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SPAM - "MSI International"

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by bwilson4web, Sep 26, 2009.

  1. bwilson4web

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    "MSI International" sent a survey requests that meets SPAM criteria:

    • e-mail sent Friday at 4:16 PM - wrong time, wrong media
    • "chance to win 1 of 4 Nintendo Wii consoles." - surveys like Arbitron, have a fixed fee system, not a lottery, and they send a postal mail survey form. Online forms are nonsense.
    • multiple "MSI International" web sites, different companies
    • "online survey hosted on MSI’s secure website" - but it is not an "https" URL
    • MAILTO link has subject "Audio Entertainment Systems Survey"
    E-mail SPAM, cleverly done, but SPAM none the less. The source e-mail address for SPAM filters:

    feedbacktoyota @ msimsi.com

    Weird, they make a lot of claims that this is a Toyota sponsored survey ... If so, Toyota needs to find someone else.

    Bob Wilson
     
    #1 bwilson4web, Sep 26, 2009
  2. TheForce

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    Do you use [email protected] email addresses to find out how they got your email address?

    Just wondering because that's what I do. If I see a spam sent to [email protected] I know not to do business with that site again and block that address. My spam has been down to only a few per year and most of them get through my reply address because of peoples insecure bot infested computers.
     
    #2 TheForce, Sep 26, 2009
  3. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    how does that work?
     
    #3 Tideland Prius, Sep 26, 2009
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    TheForce Stop War! Lets Rave! Make Love!

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    It works just like I describe and it works great.
     
    #4 TheForce, Sep 26, 2009
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    Not to be confused with MSI, a Taiwan/China computer manufacturer. I have one if their sub-kilo notebooks and really like it.

    Ad ends, back to spam-watching :)
     
    #5 tochatihu, Sep 26, 2009
  6. Sphyrna

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    It works IF you have a domain with email and set up the email to allow anything with @yourdomain to get through and routed to a valid account for you to look at later.

    When you do business on a website, or sign upfor something online and they ask you for an email address, you enter theirwebsitename@yourdomain. If they use the list to sell to others or spam you, you'll know the source was that website.
     
    #6 Sphyrna, Sep 26, 2009
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    I'm confused. Do you forward the spam e-mail or is it a website address?
     
    #7 Tideland Prius, Sep 27, 2009
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