Posted by Neredbojias on 10/14/07 00:35

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:52:33
GMT Michael Yardley scribed:

>> allcoolmusic.com is one of the biggest spam-disseminators in the
>> world. Supposedly located in the British Virgin Islands and often
>> employing one hypothetical "Jennifer Davis" as handle, it exists only
>> to spread malware and spam-promoted adware to unsuspecting POP email
>> users invariably receiving deceptive missives unsolicited. The
>> dubious technique of "opting out" merely suspends, not eliminates,
>> the plague of their con and probably provides excellent fodder for
>> unauthorized lists sold to others of like morality. This gang of
>> unethical profiteers also maintains additional domains in order to
>> faciliate its dirty work, among which are:
>>
>> allcoolmusic.com
>> musicmembermail.com
>> mymusicmail.com
>>
>> ...and probably others as well. Needless to say, you should block
>> these addresses or at least mark them as "spam" when receiving
>> anything from them.
>>
>> Again supposedly, the "physical address" of this heinous company is:
>>
>> iMP3Tunes
>> PO Box 1569 GT
>> George Town
>> Grand Cayman B.W.I.
>> Virgin Islands, British
>>
>> but note the PO Box! I also take account of the title "iMP3Tunes" in
>> my own filtering mechanisms.
>>
>> --
>> Neredbojias
>> Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.
>
> Your best bet is to report it to Spamhause or Sorbs. Also the
> abuse newgroups would be a better place to make your post. This
> newsgroup is mainly about html and web site's. The regualar's like
> many newsgroups do not like off topic post's which I think this is,
> intesting though it is.

Yes, you're right. I certainly don't advocate posting focused off-topic
subjects and rarely do it myself, but in this case I succombed to an
especially-aggravating incentive. If even one potential customer of that
spam-begetting operation reads the message and defers to his latent
wisdom, I've at least accomplished something beneficial.

--
Neredbojias
Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.

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