Ah! More fan mail!

From: mtinc83@qwest.net
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 01:35:49 -0800
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Subject: err what time do I pick ya up?
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Hey,
What time and terminal?
Will

Hi Will! You're insane.

Let's look at the facts. I have no idea who you are. I have never, ever heard of you. What time and what terminal for what, exactly? Some secret liason with your mistress? Ooo, Will, I might have to tell Mommy on you.

Oh, what's that? This is some bizarre form of spam? You don't say? Let me see... three seconds of research... on usenet I discovered this is a new and bizarre form of spam. Posted to a spam abuse warning newsgroup, I found out that it is spam that other people are getting as of two days ago. Didn't take long to find its way to my email box!

I had a hunch about the name mtinc83... the mtinc had to mean something. A little more research on the almighty Google and I found this: "Microtime Computer Products and Services - builds custom computers for the retail market. http://www.mtinc.com". Ah. Thank you, Microtime, for your evil spam.

The trail gets even more complex, though. You ready for this? You goto mtinc.com and what do you get? "Welcome to Mastermia Corp." Guess what they are? A web design "service" with loose morals. Among their illustrious clients are an escort service (read: prostitution ring) and several other not really legal operations -- mostly money scams, it appears. Now, if I were to reply to that message, I would no doubt be verifying my email address to them, and inviting a deluge of spam that would rival that whole flood thing with Noah.

What can we do about Microtime/Mastermia? Well, they were kind enough to include both telephone numbers in English AND Spanish! How nice of them.

English: (305) 867-0028 Español (786) 286-8182 Fax. (305) 867-8654

Oh yeah. And the fax number. Now, I'm not saying you should find fax machines to setup to call them 800 times a day, nor am I saying that they might enjoy it if you faxed them a picture of your ass... Well... yes I am.

If you're in the mood to send them some good old fashioned snail mail, you can reach them at:

1019 Kane Concourse suite #203, Bay Harbour Islands, Florida, 33154

Be sure to tell them what you think of their "marketing tactics".

Did I mention they're using their network to spam you? Yeah. And if you do send them a loving bit of snail mail, please don't use a return address. You wouldn't want them to spam you postally as well as electronically.

By the way, they have other scams going, too. Try this one on for size: "Free one week trial of medical trasncription We provide timely, accurate cost-effective medical transcription. We have a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee. We offer a free no obligation trial. Please visit our signup form at http://www.mtinc.org/page6.html to avail our free trial offer." Yep. Like those fucking ads on TV all the time. I'm sure that's also a scam.

And if I'm wrong about where this spam came from, trace it yourselves, you lazy bastards! Here's some heads for you to follow:

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Oh look! mtinc83 is using Outlook. Say. Isn't Outlook that one email program that is highly suseptible to email viruses?

Oh, but this is all guesses and conjecture, after all. Why would you want to spam me, Will? Hmm?