MetaSpammer
This spam made it into my inbox (thanks, GMail. Your spam filters have been pretty lousy the past few months… You Google Geniuses really should read this. It would solve a lot of problems). I guess I should be somewhat glad, though, ‘cus this is kinda funny.
Dear dan@hellyeahbitch.com:
We offer online promotion:
1. Provide email lists to you for your use.
2. Custom built your email lists, send over the email lists
for you!* We also provide sendout solutions (Mailing Server).
Let us know your needs.
Alf
Sales support
Salesa@jpym.comThis is for dan@hellyeahbitch.com.
No more: @aol.com
Is this?… is it possibly… no – can’t be. A spam message advertising Spamming Services!?! The pain of spam has become recursive – building and building on itself until all the tubes collapse under the strain!
Oh yeah – this also violates the CAN-SPAM act because that ‘No more: @aol.com’ is obviously a incomplete email address. And because that dan@hellyeahbitch.com address was mercilessly scraped off of this very website, Here’s helping the spammers spam the spammers: a whois query shows that the domain jypm.com belongs to one ‘Li Yang’ who’s email address is wo2m@tom.com. phone number is 1-363-386-6032 & fax: 1-363-386-6032.
Want that email address for Li Yang again? wo2m@tom.com
Scrape away, you jerks. wo2m@tom.com wo2m@tom.com wo2m@tom.com
How to End Spam (or: How AOL Almost got it Right)
Spam sucks and everyone’s got an idea on how to end it. I’m not even going to waste my time linking to a few examples of filtering programs, as a google search for ‘how to end spam’ comes up with 84,100,000 hits.
Well, this is going to be 84,100,001.
A while back AOL make a big stink in the blogosphere about it’s controversial policy of charging mass-emailers to access people with AOL email accounts. AOL was planning on charging a few cents per email sent to an @aol.com address and requiring payment before the email was delivered. Non-Profits were all up-in-arms and were eventually excluded from the new payment policy. Well that was all a few months ago and since then they’ve dropped out of the news and I don’t know how it’s working out for AOL, even if they are still charging (or if they ever started). And frankly, it’s AOL. I don’t really care.
You see, AOL had the right idea but the wrong implementation. It’s a great idea to charge the email sender a fee before their email ever sees it’s recipient. It’s how the postal system works, it’s how nearly all things in the world get moved from one place to another. AOL, though, targeted the wrong group. They targeted hobbyist groups, online retailers, fan sites, (spammers, of course) and anyone at all that ever sends a large number of emails at once. That hits many innocent emailers, and only makes a very small inconvenience to spammers who instead send out the same amount of junk, only in smaller packages.
So leads into my perfect* idea to end all spam. It begins with two simple questions: Have you ever added a spammer’s email address to your address book? Probably not. Question 2: Roughly how many legitimate emails a month do you get from someone you’ve not ever received mail from before or contacted before hand? Answer in my case: once, maybe twice a month.
My solution to ending spam: If you send me an email and your email address is not already in my list of contacts, you owe my email host $.25, email delivery upon payment. Or you could pay me, that’d be cool, but beside the point.
Both of them from “Jennifaer”:
Clearly I’ve removed the links, but how freaking great are those!