Mr John Zhang
29 October 2010 - 07:02 AM |
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If you happen to own any domain names, you may one day be the lucky recipient of a message that begins something like:
I'm sorry to disturb you so abrupt. We are a domain name registration service company in Asia, On 25th October. we received a formal application submitted by Mr. John Zhang who
wanted to use the keyword "blahblah" to register the Internet Brand and with suffix such as .cn /.com.cn /.net.cn /.hk /.asia / domain names. After our initial examination, we found that these domain names to be applied for registration are same as your domain name and trademark. ...
The message goes on to say that they 'have hold down his registration'
for the time being (because apparently they suspect that Mr Zhang may be a 'domain investor'
and see this as their duty as an 'authorized anti-cybersquatting organization'
). However, if they don't hear from you in five days, they're going to go ahead and give Mr Zhang what he wants.
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Somebody set us up the spam
08 October 2010 - 07:34 AM |
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Many spammers are not native English speakers, and some of their messages may be a little eccentric. Lately, however, they seem to have been outdoing themselves. Consider, for example, this text which appeared on a pop-up dialog on one of those sites that pretends to be scanning your hard disk for viruses so that it can trick you into downloading a virus:
Warning! On your computer detected the malicious code. Should immediately make sure that your system is safe! Killing Hazard (R) for Microsoft Windows XP immediately started to work.
I'm not quite sure what all that means, but it does make me wonder if they're getting Yoda to write their texts for them.
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You can spam but you can't hide
05 October 2010 - 07:25 AM |
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The comedian Jon Stewart, in one of his more inspired rants about duplicitous politicians, once asked in all seriousness "Don't they know we're taping this stuff?"
It's not too smart to tell bare-faced lies about what you said six months before when everything you said is a matter of verifiable public record.
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