Blog Category: Spam & Scam Watch

One of my clients sent me a spam email she received recently. This particular spam is worthy of note in my blog, because it attempts to fool the recipient into contacting the spam sender because they claim to have the wrong address and contact information. Take a gander:

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I just got spam in my WordPress blog. Nothing odd about that. But what is odd, is that I recently wrote a post about getting spam from Amsterdam from IP addresses like 94.102.60.152. I added the IP address to my blacklist and the spam is now getting caught by Akismet. But then tonight a strange thing happened…

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Today I received four similar spam comments in my WordPress blog. All four had email addresses that appeared to be randomly generated, and the comments were a single line of randomly generated letters and numbers, like j2miob2e5gylwz9w. But the interesting thing is: that they are all from Amsterdam.

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I wanted to share with you another SEO (search engine optimization) and link building spam email one of my clients received and forwarded to me. If you remember my previous article about how to tell whether a company that sends you unsolicited email is virtuous, you should be able to decipher this one yourselves:

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I’ve just receive an email spam that attempts to prey on folks who are having trouble paying their mortgages - which is pretty cruel. I’ll use this an an example of how to identify potentially fraudulent spam emails, what the CAN-SPAM act is, and how you can report folks that violate it.

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I received a classic email scam today that I wanted to share, just in case there was someone out there who was actually tempted to call the phone number. The email is from “George Aguie” of the “Abidjan ivory coast west Africa” and the return email address is “[email protected]“.

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Like many of my blog articles, this one comes as a result of a client asking me to look into a suspicious correspondence received concerning their website. In this particular case, my client received a fax from a company called “Domain Registry Rights”. The fax was chock full of legal-speak, with scary words like “protecting a domain registrant” and poorly written warnings like “you are required to advise the domain notification processor of you intent to license this name or the expiration of this notice”. Very scary stuff, even with the grammatical errors.

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