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Sunday, October 17, 2004
SPAM Alert! support.sharingexperience.info
I got an e-mail a couple days ago (from "Support1") saying, "An individual at our website is sharing Opinions and Information regarding you via
our website.
Someone who knows you just began to research your background at our website. This
person could be a friend, a family member, co-worker, business associate, or anyone
else who knows you and wants to know more."
These days, I never click on URLs that are sent to me by strangers, so I decided to hold the e-mail until I had time to check the headers. I looked up the e-mail headers on samspade.org (support.sharingexperience.info 64.239.7.179) and traced them as far as I could, but the domain URL comes up with an apache error, a sure sign of a spam web site. The spammer creates a home domain that looks like it is the main site for his or her business, but in the e-mail spams he sends out, the reader is given a direct link to *another* site entirely, which harvests information as soon as readers visit it. The "home" domain site is never accessible, always returning an error when users try to type in the URL directly.
That confirmed ot me that it was spam, but I also did a Google search and came up with more results. You can read a terrific assessment of the ShareYourExperiences spam at this site: http://www.joewein.de/sw/spam-syex.htm.
I got an e-mail a couple days ago (from "Support1") saying, "An individual at our website is sharing Opinions and Information regarding you via
our website.
Someone who knows you just began to research your background at our website. This
person could be a friend, a family member, co-worker, business associate, or anyone
else who knows you and wants to know more."
These days, I never click on URLs that are sent to me by strangers, so I decided to hold the e-mail until I had time to check the headers. I looked up the e-mail headers on samspade.org (support.sharingexperience.info 64.239.7.179) and traced them as far as I could, but the domain URL comes up with an apache error, a sure sign of a spam web site. The spammer creates a home domain that looks like it is the main site for his or her business, but in the e-mail spams he sends out, the reader is given a direct link to *another* site entirely, which harvests information as soon as readers visit it. The "home" domain site is never accessible, always returning an error when users try to type in the URL directly.
That confirmed ot me that it was spam, but I also did a Google search and came up with more results. You can read a terrific assessment of the ShareYourExperiences spam at this site: http://www.joewein.de/sw/spam-syex.htm.
