Samples of spam received, part 6
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 6; page 1 is here,
page 2 is here,
page 3 is here,
page 4 is here,
and page 5 is here.
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Hindawi spam
on behalf of the journals "International
Mathematics Research Notices",
"Applied Mathematics Research eXpress",
and
"International Mathematics Research Papers",
claiming to be from
orders@hindawi.com
or
orders@hindawi.com@mail.hindawi.org
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 these journals.
The same goes for any other journals published by the same company.
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More Hindawi spam
claiming to be from
archive@hindawi.com
or
archive@hindawi.com@mail.hindawi.org,
this one advertising sometyhing called "Hindawi Archive 2004".
Email addresses from the web site:
orders@hindawi.com,
claims@hindawi.com,
consortia@hindawi.com,
admin@alert.hindawi.com,
hindawi@hindawi.com,
jobs@hindawi.com,
books.orders@hindawi.com,
amrx.submit@hindawi.com,
bvp.submit@hindawi.com,
ijmms.submit@hindawi.com,
imrn.submit@hindawi.com,
jam.submit@hindawi.com,
imrs.ed@hindawi.com,
jamsa.submit@hindawi.com,
jammc.submit@hindawi.com,
jia.submit@hindawi.com,
mpe.submit@hindawi.com,
f.zijlstra@erasmusmc.nl,
and
r.j.flower@qmw.ac.uk.
Fax them (toll free in the US) at 866-446-3294 to let them know what you
think of spamming publishers.
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Spam
on behalf of the "Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics",
claiming to be from
qjpam@henu.edu.cn.
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.
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Yet more repeated spams:
spam,
claiming to be from
jay@textbookreusers.com,
and also containing the email address
Jay@textbookreusers.com,
spam,
claiming to be from
jay@textbookreusers.com,
and also containing the email address
Jay@textbookreusers.com,
spam,
claiming to be from
jay@textbookreusers.com
and also containing the email address
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.
All these spams
are so packed with html encoding as to be incomprehensible.
Apparently they were produced with something called
"High Impact eMail",
but as far as its effect on me is concerned,
it would be better called "Zero Impact eMail".
The textbookreusers.com website also has the email address
customerservice@textbookreusers.com.
The spam appears to have been sent via bookbyte.com,
and its website contains the email addresses
customerservice@bookbyte.com,
mfreed@bookbyte.com,
and webmaster@bookbyte.com,
See here for other spam
advertising Jay Wise.
I will take my business elsewhere.
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Wolfram, publishers of Mathematica,
spams me
(claiming to be from
mailer@mercury.wolfram.com,
also containing the email address
education@wolfram.com),
spams me again
(claiming to be from
mailer@mercury.wolfram.com,
also containing the email addresses
info@wolfram.com
and
site-program@wolfram.com),
spams me yet again
(claiming to be from
mailer@mercury.wolfram.com,
also containing the email addresses
education@wolfram.com),
spams me a fourth time
(claiming to be from
mailer@wolfram.com,
also containing the email address
mathwire@wolfram.com),
spams me a fifth time
(claiming to be from
mailer@wolfram.com,
also containing the email address
mathwire@wolfram.com),
spams me a sixth time
(claiming to be from
mailer@wolfram.com,
also containing the email addresses
education@wolfram.com),
spams me a seventh time
(claiming to be from
mailer@wolfram.com,
also containing the email address
sw-office@wolfram.com),
and spams me an eighth time
(claiming to be from
mailer@wolfram.com,
also containing the email addresses
sw-office@wolfram.com).
I made the mistake of not using a throwaway account when
registering something,
and I got spammed repeatedly even though I left no boxes
checked asking for further email.
I won't make this mistake again, and I will avoid Wolfram as much as I can.
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Spam
claiming to be from
partners@experience.com.
The spam advertises flowers, but claims to be associated
with "experience.com", apparently a career contacts site.
I can think of many better careers than spamming to sell flowers.
Email addresses from the web site:
universityinfo@experience.com,
news@experience.com,
and
support@experience.com.
US toll-free phone numbers at which you can complain about
their cooperation with spammers:
800-489-7611, 866-397-5627, 866-397-4636, 800-583-7741, and 866-397-5627.
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Spam
claiming to be from
VWR_usa@permissionone.com,
spamvertising laboratory equipment from
VWR International to a pure mathematician.
Here is who permissionone.com is
according to
Sam Spade.
Contacts from there:
info@mission-one.de
and domains@scan-plus.de.
(apparently VWR International outsourced its spamming to Germany.)
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Spam
for "writing workshops",
claiming to be from
YWALouisa@aol.com,
and also containing the email address
ywalouisa@aol.com.
Here is who they are
according to
Sam Spade.
Contacts from there:
louisa@datahost.com,
dreg2@datahost.com,
and staff@datahost.com.
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Spam
claiming to be from
breil@authentemail.com,
advertising a spamming service
(oh, excuse me, a "mailing list" service).
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Spam
claiming to be from
lilithsteadman@hotmail.com,
containing a large encoded jpg file claimed to have something to
do with the 2004 presidential election.
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Spam
claiming to be from
sarahwright_34@hotmail.com,
asking for help with a math qualifying exam problem.
The spam didn't come from a university address,
so who knows what the real story is.
Since the problem has no serious connection with my research,
I can only suppose that this spam was sent to a large number of
mathematicians.
I hope the spammer got lots of wrong answers.
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Another mathematical spam
claiming to be from
sadegh_zandieh@yahoo.com,
asking for help understanding a research paper I know nothing about.
How many mathematicians worldwide did this person spam?
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Spam
claiming to be from
my_moral_philosophy_too@yahoo.co.jp,
with text containing just one line of gibberish.
This spammer's "moral philosophy" evidently consists of
a mixture of dollar signs and random capital letters;
I suppose it really means "spam".
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Spam
claiming to be from
jkerfein@aristotle.net,
and also containing the email addresses
edatasource@aol.com
and Edatasource@aol.com.
Spammer lie:
"you have agreed to receive our offers."
The appear to be advertising "email marketing";
judging by what I got, this means spamming services.
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Spam
claiming to be from
Gahlan@netposta.net,
and also containing the email address
manager@job-softservice.biz.
This one thinks I would work for a spammer.
It would be more productive to go on welfare instead.
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Spam
claiming to be from
personalbanking@wamu.com,
supposedly "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from WaMu"
(but maybe it is a phish).
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More fraudulent lottery spams:
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Fraudulent solicitations to assist with bank transfers of large sums of
money: