Samples of spam received, part 2

This page lists, for the perusal of the public, some of the spam (bulk junk email, unsolicited commercial email, etc.) received here. Spammers steal other people's resources for their advertising, so please don't do business with them. This is page 2; page 1 is here, page 3 is here, page 4 is here, and page 5 is here.

A French spam, from affiliation@digitall.fr and also containing the email address benjamin.lohou@grolier.fr. The contact page at the apparent spamvertised web site gave these addresses: service@digitall.fr and and webmaster@digitall.fr. Looking up at http://www.nic.fr/cgi-bin/whois revealed this information, including these contacts: dnsmaster@grolier.fr and sylvain.bizoirre@grolier.fr.
Three essentially identical spams, spam 1, spam 2, and spam 3, from alojetic@satyam.net.in in India, claiming to have job opportunities with a company whose apparent main selling point is this it is American. A reply brought this monstrosity.
A spam from int10132@rediffmail.com claiming somebody in BC can help me make large amounts of money stuffing envelopes. Here is another, this time from int10166@rediffmail.com, advertising the same thing.
A spam from jojimmy@angelfire.com which contains so much superfluous html coding (in an email message!) that I couldn't figure out very well what the spam was really for.
A spam from shaliczer@higheredworld.org, who claims to be a "Distinguished Research Professor" at the Northern Illinois University. Searching their web site revealed that there is indeed such a person in their history department. The spam referred to "Senate Bill 1618", which never passed, and was in any case introduced in the 1997-1998 congressional session. Since the spam was sent in October 2000, if it was really from a "Distinguished Research Professor" then it was from an astoundingly ignorant "Distinguished Research Professor". An email to the address in the spam got this reply (with no message body) from the address haliczer@addr12.addr.com. Sam Spade revealed this information about the spamvertised site, including the contact address shaliczer@NIU.EDU.
A spam from PriceFile@yahoo.com. Sam Spade revealed this information about the spamvertised site, including the contact addresses max@BITSTREAM.NET and smileycpro@AOL.COM.
A spam from i_luv_spam@unbounded.com, also using the address spammers_rule@yahoo.com in the headers, clearly an unrepentant spammer who knows exactly what he is doing. The real contact address is found in the body of the message: rewindmail@excite.com.
A spam from b.toro@numeritek.com, advertising numerical software. Needless to say, I won't be using it. Sam Spade revealed this information about the spamvertised site, including the contact addresses hostmaster@GXN.NET and internic-accounts@GLOBAL.NET.UK. The spamvertised web site also revealed the address inquiries@numeritek.com. The author of the spamvertised item is probably Eleuterio F. Toro (E.F.Toro@doc.mmu.ac.uk). I never received a reply to my complaint to this address. (This information was obtained by using the American Mathematical Society Combined Membership List, and following up at the web site of the university listed in the address.)
Another textbook spam, this time from mbova@harcourt.com (Harcourt/Academic Press), also using the address hapmktg@harcourt.com in the headers. The spam is about one tenth of a megabyte, an outrageous size, and mostly consists of unreadable encoded files. Poking around in the spamming publisher's web site yielded the following contact addresses: inquiries@harcourt-ap.com, jhayhurst@harcourt.com, ndonaghy@acad.com, baholland@harcourt.com, kfrost@harcourt.com, mrutter@harcourt.com, sstevens@harcourt.com, and van_strength@harcourt.com.
A spam from webmaster@dllCentral.com, wanting me to find "dll files" on his web site. I would certainly never trust a file on my computer from a spammer! The spam also uses the sequence "=20" instead of spaces, making it very hard to read. Sam Spade revealed this information about the spamvertised site, including the contact address lildones@aol.com. Some of the web pages at its site are actually on the domain r41h158.res.gatech.edu, and for this domain Sam Spade revealed this information, including the contact addresses Herbert.Baines@OIT.GATECH.EDU and hostmaster@GATECH.EDU. Poking around in the website also revealed the email addresses incoming@dllCentral.com and info@ikonboard.com. Here, according to Sam Spade, is the registration information for the people that apparently provide the spamvertised web site's discussion board, with contact addresses matt@ikondiscussion.com and webmaster@webfusion.co.uk.
A spam from rosenstiel.1@osu.edu, who claims to be a dental professor at The Ohio State University.
A spam from rscott4584@hotmail.com, promising "tons of Free Stuff For signing up".
A spam from krieger101@hotmail.com, consisting mostly of html coding, advertising a web site (since closed) and a large number of web based "programs" the spammer wants me to participate in. The PayPal program advertisement suggests that the spammer's real email address might be tom-krieger@socket.net.
