save
form 3 see 32 points sylban App they as imgur 32 points as text 0 32 site the rather form 1 32 time Scientology are form forget the 32
from 39 2 form 4 firefox 32 32 32 points they slenska out 32 Their 32 point Dallas followers is places search points away 32 3 boring
Just seems like they throw in random text. But why? Why is it in the “style” sections?
Spammers are the lowest form of “life” (if that is the correct term).
I decided to write this post only because I have complained about spam enablers before and the spammer had the gall to threaten to report this site to Google as a problem (which she said would hurt Classical Values’s Google ranking) unless I removed her links, which I did not. Since then, what is said on this blog has become a lot more difficult to find through normal Google search results. Not that I really care, or can prove anything. But I am not about to cave under a threat from a god damned detestable spammer.
Yet still, I don’t understand Google. Can spammers actually retaliate against legitimate complainers?
MORE: I get dozens of spam emails each day, each one linking newly created URLs, all of which give the following as registrant information:
Registrant Organization: Blinko
Registrant Street: 8362 Woodbine Ave , Unit 7, Suite144
Registrant City: Markham
Registrant State/Province: ON
Registrant Postal Code: L3R 2M6
Registrant Country: CA
Amazing that the place can get away with something like this for so long.
OTOH, it is quite possible that the registrant information is itself phony.
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11 responses to “The hell with these bastards! I’ve had it!”
I put this in wrong place look at next one down for my comment
Ex Chrome and go back to Firefox if that is an option for you. The spam filter I have with Yahoo Mail also works well.
I’ve been using Bing instead of Google because I hate the little bastards since they’ve become a second arm of Dept. of Defense. Also they’re in bed with NSA.
Have the authorities, local and national, been informed?
Alan, I don’t think any authorities anywhere have the slightest interest in policing spam or spammers. (Much less the ability.)
Random text is a way through the old-school statistical spam filters which counted certain trigger words. Basically the random text swamps the system so that is doesn’t pick up the spam as spam.
Just seems like they throw in random text. But why? Why is it in the “style” sections?
What Robbo said.
Also, as I understand it a fair amount of spam sent is half-understood cargo-cult code the spammer is just pressing a button on, so the people writing it are (fortunately) often incompetent and sometimes actually undermining their own cause.
Also, I would bet a dollar that, as you suspected, the registrant entry for that “Blinko” place is entirely fake.
(One of many reasons not to roll-your-own email is that the big providers, even the free ones, already have SpamCop and other solutions set up.
I rarely see spam on my GMail account, for instance. Maybe one a month gets through the filters.)
What Sigvald said.
I have e-mail with my ISP, which does a very good job of blocking spam. It sends spam to a spam folder. When I check the spam folder, I see that very little that isn’t spam has been put in the spam folder. Similarly, very little spam gets put into my regular e-mail folder.
I use Google as little as possible. As Google has superior searching capabilities, I do occasionally resort t it.
Verizon has (I hope at least) a pretty good spam filter, but it doesn’t intercept these, because each one has a brand new URL (the spammer creates new URLs daily). No matter how many I label “SPAM” it does nothing to catch the new ones.
My ISP supports something called TMDA, which does filters spam almost perfectly. In addition, first-time users have to acknowledge that they’re human before there message makes it to my inbox. I chose this ISP solely because they supported TMDA, but they’ve treated me very well otherwise as well. Spam is definitely one of those things where it’s easier to move your sail than change the wind – you can put a LOT of energy into trying to get it turned off, and wind up with nothing but heartache. Just my $0.02.
Don’t you appreciate modernist poetry?
I don’t see these things in Yahoo mail fwiw.
The authorities have, but you have to persist. And get others to complain as well.