Samples of spam received, part 4

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 4; page 1 is here, page 2 is here, page 3 is here, and page 5 is here.

• Spam claiming to be from jsheldon@math.lsu.edu, also containing the email address profjobs@math.lsu.edu, advertising jobs in the Department of Mathematics at Louisiana State University. Other members of my department got this spam too (and one of them redistributed to the department mailing list!). I won't consider applying for any of these, and I will refuse to write letters of recommendation for anyone who does. Further contact information from the math department web page: dept@math.lsu.edu, and webmaster@math.lsu.edu.
• Another spam trying to persuade me to submit papers to the journal Acta Mathematica Sinica. It claims to be from actamath@amss.ac.cn, with alternate email syc@amss.ac.cn. Needless to say, I won't let them publish anything I write, I won't referee anything for them, and I will avoid referring to papers published there. I have also asked my library to cancel its subscription to this journal.
• Spam on behalf of the Central European Journal of Mathematics, claiming to be from mathematics@cesj.com, and another spam on behalf of the Central European Journal of Mathematics, this one claiming to be from msperling@cesj.net, also containing the email addresses subscriptions@cesj.net and mathematics@cesj.com. On their web sites, I found the additional email addresses bartek@cesj.com, dominika@cesj.com, greg@cesj.com, rpielaszek@cesj.com, betley@cesj.com, and adefratyka@cesj.com. As for Acta Mathematica Sinica, I won't let them publish anything I write, I won't referee anything for them, I will avoid referring to papers published there, and I have asked my library not to subscribe to this journal.
• Repeated spams: spam, claiming to be from bookbuyer@textbookreusers.com, spam, claiming to be from jay@textbookreusers.com, spam, claiming to be from jay@textbookreusers.com, advertising the visit of someone who wants to buy my unneeded textbooks. They all claim to be on behalf of Jay Wise, who, one might guess, has to keep changing his email address to deflect complaints from the people he has spammed. I will take my business elsewhere.
• Spam on behalf of a Prentice Hall textbook, claiming to be from Math_Service@prenhall.com, also containing the email address sara_bredbenner@prenhall.com. They "appreciate" my considering a particular textbook. As a result of their spam, I am not considering this book. See here for other Prentice Hall spam.
• Spam on behalf of a different Prentice Hall textbook, claiming to be from Math_Service@prenhall.com, also containing the email address sara_bredbenner@prenhall.com. They sent me an unsolicted free sample of a statistics textbook, and now send me spam asking what I think of it. I will answer here: this book is unacceptable because it is promoted via spam. See here for other Prentice Hall spam.
• Spam claiming to be from stevendharding@hotmail.com, advertising Horizon Air, and containing so much html coding as to be nearly unreadable. I will use a different airline.
• The Copy Shop still keeps spamming me. This one claims to be from Ericae730@aol.com, and refers to the email address thecopyshop@qwest.net. The spam message is bloated with a second copy of the message filled with html tags.
• Riverdeep, Broderbund, The Learning Company, and Edmark Software spams me, first by sending an ad for "Print Shop" on Windows systems in response to an inquiry about KidPix on a Mac (from support@broderbund.com), and then, weeks later, an ad for antispyware on Windows systems (from specialoffers@partnerinfo.broderbund.com). Fortunately, I gave them a throwaway account, which I cancelled after the antispyware spam For all I know, they are still spamming that account. I certainly won't be buying any software from them.
• Spam 1, Spam 2, Spam 3, claiming to be from intercon@ds-dataset.com, each coming a week apart, advertising software that runs only on a system I don't have. I was not the only one in the department to receive this spam. Complaints via SpamCop did nothing; the spam only stopped after I asked our local computer administrator to block it. Following links on the spamvertised web site led to the contact addresses info@interconus.com and cstrouthos@interconus.com.
• Spam claiming to be from info@isict.org, also containing the email addresses workshops@isict.org nocfp@isict.org. It advertises a conference with no connection with anything I have ever done, and whose organizers are apparently so desperate for attendance that they flood the internet with bulk emailed ads for it.
