Crass Stupidity » Spammers

Message Board Spammers

Richard — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:55:51 +0000

I co-admin. a few message boards and one of our pet hates is wankers joining up just to post lists of ‘phones they probably don’t have in the first place in order to make a buck or two off the unwary. There may be some otherwise legitimate companies in amongst the spammers, but I doubt it.

So we tend to delete all the ‘useful’ information and just leave the e-mail addresses they helpfully include so that other spammers can offer them viagra, tickets for rugby matches and those missing millions from Nigeria. Here’s hoping anyway.

I thought I’d start posting their e-mail addresses on here (and hence on the sites carrying the syndicated RSS feeds) so that other can avail themselves of their bargain wares … or something.

Here’s the latest: ipho...@europemail.com iph...@ommail.com ipho...@yahoo.com

More Spammer Idiocy

Richard — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:44:13 +0000

I mean come on: what’s the point?

Today one of my sites has been generating Spam from a contact form – the usual links to sites selling pretty pink placebos or whatever.

So what exactly is the point? It’s so pathetic, I don’t even get annoyed and I’m clearly not stupid enough to buy any of this shit from a bunch of no-mark twats.

Still if it keeps some third world countryman employed at the expense of these twats then so be it.

Optical Express using known Spammer Frankdata

Richard — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:30:46 +0000

Yes, yet another company buying lists of e-mail addresses from and using the spamming services of Frankdata in breach of the legislation. This time it’s Optical Express.

Two e-mail messages, both entitled “Freedom from specs and contacts with laser eye surgery” but sent to two different domain names and two different users, a “Richard Gummer” and a “Richard Rooke”. Obviously these two names are fictitious and only exist on Frankdata’s spam database.

Optical Express have promised to investigate and get back to me…

RAC Using Known Spammer Frankdata

Richard — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:40:10 +0000

Another Spam presumably paid for this time by the RAC who should know better. They appear to have bought a list of spammed e-mail addresses from well-known spammer Frankdata International Marketing Limited and are thereby helping to keep this spammer in business.

Well I’d just like the RAC to know that I will never buy any of their goods or services as a result of this. If you hate spam, why not do likewise and boycott firms who use spammers.

[Update]

Well the RAC called me back a couple of times, but refused to get their Marketing Department – presumably the ones who paid for the spamming campaign and made arrangements with Colin Franklin to send it – to discuss it with me as they don’t deal with the public.

In view of that, a formal complaint has now been made to the Information Commissioner’s Office – see the link at the foot of this page.