A spam from skeletonkey@hbzmail.com, who wants to sell me a key which can "Open ANY lock in seconds!!!".
A spam from coolstuff@thespark.com, who also wants to sell me a key which can "Open ALL locks quickly with ease", as well as some other things that look rather questionable.
A chain letter spam from (depending on which header line you believe) dragsterpr@yahoo.com, tunes@coqui.net, hpw2@swr3.de, or appli@aol.com.
A spam from info2@shanghai-industry.com, who claims to have something to do with some business development project in Shanghai, and a second spam from the same source. Sam Spade revealed this information about the spamvertised site, including the contact addresses susan_z@163.NET and domainadm@HICHINA.COM. Checking again after the second spam gave this new information about the spamvertised site, including the contact addresses susan_z@163.NET (same as before) and domain@1STCHINA.COM.
A spam from winatrip@yahoo.com, which, in a blatant falsehood, claims "You received this e-mail at the request of your friend, who is indicated in the "From" line of this e-mail." Sam Spade revealed this information about the spamvertised site, including the contact addresses jeffc@FIBER.NET and hostmaster@FIBER.NET. From the spamvertised web site, I obtained the email address members@webmiles.com.
Some time ago, I received this spam from Seth_H_Reichlin@prenhall.com of Prentice-Hall (or, according to the message body, seth@prenhall.com) advertising mathematics textbooks. (The claim that I "teach Multivariable Calculus regularly" is, as usual with spammers, a blatant lie.) Complaining to the company brought the admission that the spammer knew people would be annoyed, but went ahead and did it anyway. I tracked down the authors of the spamvertised books, herb@riemann.math.mun.ca, rogers@math.mit.edu, sjcolley@math.oberlin.edu, and swami@math.mun.ca, using the American Mathematical Society Combined Membership List, but email to them brought either no response or merely platitudes. More recently, I got another spam from the same company, emailed from Math_Service@prenhall.com or maybe sreichli@prenhall.com (according to the headers), and containing the email address sara_bredbenner@prenhall.com. Of course, I don't teach the course related to this book regularly either. My complaint this time led to email correspondence in which eventually someone from the company seemed to be claiming that sending me an unsolicted free sample created a prior business relationship with me! Sam Spade revealed this information about the spamvertised site, including the contact address hostmaster@PRENHALL.COM.
A spam from LOGIC@imneverwrong.com, a particularly blatant crank. Complaints to the apparent provider of the domain from which the email originated yielded, at least at first, no response (despite a promising sounding abuse policy). Sam Spade revealed this information about the domain provider, including the contact address abuse@MYOWNEMAIL.COM. and hostmaster@FIBER.NET.
A spam from another crank, yqk@yun-qi.com. He operates his own domain; Sam Spade revealed this information about it, including the contact address cywang@yun-qi.com. From the spamvertised web site, I obtained the email address y-q@yun-qi.com.
Three unsolicited commercial email messages from "Norwest Textbooks", which wants to buy old textbooks from me: spam 1, spam 2, and spam 3, email norwesttextbooks@worldlogon.com. They were addressed to me by name, so I simply ignored the first one. But they kept on coming. Apparently I was added to a mailing list without my permission.
A spam apparently from Abdellatif Bourhim, who claims to have just received a Ph.D. in mathematics and be looking for a job. It was sent from bourhim@ictp.trieste.it, with the additional email address abourhim@fsr.ac.ma in the text of the message. If it were someone in my area and clearly directed to me, or if I were on the hiring committee, I would accept it. But this message appears to have been emailed indiscriminately to a large number of mathematicians whose research has little to do with that of the sender.
A spam from somebody apparently trying to sell me insurance (but it is hard to tell). The addresses in the headers apparently don't exist, but it was possible (with some effort) to extract the apparently real addresses reply1551@xyz002.com and remove1551@xyz002.com from the text.
A spam from pohanl@hotmail.com, advertising a web page about Taoism. This person apparently operates the entire domain, since the same address is listed as the contact address when one follows the appropriate link, and since it is also given as administrative and billing contact in the information about the spamvertised site obtained from Sam Spade.
A spam from sdre341@yahoo.com, who is apparently trying to start a chain letter disguised as report orders.
Nine abusive emails: no. 1, no. 2, no. 3, no. 4, no. 5, no. 6, no. 7, no. 8, no. 9, all apparently from the same source, kentrbaker@pcu.net. All are large (typically over 100K) and encoded; decoding them gives incomprehensible binary files. The apparent source domain, pcu.net, bounces complaints sent through abuse.net.