TheRegister has recently ran an article about a london outfit who have been spamming their ‘unbelievable secrets’ cd. The bulk spammers have just knocked a whole £10 off, who says you can’t get a bargain before christmas!
So here is the latest spam that is doing the rounds:
[4,600,000 VALIDATED UK email addresses - Verified in August 2004, ensuring a low failure rate and only used privately.
TO PURCHASE: Please send a Cheque/PO Payable to "Unbelievable Secrets" for £19.95 and send to:
Unit 716, 78 Marylebone High Street, London W1U 5AP
The CD will be sent by first class post and you will also receive FREE software to send 30,000+ emails per hour.
Note: This CD does not contain any personal information of email address]
There was also a prior article to this by El Reg with other references to a similar PO box. What we found interesting in this article is that a forwarding mailbox is being used for this spam still even after the recent increased UK laws (which have actually made a massive difference over the past few months for UK based spam in our opinion) A simple forwarding address is keeping this spammer in business.
So a quick usenet search again revealed this post where an angry user said:
“if I didn’t think the address was a postal box or similar I’d be sorely tempted to go up to 78 Marylebone High Street put a brick through their f##king window”
which reflected our thoughts exactly
Running the address, Unit 716, 78 Marylebone High Street through google returned quite a few more results with various spams to mailing lists and so forth. According to the various headers these were spammed from other countries, likely open relays or proxies (quite a few originated from comcast)
One post shows the guys at the same mailing address spamming a ‘UK hacker CD‘ for only £2.95 a few weeks earlier in late september.
Some more googling returns some other spam, with an actual domain being used this time ( https://www.whois.sc/unbelievablesecrets.net )
A quick whois on the domain returns the following information:
Registrant Contact:
unbelievable secrets
Bill Hendon ( bill@unbelievablesecrets.net ) [deliberately not obscured ]
+44.2087563423
Fax: none
Unit 716
78 Marylebone High Street
london, EN W1U 5AP
UK
The CD contains the usual collection of rubbish, including how to be a spy on the internet, a revenge kit, game cheats and even recipies resteraunts don’t want you to have, unbelievable!
Next time you recieve the spam there is a phone number above to ring your order through to ‘bill‘ , noone seems to be answering at present, probably busy mailing out CDs ready for christmas
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