• Spam claiming to be from info@intsymict.org. It also advertises a conference with no connection with anything I have ever done, and whose organizers are apparently so desperate for attendance that they flood the internet with bulk emailed ads for it. Its web site also has the addresses webmaster@intsymict.org and workshops@intsymict.org.
• Spam claiming to be from wseas_math@canada.com. It advertises yet another conference with no connection with anything I have ever done, and whose organizers are also apparently so desperate for attendance that they flood the internet with bulk emailed ads for it. Here is another spam, claiming to be from wseas_math@canada.com, for the same thing.
• OsPIRG ("Oregon State Public Interest Research Group") spams the University of Oregon Math Department, apparently from Arista Ann Hickman (ahickma1@gladstone.uoregon.edu). If they were really interested in the public interest, they would be trying to stop spam instead of generating more of it.
• Wolfram, publishers of Mathematica, spams me (claiming to be from mailer@mercury.wolfram.com, also containing the email address mathwire@wolfram.com) and spams me again (claiming to be from mailer@mercury.wolfram.com, also containing the email address education@wolfram.com). I made the mistake of not using a throwaway account when registering something. I won't again, and I will avoid them as much as I can.
• Spam for the computer algebra system Maple, claiming to be from bdavidson@maplesoft.com, also containing the email addresses unsubscribe@maplesoft.com, privacy@maplesoft.com, adoption@maplesoft.com, and the toll free telephone number 800-267-6583. Following links on the spamvertised web site, I found further contact information custservice@maplesoft.com, info@maplesoft.com, info-europe@maplesoft.com, hr@maplesoft.com, press@maplesoft.com, applications@maplesoft.com, bizdev@maplesoft.com, and webmaster@maplesoft.com. You can let all of these people know what you think of spam.
• Spam claiming to be from postmaster@tug.org, and containing the email address tug-news@tug.org, advertising a conference of the TeX Users Group, an organization I have no connection with. The spamvertised web page also contained the email addresses conferences@tug.org and webmaster@tug.org.
• Spam claiming to be from pagrest@stockcero.com, also containing the email address academicservices@stockcero.com, who threatens further spam, "Periodically we will send you news ...".
• Repeated crank spams: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, claiming to be from cooool@online.no ("nils e"), which are from a crank who wants me to forward his nonssense to "100 newspapers, rockgroups [!], radios" because "I am only 1 worker on projects". Eventually this spam was stopped, so now there are no workers on his projects.
• Spam claiming to be from miga@software.dk, sent by idiots who think I would buy a directory of American hospitals from someone in Denmark.
• Spam claiming to be from msinclair@iname.com, and containing the email address orders@crcpress.com, advertising a numerical analysis book published by CRC Press. A complaint sent there received no response, so here is contact information from its web pages: orders@crcpress.com, sales@tandf.com.sg, uk.tandf@thomsonpublishingservices.co.uk, international.tandf@thomsonpublishingservices.co.uk, webmaster@crcpress.com, techsupport@crcpress.com, newsdiv@crcpress.com, e-products@crcpress.com, bfeldman@crcpress.com, dacord@crcpress.com, lament@crcpress.com, jlavender@crcpress.com (Senior VP, publishing), and various editors: rohanley@crcpress.com, lhofmeister@crcpress.com, fmacdonald@crcpress.com, ccarelli@crcpress.com, nkonopka@crcpress.com, mslaughter@crcpress.com, dfausel@crcpress.com, rcohen@crcpress.com, BMcEldowney@crcpress.com, sfarmer@crcpress.com, bnorwitz@crcpress.com, jwyzalek@crcpress.com, jsulzycki@crcpress.com, jspiegel@crcpress.com, bbarry@crcpress.com, snair@crcpress.com, bstern@crcpress.com, szollo@crcpress.com, kstroud@crcpress.com, swells@crcpress.com.
• Spam claiming to be from jrittberg@shaw.ca, containing a large pdf file, probably a crank resorting to spamming as a substitute for publication.
• Spam claiming to be from avi@wap.mirs.co.il, and containing the email address dr_ferrari_a@yahoo.fr, advertising something about Arafat and corruption. It is hard to tell what because it is all html and even javascript. I don't know whether Arafat is corrupt, but whoever sent this spam is certainly corrupt: stealing other people's computer time to promote his politics.
