[Shotimes] emailspam from SHO web sites

[Ian Fisher]

Many times the unsub link is to a dummy mailbox that quickly overflows.
All you are doing is confirming that the email they sent was sent to a
legit addresses and you might be spammed even more.

Ian


-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of James White
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 4:31 PM
To: dmall@mwonline.net; SHOtimes Mailing List; V8 SHO Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] emailspam from SHO web sites


My companies' website has been hit by this type of worm many times.
Because the mail addressed to jimw@morincorp.com is transferred to
greensho@crown.net , I also get a lot of spam.  From porn to credit
cards, to stainless steel coils.

The only real problem is that many of them don't even seem to have a
place to unsubcribe.

regards, Jim White - greensho@crown.net
Valparaiso, Indiana
'93  5 SPEED   278k few mods
'95  5 SPEED   241k lots of mods
"double clutch"  it's good for both you and your SHO

  ----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Mallinson" <dmall@mwonline.net>
To: "SHOtimes Mailing List" <shotimes@autox.team.net>; "V8 SHO Mailing
List" <v8sho@v8sho.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 12:30 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] emailspam from SHO web sites


> This week, there was a start of spam to people that had e-mail 
> addresses posted on the SHOclub.com web site and classifieds.  The 
> emails indicated that the SHO Registry had given them the e-mail 
> address.
>
> This was not true, but our site was in a way responsible. Please let 
> me explain as it has been explained to me by my son, and the web 
> master.
>
> The SHOregistry.com web site goes directly to SHOclub.com.
>
> SHO Club, as I have mentioned does NOT give out addresses, sell 
> address or information to anyone, nor do we list our membership in any

> way that can be a problem, but apparently an automated worm type 
> program is capable of going to web pages and extracting just the 
> e-mail addresses whenever it picks up the @ symbol indicating an 
> e-mail address.
>
> Thus a program hit SHORegistry.com and thus SHOclub.com and picked up 
> all the e-mail addressees in the classifieds, and maybe in the links 
> section.
>
> We have now solved this problem, at least for this type of spammer 
> software, I hope it is solved permanently.
>
> We have changed the way we list the e-mail addresses on the pages so 
> they can't be picked up by this type of software, but your potential 
> buyers/sellers will be able to contact you through what looks like a 
> "link".
>
> We are in the process of changing all the entries to this type of 
> format, but it takes time.  All NEW entries are done this way starting

> late this last week.
>
> Although this problem (additional spam to some of your
> e-mail inboxes) is not our direct responsibility and fault,
> I am sorry to in any way add to the junk that we all get. Filters on 
> e-mail programs help, but are not a cure-all.  I delete probably 30-40

> spam messages a day from my own account.
>
> Please let others that may have mentioned this to you on other lists, 
> (techsho is one that I didn't have the address to handy) that 
> SHOclub.com has solved the problem, at least for the future.  For the 
> e-mails that have been grabbed by this one outfit, the damage is done,

> but we will get all of them changed as soon as we can, and NEW 
> listings will be protected.
>
> SHOclub.com classifieds have become the most visited and successful 
> classifieds on the web for our cars and parts, and I appreciate the 
> support that you have given the club and our web site.  I was not 
> happy this happened, but I wasn't aware that programs did this.  Now I

> am smarter, and I thank my son for helping me solve the dilemma.
>
> Reply off-list if you have questions about this.
>
> Don Mallinson, President
> SHO Club
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