Nozell, rhymes with Oh Hell

I was amused by this scamming spam I got this email today.

Delivery-date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:55:01 -0400
From: Fethard-biz Manager 
Reply-To: Carroll_Karlotte@earthlink.net
To: mn@nozell.com
Subject: You credit card has been charged for $234.65

Important notice

We have just charged your credit card for money laundry service in
amount of $234.65 (because you are either child pornography webmaster
or deal with dirty money, which require us to layndry them and then
send to your checking account).

If you feel this transaction was made by our mistake, please press
“No”.

If you confirm this transaction, please press “Yes” and fill in the
form below.

Enter your credit card number here: ____________________

Enter your credit card expiration date: ____________________

 Yes No

 Contacts:
 Phone: +5982 902 5627
 Fax: +5982 902 3114
 E-mail: support@fethard.biz
 ICQ: 156746629

If you were foolish enough to enter your
credit card number and expiration date, it would have been sent to
secure.fethard.biz. The good news is it looks like that site is off
the net.

href="http://www.nozell.com/marc/blog/data/20030415-contourdesign-message-1.spa
m">Here
is some Unsolicted Commerical Email (UCE) that I received from href="mailto:pr@contourdesign.com">pr@contourdesign.com where they
are “seeking stories from statisfied users” of their stuff. They sent
the spam to GEN-NYS-admin@rootsweb.com which is the admin account for
a genealogy mailing list that I manage. I’ve never used that email
address for any purpose except to receive admin messages and certainly
would never use that to sign up at any website.

Kim Adams ( href="mailto:pr@contourdesign.com">pr@contourdesign.com),
apparently the press contact for Contour.Design.com, sent the message
out. Since she was so nice to include her office number (603-893-4556
x 226) in the UCE, I gave her a call on the way home today. I
explained that I never requested email from them and that the email
address was never used for registering with a web site. She said that
some other people have complained today and that they purchase email
lists from ‘a few places’ and my ‘address must have been on one of
them’ and offered to remove it. I told her to remove it, but I was
very interested in knowing just who they are purchasing email lists
from since they appear not to be reputable. She didn’t know if she
could get that information. I provided her with my personal email
address and cell number and asked for her to get back to me with the
info. I also told her that the spam would show up on my web log.

Here are some more information about the company from
http://www.contourdesig
n.com/contact_info.htm

Contour Design, Inc.
10 Industrial Drive
Windham, NH 03087 USA
Phone: 800-462-6678
International: +1-603-893-4556
Fax: 603-893-4558

Contour Design (Europe) Ltd.
Unit 3
Honeypot Business Centre, Parr Road
Stanmore, Middlesex, UK HA7 INL
Phone: +44-20-8731-1410
Fax: +44-20-8731-1419
email: europe@contourdesign.com

And email address contacts:

Customer Service
US
email: info@contourdesign.com
Europe
email: info@contourdesign.eu.com

Ordering Information
US
email: order@contourdesign.com
Europe
email: order@contourdesign.eu.com

Sales and Marketing
US
email: sales@contourdesign.com
Europe
email: sales@contourdesign.eu.com

Technical Support
US
email: support@contourdesign.com
Europe
email: support@contourdesign.eu.c
om

I eagerly await a reply from contourdesign.com about where they buy
those lists of address that are used to spam people.

I’ll be emailing the addresses above with a pointer to this blog entry.

A person, unknown to me, by the name of “Lucas Ambe”
, sent this recycled spam to me and 44
unknown people. Interestingly most of those those other 44 folks are
from non-US domains —

To: (removed)@worldpath.net, (removed)@aq.org,
(removed)@debisschop.net, (removed)@lycos-inc.com,
(removed)@wless-rikerud.moneybin.net, (removed)@predawnia.org,
(removed)@free.fr, (removed)@udel.edu,
(removed)@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se, postmaster@futureware.at,
(removed)@survival.pnet.pl, (removed)@atosorigin.com,
(removed)@rmki.kfki.hu, (removed)@waldherr.org, (removed)@eink.com,
(removed)@wardr23.fsnet.co.uk, (removed)@uol.com.br,
(removed)@eng.uts.edu.au, (removed)@libero.it,
(removed)@suite3220.com, (removed)@yahoo.com,
(removed)@pluto.linux.it, (removed)@yahoo.com, (removed)@pe.net,
(removed)@pobox.com, (removed)@struyve.be, (removed)@wakkanet.fi,
(removed)@fzu.cz, (removed)@mac.com, (removed)@sh.cvut.cz,
(removed)@pama.cz, (removed)@kempler.net, (removed)@io.com,
(removed)@zeus.usm.edu.ec, marc@nozell.com,
(removed)@iro.umontreal.ca, (removed)@eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at,
(removed)@scdi.com, (removed)@ces.clemson.edu, (removed)@gmx.de,
(removed)@wspse.de, (removed)@wibblific.fsnet.co.uk,
(removed)@imsb.au.dk, (removed)@libero.it,
(removed)@users.sourceforge.net

[... many forwarded headers missing ...]

