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Entries in Spammer (7)

Monday
Apr302012

Walmart Text Spam and How to fight it!

Interesting text messages!

I've had a long weekend doing some stuff and I happen to get two different text from two different numbers, with the same text.   Now you if you've been an avid reader of this blog, you know I REALLY HATE SPAM!  I even talked about blog referrer spam and how it just looks bad on companies.  

Text Numbers So far:

310-435-9136

214-600-2674

You have been selected for a $1,000 Walmart GiftCard, Enter code "FREE" at http://www.walmart.com.xxx.biz/wm/ to claim your prize: 161 left!

Why spammers are using text messages now?

Most of the time, the reason spammers are going to text spamming now is that it is far easier to spam you on your text message then to use email.   Hey let's face it who is going to report the spam and who do you report it them too?  These are the reasons why spammers are going to go this route, it is much harder to block or report these spam messages and they know it.  So I figured if they are going to send messages my way, I'd send messages to the right provider and thus I went back to my old post about reporting text message spam.

I'm looking for Android Apps that do this!

I've been searching around for an app that does this, but most of them just block it and don't really report it! I'd really want to make it hard for the spammers to want to send text messages.   Right now the cost of sending text spam is low but if it starts to make it less profitable they will go somewhere else to spam.

Some of the Apps that I will try are:

 

  • Handcent SMS -- Handcent SMS is a powerful free sms/mms tools for your android phone.  The most popular messaging app on the Android Market, Handcent SMS is a powerful, customizable, and free SMS/MMS app that fully unleashes the messaging potential of Android devices.
  • Mr. Number Text, Call & Block -- Text and call the people you love. Block everyone else.  Mr. Number is a messenger, dialer, and contact manager with built-in call and text blocking (free application) and automatic reverse lookup for numbers you don’t know (Caller ID).
  • Phone Spam Blocker --  NUMBERCOP blocks spam calls and text from 50.000 telemarketers & scam artists Getting SPAM CALLS or TEXT SMS SPAM ? NUMBERCOP is the easiest way to block them. NUMBERCOP knows 50.000 spamming phone numbers: Phone scams, phishing calls and annoying telemarketers.  NUMBERCOP blocks spam calls and text from 50.000 telemarketers & scam artistsGetting SPAM CALLS or TEXT SMS SPAM ? NUMBERCOP is the easiest way to block them. NUMBERCOP knows 50.000 spamming phone numbers: Phone scams, phishing calls and annoying telemarketers.

As you can tell some of these that I've found do check caller ID but I am hoping that it will be easier to find the carrier that is being used to spam but at least these do have some ways to block text spam SMS.   My only hope is that someone app developer will come up with a way to report text spam messages to the right company and thus making it extremely hard to send text messages and the cost would out way spamming people.

Paul Sylvester

 

 

 

 

Saturday
Feb072009

Twitter Spammers are getting more smarter

I got an interesting email about someone following me. I went to go check out there profile and Guess what I see:
calvinhodges1


As you cann se this account only had one post but people seem to be following back due to the picture and the bio.   I checked the account about 30 mins later and here I will show you:

calvinhodges2


[ad#ad2-right]It seems that if people see it has a picture and a bio that doesn't sound like it is is advertising anything, they will simply follow them back.  That really isn't a good idea.   Sooner or later they will start sending out spam to people who are following just because they haven't been caught.   I also checked out the Web site they have new there bio and it leads to http://www.squidoo.com/twittertipstricks. I hope the website knows their link is being used by a spammer. Although this could be a 2 for one deal for having there link also being used for spammer so they can get traffic to there site. I would be worried my ISP doesn't cut my website due to THE TOS. Although I serious doubt it would happen I do know it could happen. So users are being fooled by spammers, and people aren't looking hard enough into the account. Users should be warned they shouldn't just follow back if it looks like it is a person. I know this is a robot and expect it soon to start sending out spam to all those people who are following.   I just thought I'd share what I found out.  If you clicked on the tinyurl.com it sends you to Partnerwithpaul.com website which talks about making money like all other spam.   Just be careful you don't end up having regrets on following people who are bots.
Friday
Nov212008

Google Creates the ultimate Search Wiki!!

Google has started to do let people rate the searches and help find the better articles. Google is calling it Searchwiki. Here is a screen shot:



[ad#ad2-left]You can now help judge and rate search results.   You can also X out the ones that are not right.   I am going to play around with this even more.  It started out on Google Trends and Now people are all wanting to know more about this.   This could help my site even more.   I want to know what others are thinking about this?  Is this Good or can this be good for the spammers?  You decide.

Some other Websites talking about this are:

These are just a few but I wanted to let you see what other websites are talking about this new feature. I do want to hear what you think about all this and what is likely to come later on?


Friday
Aug082008

Fighting an endless battle!

Having been perusing my email inbox the last few days.  I've noticed that Gmail hasn't been catching all the spam.  So I've deciding to write an How to fight spam the hard way.   Why write about something people know all about spam. It is the fact that we have come to be complacent and ignore the spam that comes from our inbox.

[ad]To think if we allow this spam to keep coming our way.  So I've figured I show you how to fight back with spam.  It won't be an easy process but if you follow these few steps you too could get what you need done and make a wold difference with fighting spam.  Some people will say it can't be done.  I've done it i n the past and I do it now.  So let's start:




SamSpade.org is the first part of this epic adventure.  I say it's the easiest part because it doesn't take a lot of know how to find out the information you need. So let's start with you get a spam message in your inbox and you want to report this spam to the proper people and make it harder for the spammers to get away with this.


[ad]


You would want to look for any domains in the email message such as a (dot)gov, (dot)com, (dot)us, ETC and do a look up with SamSpade.org and find out who to email.  It's going to be one of the following:




  • Admin@(domain)

  • Postmaster@(domain)

  • abuse@(domain)


There are always going to be more, but you get the picture.  You then forward the message to either one or all of them and tell them in the email why you are emailing them.  I usually say something with TOS(Terms of Service).  That way you sound a little more forceful.  If you want to cut down on spam.  I dare you to report one peace of spam a day.  I can pretty much bet.  You will drop in spam in under a week.  On an upcoming article I will discuss why you would report spam.

Saturday
Jan192008

Spammer sues Anti-Spammer and Wins!!

Anti-spam activists often need to do quite a bit of hunting to track down the real identity of various spammers. Over the years, spammers have become increasingly adept at hiding from those trying to shine light on their activities. However, when one well-known anti-spammer used some standard whois and DNS lookup tools (the same kind many of us use every day) to find out the identity of a spammer, the spammer sued him... and won! The anti-spammer has to pay over $60,000 in fines, and possibly much more once lawyers' fees are added up. The judge ruled that some rather basic tools suddenly constituted "hacking" even though the details don't suggest any actual hacking. The anti-spammer simply used the tools available to get the information necessary. He didn't need to break through any security or do anything malicious to get the info. If you read the ruling, it sounds like a judge could define plenty of perfectly normal online activities as "hacking." Update: There's a good discussion in the comments, suggesting that there's a lot more going on here than is clear from the article itself. The judge's finding of facts suggest that the anti-spammer did some questionable things, including lying and ignoring an injunction -- which certainly hurt his case. However, others are suggesting that the judge's finding of facts are incorrect and there's much more to this story that will come out on appeal.
[Via TechDirt]


Now this really boils my blood. I haven't read the comments, but I will later on today. I don't know what the judges are thinking these days? Do they even have internet access at home to even understand this process. I think this will turn out to be a big thing in the appeals court. I know I will be interested in the decision there.