Need Help: Getting lots of Indian spam

WildSpirit

WildSpirit

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Folks,

Somebody leaked out my corporate mail-id and lately i'm getting lots of spam. :mad:

The content is same in all mails, see below:

We have an updated database of 6000 of India's leading journalists. (TV
and print)
This email database maintained and updated as of 1st January'2008
contains the following details:-

1. Name 2. Office email id: @dnaindia.net etc. and/or Personal email id:
(@yahoo/gmail etc) 3. Media Name/(Hindu etc.) 4. City (New Delhi etc.)
Maintained in Microsoft Excel Format and YOU will not find it anywhere
else.

Includes senior and middle level journalists with leading newspapers,
television channels, business press and magazines. e.g . ToI, IE,
Outlook, Business Today, NDTV etc. Includes VS (HT), BK (ToI), RS
(CNN-IBN) and PC (Aaj Tak) among 6000 others.
Can be imported into all email merge software for personalised sending.

You ARE going to use it for blasting Press Releases, new product
announcements,corporate briefs or press conferences to these 6000
public opinion moulders.

We would like to sell this CLICKING database to you.

If interested, to receive a no-obligatory, sample list of 100 from our
master database of 6000 pls reply blank email
market.research.institute@gmail.com with
SEND100FREEMAILasha2fwd_repday_30jan08* in the Subject.

regards,

Asha
customer support
*case sensitive

REPLY validity of this offer: This offer is valid till 30th
January'2008 only. Kindly BUTTON up this offer immediately...
act NOW.
If not interested pls forward to YOUR cmd/head of Corporate
Communications or PR agency/PR industry contacts who may be interested
in this database.

The early birds get the fruits.
*case sensitive

trivia:

PRESSURE ON MAO'S SON TO MEET THE PM AND REPLY HIS LINK TO CHOU NOW.

REPLY validity of this offer: This offer is valid till 30th
January'2008 only. Kindly BUTTON up this offer immediately...
act NOW.
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I'm really getting pissed off. I get mails from these mail-ids:
feno@vsnl.in
asha.pencil@gmail.com
market.research.institute@gmail.com

Guys can you give me a list of spamming sites, so that i can subscribe these mail-ids and let them taste a bit of what others experience.

PS: Request you all to subscribe these id's to all spamming sites you know.
 
6pack

6pack

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u can also mark these as spam on gmail, etc and get them delivered to spam folder no?
 
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indy1811

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well u could always sign them up for random newsletters on various tech sites or better yet post their ids on pron sites..
 
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nukeu666

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spammers use accounts only fot sending mails, they will never know/care even if you manage to send them 10k mails/day
 
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KingKrool

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Actually, the person (Asha supposedly) says to send a blank reply to this email to some address. What they probably do is when they receive that reply with the appropriate subject, they note the address it comes from (obviously this is all automated). They'll then contact you and proceed...

My suggestion is, set up a fake account at some domain, send them an email from that account with the appropriate subject, get some contact details (at least the email you should correspond with, i.e. the one they will have humans check), and then SPAM that address. Sign it up for porn, free offers, what not.
 
WildSpirit

WildSpirit

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Aug 10, 2007
95
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Bangalore
@6pack
My corp mail-id is getting spammed, gmail doesn't come into picture.

@techie_007
you understand my pain :)

@Kingkrool
Thats a good idea, thank you. Will try out.
 
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nukeu666

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Dec 19, 2006
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KingKrool said:
Actually, the person (Asha supposedly) says to send a blank reply to this email to some address. What they probably do is when they receive that reply with the appropriate subject, they note the address it comes from (obviously this is all automated). They'll then contact you and proceed...
My suggestion is, set up a fake account at some domain, send them an email from that account with the appropriate subject, get some contact details (at least the email you should correspond with, i.e. the one they will have humans check), and then SPAM that address. Sign it up for porn, free offers, what not.
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if they give you a yahoo/gmail address, then their spam filters will do all the work to keep your trash out :p
 
Aces170

Aces170

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Mar 16, 2005
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AFAIK soliciting personal information is not legal... contact them and scare the shit outta them
 
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techie_007

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Jun 2, 2007
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www.techiesdomain.com
dipen01 said:
lol i found one email bomber... i have never tested it but you can...if u want..?
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do keep in mind that directly doing something like this could be cause for legal action etc against you.

The spammer might not do anyhting about it, but gmail, vsnl can definitely take action against you for overwhelming their servers etc with spam, even if u didnt start it first. just a heads up :)
 
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random2

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Here are couple of points -

1. You really wont know who the sender is. The email given is just dummy, the person might be just someone like you. So targeting the email address is of no use.

2. Check the originating IP. If its a static one, you can complain to the service provider about it. If its through any of the ISPs, you can still complain but im not sure they will do anything.

3. If you are sure who the sender is, get a vps server and nuke the senders email. Max that might happen to you is, the host will kick you out.
 
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