Subject: Re: if u delete this u hav no heart!

In a message dated 01/06/2003 9:30:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
LOVEABLE31011 writes:

Hello, My name is Krista Marie and I have anew born baby named Natalie. She
means the world to me, and just resently, the doctors have discovered that
my little Natalie has Brain Cancer. Unfortunatly my husband and I don't have
the money to pay for the bill. But my husband and I have worked out a deal
with AOL and they have agreed to give us 5cents to each person that recived
this e-mail. So please, forward this to everyone you know, and help out my
little Natalie and I.

-Krista Marie

This is the second christian (eagleforchrist) related spam I’ve gotten
recently. I hope this isn’t a trend.

The first was another stranger, “Jim and Chris” ,
sending me this:

There will be a World Day of Prayer, on 3 March 2003 at 3:03 P.M.  A prayer bad
ly needed to heal this world and bring peace.
Pray you will be able to join everyone.

God Bless You

Hmm, I just got some more Unsolicited Commerical Email (UCE) from middletownhealth.org again. Sheeh, and this is after I called and left a message for “Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. - Editor” by calling (845) 342-0000.

Again I gave them a call (~8pm EST), but they office was closed. I left polite voice mail that told them that spam/UCE was not a good way to advertise their company and asked to be removed from their list and for them to email me.

Then I decided to give RKS Marketing & Web Design (http://www.rksmarketing.com/) a call at (952) 417-7040 since they hold the copyright of the website design. The receiptionist forwarded
me to ‘Rog’ (sp?) who informed me that they create similar website for over 200 doctors offices and send out millions of pieces of mail on their behalf. I informed him that I live more than 500 miles away from both middletownhealth.org or northrocklandhealth.org. He said I must have signed up for their free newletter which I told him was not possible since I’ve never lived anywhere near there.

I have run a genealogy mailing list that has a New York State focus and have a number of relatives in the Orange County area, but none would have used my email address, even by accident. I asked that my email address be removed as well as my domain, nozell.com, be put on their banned email list. We’ll see if I get more junk mail from them or not.

I’ve sent email to:

info@rksmarketing.com, href="mailto:info@middletownhealth.org">info@middletownhealth.org,
info@northrockland.org
pointing them to these webblog entries:

• 
  Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C. - The Spamming Doctor — Don’t do business with spammers
  
• href="http://www.nozell.com/cgi/blosxom/spam/2002/10/13#2002-10-13-another-spamming-doctor">
  Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. - Another Spamming Doctor — Don’t do business with spammers
• 
  RKS Marketing & Web Design — reputable marketing company or spamhaus?

The funny thing is if you go a google.com search on either href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=northrocklandhealth">northrocklandhealth or href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=middletownhealth">middletownhealth
my weblog entry is the first hit!

I did some googling on ‘ href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=rksmarketing">rksmarketing‘
and see that they use extremetracking.com to analyse their website hits. Take a look at the href="http://extremetracking.com/open;geo?tag=rstieg">geographic breakdown of hits and notice all the 1, 2, 3 page requests from all kinds of different countries. I wonder if people are looking at their page in response to some spam. One from Brunei, two hits from Saudi Arabia and Thailand, three from Indonesia.

A few years ago I bought a new PC from a large computer manufacturer and dutifully registered with them using a web interface and provided them with a particular email address so I could track who they sold it to. I own my own domain name and have it setup so anything(at)nozell.com gets forwarded to my default address.

So I’ve gotten tired getting junk mail to this particular account — there are over 150 messages in just the first 20 days of October. Most of the messages have a message about click here to reply to this
message and be removed from the mailing list. The most common one from the href="http://www.verticalresponse.com">verticalresponse.com list. Since a lot of spammers use this trick to find ‘live’ email addresses, I was hesitant to remove the address that way. Since thier website looked reasonable and provided a phone number I called up on Friday (17-Oct-2002) and asked the nice woman on the phone to remove the email address. I told her how I track who sold my email and she had no idea how my email make it from the large computer manufacturer to their mailing list but assured me that she would take off the list. I mentioned that some of the email didn’t have their removal notice and said that they just send out the email from lists provided by their
customers and the customers should always have the notice.

Well, it is the weekend and I’m still getting spam to that account, albiet none with the verticalresponse.com message. I’m wondering if verticalresponse.com is just feeding me a line or what. The companies still spamming me are: thesuperspecialsales.com, tremendousbuys.com, summertimedeals.com, greatoffrs.com (yes with the funky spelling), c0olmail.com (with the l33t spelling), and everydayoffers.com.