• Spam in Spanish(?), which I can't read, claiming to be from sofimarsola@terra.es, and containing the email addresses sofi@freeautobot.com and sofia_matinez@yahoo.es.
• Spam claiming to be from dva537iggx@mystupidschool.com, unreadable because it consists mostly of html encoding. SpamCop generated the email address kevin_jterreck@yahoo.com for the administrator of the spamvertised web sites www.cdcheap.biz/bestsoftware/?benchmark and www.cdcheap.biz/bestsoftware/?dockyard.
• An encoded spam claiming to be from enchantjoe@earthlink.net, which is the same apparent source of a number of other similar unsolicited encoded email messages.
• Spam claiming to be from barrwalter25005@netscape.net, also containing the email address barristerjohndavid@excite.com, and claiming I have won an imaginary lottery. I don't know what the scam behind it is; maybe a variant of the African money transfer scam?
• Spam claiming to be from melissax5@mail.austria.com, also containing the email addresses con_blake@mail2world.com, and Conrad_blake@your-house.com, and claiming I have won another imaginary lottery. The scam behind it is probably the same as the scam behind the first one.
• Spam claiming to be from virusengelleme@mynet.com, apparently about viruses but in a language I can't read.
• Spam claiming to be from rolling200308@yahoo.com, also containing the email addresses missinaibi@ureach.com and isabella@gamebox.net, claiming to be able to show how to obtain a brand new credit file, "Completely Independent Of Any Past Negative Credit". Call toll free at 877-832-7860.
• Encoded spam claiming to be from skizahqkpk@amazon.com. Here is the decoded version (with "http" replaced by "XXXX"), containing some kind of multilevel marketing scam, and all the usual lies of spammers. I certainly did not opt in to anything like this.
• Spam claiming to be from hniaerovira@aol.com, also containing the email address juliette@isp.com, promising a cheap way to give myself lung cancer, but whose text is unreadable because it is mostly html encoding.
• Spam claiming to be from EUGENEAHNE@yahoo.CA, claiming to be able to stop spam (!). The spam was encoded and unreadable; here is the decoded version. I suspect that if I had responded, I would have gotten more spam, not less.
• Spam, probably originally a virus, claiming to be from engineer_chem@excite.com.
• Spam claiming to be from programmers@caltanet.it, also containing the email address optout@o2.pl, promising diplomas, probably without any evidence of qualification, although it is hard to tell because all the html encoding makes the message nearly unreadable.
• Spam claiming to be from Beau.anchor@hotmail.com, also containing the email addresses Jessie.studebaker@hotmail.com and Jessie.parsimonious@hotmail.com, offering diplomas, even Ph.D.'s, "No one is turned down!"
• A virtually identical diploma spam claiming to be from Darin.furrow@msn.com, also containing the email addresses Booker.galt@hotmail.com, Booker.jiggle@hotmail.com, and Booker.bethel@hotmail.com.
• Spam claiming to be from MarketMonitor@dedicated.prserv.net, advertising a penny stock that is probably worthless.
• Spam claiming to be from SoniaMasters@keri.com.au, which has periods in the middle of words. Who would buy something from people who can't even write correctly?
• An eleventh spam claiming to be from freevideo@freemail.hu, advertising something consisting of what looks like links to Windows executable files. The complete collection is listed here.
• Fraudulent solicitations to assist with bank transfers of large sums of money:
  • Scam claiming to be from t_shields11@yahoo.com, reply to header tony-shield@webmail.co.za.
  • Scam claiming to be from samuel_2003@i2828.com, with ssamuel@hknetmail.com in the text of the message.
  • Scam claiming to be from law_kenneth60@yahoo.com.
  • Scam claiming to be from wcg_58@asiaapacific.com.
  • Scam claiming to be from babatapha_uc22@yahoo.co.nz, with babatapha_uc@yahoo.co.nz in the text of the message.
  • Scam claiming to be from tamat@webmail.co.za.
