Asshat spammer sending email through SEB.

Posted by Les on Wednesday, November 10, 2004 at 11:52 AM. Read 632 times. Tags:
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Looks like some asshat registered an account with us and then spammed 47 members with email ranging from your standard issue Nigerian scam to appeals for the member’s real email address. EE tracks all emails sent through it and Dave M. let me know as soon as he got his so I’d like to apologize to everyone who got one of these missives. I’ve disabled the ability to send email through SEB for the moment until I can determine if this was an automated process or just someone with a lot of time on their hands. 

I have EE set to only allow one email every five minutes and it appears this person was sending them out in five minute increments so it could just be some ass with too much time on their hands. Your real email address was not revealed to them at any point in time so as long as you don’t respond to the email it should remain hidden. Again, my apologies.

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deadscot United States Posted on 11/10/2004 at 01:09 PM

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Not a problem.  If someone wants to spam from SEB they might want to bone up on their English and grammar skills first.  There has to be a simpler way fro them to harvest email addresses than this tactic.  Me thinks it was some sort of chron job bot.

deadscot United States Posted on 11/10/2004 at 01:11 PM

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Of course, only I would knock them and then leave a typo in my post. ;-(

Abyss United States Posted on 11/10/2004 at 01:19 PM

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First Jailed Spammer Gets Nine Years

I hate spam, I really hate spam, but Nine freaking years for sending spam, hollllly shit. I’ve heard of premeditated murders getting less time. This is semi off topic, but I wanted to hear what other people thought.

Neil T. Great Britain (UK) Posted on 11/10/2004 at 02:10 PM

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Experience would suggest they had too much time on their hands. I’ve had them post their waffle in comments forms on my blog before, with none of the fingerprints of it being done using bots.

Laughing Muse United States Posted on 11/10/2004 at 06:08 PM

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I think that premediated murders should get more time than spammers. Then again, there were possibly reasons for some of those premediated murderers getting sentences briefer than nine years. Hard to make an intelligent comment without more facts.

But nine years for sending spam...for abusing a communications network...no, it’s not too much.

Ben Australia Posted on 11/10/2004 at 06:53 PM

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Eh, I get like 400 spam emails a day through this account. A few more isn’t going to hurt.

Ben Australia Posted on 11/10/2004 at 06:55 PM

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I hate spam, I really hate spam, but Nine freaking years for sending spam, hollllly shit. I’ve heard of premeditated murders getting less time.

I guess you could even it out by legalising the murder of spammers.

grey United States Posted on 11/10/2004 at 07:27 PM

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we should spam spammers

Larkinsjapn Japan Posted on 11/14/2004 at 08:09 AM

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What ever hurdle or gate you can conceive, some dumbass will find a way to circumvent. Les can I use EE with macintosh OS 9? I have space that I am not using at the moment and I would like to move away from blogger (I can’t post pictures or use avitars because I use Macintosh). I want to rant and roll from my own space. I have 4 active e-mail accounts, and my private account that I have never given to anyone but my family gets the most spam!! Go figure?  The notmail address I give for my online posts gets the least!! I finally have a new keyboard (*-*) so amybe not so many typos.
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Joe United States Posted on 11/29/2004 at 06:52 AM

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You’re lucky, the assphat spammed me 400 times. I traced the bastard and it looks like he’s sending spam from indiamart.com Ip’s.

zilch Austria Posted on 11/29/2004 at 07:37 AM

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Then again, there were possibly reasons for some of those premediated murderers getting sentences briefer than nine years.

...this is a little off topic, but Dan White comes to mind- anyone remember him?  Shot down Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk of SF, would have killed two more, because he was disgruntled at having been forced to resign.  Got seven years, was paroled in less than five.

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Les United States Posted on 11/29/2004 at 07:37 AM

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It helped that I had a 5 minute limit set on emails and a couple of my readers let me know as soon as they got the spam so that limited the damage somewhat.

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