Here is what the junk box holds for that address:

 144     Oct 19 reply-34872443- ( 117) Check It Out Nortans Software!
 145     Oct 19 Tremendous Buys ( 316) Know what your family does online
 146     Oct 19 ScreenSaver     ( 198) Free Haunted House Screen Saver
 147     Oct 19 GreatDeals      (  81) Important Pet Halloween News
 148     Oct 19 Cool Mail       ( 792) Friend, Government Secured Certificates That Pay You 16%, 18%, up to 50%!!
 149     Oct 19 EveryDayOffers  (  38) Double your Download Speed and get Free Software
 150     Oct 19 Cool Mail       ( 792) Friend, Government Secured Certificates That Pay You 16%, 18%, up to 50%!!
 151     Oct 20 Tremendous Buys ( 198) For the Lip Plumper: Full Pouty Lips - A s Seen On NBC Today Show
 152     Oct 20 Kate            ( 218) Order Confirmation
 153     Oct 20 Super Best Deal ( 790) Friend, Government Secured Certificates That Pay You 16%, 18%, up to 50%!!
 154     Oct 20 Cool Mail       (  92) Friend, Printer Cartridges - Save up to 80% - Free Shipping Offer
 155     Oct 20 Cool Mail       (  92) Friend, Printer Cartridges - Save up to  80% - Free Shipping Offer
 156     Oct 21 The Super Speci (  73) Friend, Prescriptions with Privacy

It seems that this is the week for Doctors Who Spam(tm)! As with
the href="http://www.nozell.com/cgi/blosxom/2002/10/08#spam/2002-10-08-spamming-doc
tor">spam
from Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C, this looks like Jeffrey A. Spina,
D.C. has signed up with marketing company that uses Unsolicited
Commercial Email/Unsolicited Bulk Email.

Friday afternoon I gave Jeffrey A. Spina’s office a call and talked to
the receptionist who told me the doctor was too busy and took down my
name, email and phone number. No call back yet.

This spam from href="mailto:mail@MiddletownHealth.org">mail@MiddletownHealth.org
looks remarkably similar to the href="mailto:info@northrocklandhealth.org">info@northrocklandhealth.org
spam. href="http://www.nozell.com/cgi/blosxom/2002/10/08#spam/2002-10-08-spamming-doc
tor">See
for yourself.

Did you get this spam too? If so give him a call (try collect) and
politely explain why spamming is not a good way to drum up business.
Here is the contact info from http://www.middletownhealth.org/

        Middletown Health Online
        54 Dolson Ave.
        Middletwon, NY 10940 (Yes, they misspelled the name of the town, Mid
dletown)
        Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. - Editor
        E-Mail: info@MiddletownHealt
h.org
        Phone: (845) 342-0000
        Fax: (845) 342-0000

Please remember that the only reason people spam is because some
small fraction of the recipients actually respond to the ad. Please
don’t do business with spammers. Thanks!

Here is the spam I received twice. Be aware that I live about 4 hours
from where Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. practices and have never signed up
for any sort of medical mailing list.

From mail@MiddletownHealth.org Fri Oct 11 16:01:29 2002

Return-path: <mail@MiddletownHealth.org>

Delivery-date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:01:29 -0400

To: marc@nozell.com

From: mail@MiddletownHealth.org

Reply-To: mail@MiddletownHealth.org

Subject: Middletown Health Online

Message-Id: <20021011200853.A67ADB5AD7@relay3.datapeer.com>

Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:08:53 -0400 (EDT)

Lines: 286

Middletown Health Online: All kinds of healthy "stuff" 
"Just keep banging until someone opens the door."
Middletown Health Online, as a free community service,

broadcasts health information to many thousands

of local residents to help improve quality of life

and to provide assistance when having to make

important healthcare decisions. 
We apologize if you received this e-mail in error. To unsubscribe

simply click http://www.MiddletownHealth.org/subscribe.shtml
Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. - Editor

www.MiddletownHealth.org
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Featuring:
1. Family Tips - Laughing away the pain

2. Light & Easy - Beating the blues with exercise

3. Just the facts - Eye Safety

4. Question-of-the-month - Doctors keeping you waiting?

5. Feature Article - Growing up with orthotics

6. Late Breaking Consumer & Natural Health News

7. If selling your home - It's all about curb appeal

8. Health Department Updates

9. Community Calendar - Wazzup 'round town?
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1. Laughing has got to be good for you!

A new study indicates laughter may reduce pain as much as 40%.

Can something that make you feel good stop you from feeling bad?

UCLA Medical Center researchers continue testing this in their

pain labs. How about working there?
Apparently kids are asked to submerge their hands in ice water.