  • Scam claiming to be from pastorlee2004@yahoo.com, reply to header pastorlee115@yahoo.com.
  • Scam claiming to be from pastor_lee2004@yahoo.com, with pastorlee115@yahoo.com in the text of the message.
  • Scam claiming to be from pastorlee2004@yahoo.com, reply to header pastorlee115@yahoo.com.
  • Scam claiming to be from pastorlee2004@yahoo.com, reply to header pastorlee2004@yahoo.com. (Evidently this one thinks he will be more convincing if he sends multiple copies, with slightly different email addresses in them.)
  • Scam claiming to be from phalabo11@yahoo.com, with langalanga@bankersmail.com in the text of the message.
  • Scam claiming to be from leo@redsmvp.com, with chenduleo@zonai.com in the text of the message.
  • Scam claiming to be from m_lurther@achayans.com, with lurther_esq@yahoo.com in the text of the message.
  • Scam claiming to be from maabaa212aba@gawab.com.
  • Scam claiming to be from amigo_ug1@zonai.com, with amigo_ug@yahoo.co.uk in the text of the message.
  • Scam claiming to be from amigo_ug1@zonai.com, with amigo_ug@yahoo.co.uk in the text of the message.
  • Scam claiming to be from janet_mukadi9@hotmail.com.
  • Scam claiming to be from mukadijanet1@hotmail.com.
  • Scam claiming to be from tearsofjoy_453@yahoo.fr.
  • Scam claiming to be from dasilverkambo@yahoo.co.uk.
  • Scam claiming to be from dr_chijioke@yahoo.ca.
  • Scam claiming to be from mathewarckerman@katamail.com.
  • Scam claiming to be from adewills2000@yahoo.com, with drekeson@yahoo.com in the text of the message.
  • Scam claiming to be from philipsajayi_lawhouse@familybusiness.biz, with philipajayi@indiatimes.com in the text of the message.
  • Scam claiming to be from soloali@mailbox.co.za.
  • Scam claiming to be from louisbeka014@yahoo.com, reply to header louisbeka@myway.com.
  • Scam claiming to be from bensonking84@yahoo.com, reply to header bensonking14@yahoo.com.
  • Scam claiming to be from johbrash@gay.com, with johnbrash@freesurf.fr in the text of the message.
  • Six essentially identical scams: Scam 1 claiming to be from gaiuschikere@nzoomail.com, with gaius113@yahoo.com in the text of the message; Scam 2 claiming to be from gaiuschikere@nzoomail.com, with gaius113@yahoo.com in the text of the message; Scam 3 claiming to be from gaiuschikere@nzoomail.com, with gaius113@yahoo.com in the text of the message; Scam 4 claiming to be from gaiuschikere@nzoomail.com, with gaius113@yahoo.com in the text of the message; Scam 5 claiming to be from gaiuschikere@nzoomail.com, with gaius113@yahoo.com in the text of the message; Scam 6 claiming to be from gaiuschikere@nzoomail.com, with gaius113@yahoo.com in the text of the message.
  • Scam claiming to be from mr_ebere@yahoo.co.uk, reply to header fan855@hotmail.com, with vitaliswaco@hotmail.com and vitsliswaco@hotmail.com in the text of the message.
  • Scam claiming to be from aesei3@post.cz, reply to header abba_d2@tiscali.co.uk.
  • Scam claiming to be from abdulgay1@dubaimail.com, reply to header abdulgay2@dubaimail.com.
  • Scam claiming to be from abdulgaya1@dubaimail.com, reply to header abdulgaya2@dubaimail.com.
  • Scam claiming to be from ghgv1806mfj@yahoo.com, reply to header grahamgravey@zwallet.com.
  • Scam claiming to be from worndor_hanson@yahoo.ca, reply to header elex_12000@yahoo.ca.
  • Scam claiming to be from micheal_harni@nyc.com, reply to header micheal_harni2001@yahoo.co.uk, with micheal_harni2001@yahoo.co.uk in the text of the message.
  • Scam claiming to be from pri44ibe@webmail.co.za.
  • Scam claiming to be from bige@omaninfo.com.