Sample Home Financing Spam - Bad Credit
Another complete waste of time are Home Financing and Bad Credit spams. These types of spam promises unconditional pre-approved credit and requests that you click on the link and fill out a form. As soon as you submit your information, you will be directed to loads more websites promoting anything from holiday vacations to face cream. While the form serves to capture more email leads, the websites it redirects to are affiliate programs which the spammer signed up with. Needless to say, responding to the ad or purchasing from them is a sure passport to more spam in your inbox.
These messages usually link to temporary websites registered specifically for their spamming. They are mass produced using templates and registered shortly before the spam is sent. In a short while, the website will be blacklisted by every known community, including Google. Having served its purpose, the spammer then moves on and registers another website.
In the interest of originality, the body of the message is left unaltered as much as possible. But for security reasons, and to protect the reputation of our own website from being seen as linking to bogus websites, the links in the spam message have been disabled. Placing your mouse over them will show the original url it intended to link to, but clicking on them will bring you to spamhaus.org, a non-profit organization for combating spam.
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From: "amanda" <thomas@hotreel.com>
To: you@yahoo.com Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:54:35 -0800 Subject: (no subject) How are you doing today. I hope that you are sitting down because I found that site that you couldn't find. I almost gave up but luckily I did find it so here you go http://quantumcreditrepair.com/49r9==siRd$ss0,szdps/. I almost forgot, I looked at it and it is something that you should look at and it will help you right now and they do not want any money to get your problems eliminated, and not only that if you do not like what you see while you are there just say so and you will never bothered by them again. |
Points to note :-
- Forged from email thomas@hotreel.com
- The link to http://quantumcreditrepair.com/49r9==siRd$ss0,szdps/ is a tracking url. The the garbage at the end of the url associates the message to the email address it was sent to.
- Upon clicking the link and filling in the form, the visitor is then offerred loads of other products which have nothing to do with home financing. These are all affiliate programs which the spammer has an account with.
- Further investigation reveals that this is a prolific spammer who uses extensive tracking tools and had signed up with possibly hundreds of affiliate programs. Some examples are food supplements, insurance, debt relief, toys and many others. Its also interesting that many of the programs are no longer active, indicating that his account had been shut down for presumably spamming. Its amazing that such spammers have inexhaustible energy to register new accounts as quickly as they are shutdown.
- The email message originated from the USA.