Those watching "funny videos" where able to keep their

hands submerged 40% longer. 
The notion that humor might produce healing enhancing changes

in the body is gaining respect. Regardless, we can all laugh a little

more, and that has to be good.
Excerpts reproduced with permission from

Chiropractic Wellness & Fitness Magazine

www.cwfmonline.org
				

Okay yesterday, I got two copies of the spam below — one to my
personal email address and an identical one to an old work email
address.

So I visited their website and called the number listed there. The
receptionist who answered as happy to take my call and yes this was
Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C.’s office. She was surprised about the spam
(technically Unsolicited Commerical Email/Unsolicited Bulk Email) but
said the Doctor, Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C., ‘does things like that
sometimes’. I explained that the doctor’s junk mail was in the same
category as porn site ads, viagra or penis enlargers. I told her that
it was not a polite advertising policy and like most of the people who
got the email likely weren’t even within 100 miles of Dr. Jay
H. Schwartz, D.C.’s office. I volunteered to talk to the doctor but
Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C. was busy and left my phone number and email.

No reply.

So I’m going the public shaming route.

Did you get this spam too? If so give him a call (try collect) and
politely explain why spamming is not a good way to drum up business.
Here is the contact info from
http://www.northrocklandhealth.org/doctorsoffice.shtml

Phone:  (845) 354-7621
Fax:    (845)354-7627
E-Mail: info@northrocklandhealth.
org
Mail:    Pacesetter Park Rt. 202
         Pomona, NY 10970

Please remember that the only reason people spam is because some
small fraction of the recipients actually respond to the ad. Please
don’t do business with spammers. Thanks!

I wonder if Chiropractic Wellness & Fitness Magazine
(www.cwfmonline.org), Foot Levelers, Inc. (www.footlevelors.com), and
www.ERA.com appreciate being mentioned in this spamming doctor’s junk
mail?

Here is the spam I received twice. Be aware that I live about 4 hours
from where Dr. Jay H. Schwartz practices and have never signed up for
any sort of medical mailing list.

From mail@northrocklandhealth.org Mon Oct 07 13:12:24 2002

Return-path: <mail@northrocklandhealth.org>

Envelope-to: marc@localhost

Delivery-date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:12:24 -0400

[deleted]

Received: from [12.109.176.230] (helo=relay3.datapeer.com)

        by slammer.netnation.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1)

        id 17ybO3-000101-00

        for marc@nozell.com; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 10:09:43 -0700

Received: from localhost (unknown [66.111.253.14])

        by relay3.datapeer.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CE82B60E4

        for <marc@nozell.com>; Mon,  7 Oct 2002 13:25:33 -0400 (EDT)

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

To: marc@nozell.com

From: mail@northrocklandhealth.org

Reply-To: mail@northrocklandhealth.org

Subject: North Rockland Health Online

Message-Id: <20021007172533.2CE82B60E4@relay3.datapeer.com>

Date: Mon,  7 Oct 2002 13:25:33 -0400 (EDT)

North Rockland Health Online: All kinds of healthy "stuff" 
"Just keep banging until someone opens the door."
North Rockland Health Online, as a free community service,

broadcasts health information to many thousands

of local residents to help improve quality of life

and to provide assistance when having to make

important healthcare decisions. 
We apologize if you received this e-mail in error. To unsubscribe

simply click http://www.northrocklandhealth.org/subscribe.shtml
Jay H. Schwartz, D.C. - Editor

www.northrocklandhealth.org
    ==================
AOL USERS: LINKS MAY NOT BE "CLICK-ABLE" FOR YOU.

PLEASECOPY AND PASTE LINKS TO YOUR BROWSER WINDOW.
    ==================
Featuring:
1. Family Tips - Laughing away the pain

2. Light & Easy - Beating the blues with exercise

3. Just the facts - Eye Safety

4. Question-of-the-month - Doctors keeping you waiting?

5. Feature Article - Growing up with orthotics

6. Late Breaking Consumer & Natural Health News

7. If selling your home - It's all about curb appeal

8. Health Department Updates

9. Community Calendar - Wazzup 'round town?
    ==================
1. Laughing has got to be good for you!

A new study indicates laughter may reduce pain as much as 40%.

Can something that make you feel good stop you from feeling bad?

UCLA Medical Center researchers continue testing this in their

pain labs. How about working there?
Apparently kids are asked to submerge their hands in ice water.

Those watching "funny videos" where able to keep their

hands submerged 40% longer. 
The notion that humor might produce healing enhancing changes

in the body is gaining respect. Regardless, we can all laugh a little

more, and that has to be good.
Excerpts reproduced with permission from

Chiropractic Wellness & Fitness Magazine

www.cwfmonline.org