bbs.spamgourmet.com

by **crazycomputers** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:56 am

I am currently downloading 49 messages from my hidden address -- most of which are from "jqh1@gourmet.spamgourmet.com" and contain either nothing, or a lot of ASCII junk. I have not noticed any binary data, although Thunderbird may be preventing it from displaying.

I suspect that most of these were legitimate messages, but were since trashed by the sg machine. Can you please look into this?

by **josh** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 6:36 pm

can you forward an example to info?

by **crazycomputers** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 4:40 am

Sorry, I deleted them already. *Slaps forehead*

The problem seems to have fixed itself. If it happens again I will forward a few of them.

by **0spam** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:12 am

EDIT by SysKoll: @ replaced by other chars. Don't feed the address collection spambots.

This sg user is sending junk: gourmet(a)spamgourmet.com.
I got this from abel.flood( a)gourmet.spamgourmet.com. It's XML, but it's still junk:

<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document>
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10">
<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10">
<link rel=File-List
href="New%20BMW%20X5%20For%20Sale%20on%20Auction_files/filelist.xml">
<title>New BMW X5 For Sale on Auction, Bids Starting at ?1</title>
<o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
name="country-region"/>
<o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
name="City"/>
<o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
name="place"/>

<style>

</style>

</head>

<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:36.0pt'>

<div class=Section1>

Lowest Unique Bid Auctions<o:p></o:p>

<a href="http://www.owt4nowt.com/">Owt4Nowt.com</a><o:p></o:p>

Owt > pronoun N.
English; Anything<o:p></o:p>

Nowt > pronoun
& adverb N. English; Nothing<o:p></o:p>

Remaining true to the origins
of the words, this is a website that does, literally, offer you anything for
almost nothing. All products on sale are brand new, and cost almost nothing!<o:p></o:p>

The site sells apartments in
exotic locations, with the bids starting at just ?1.00. The same start point
for a BMW X5, the same once again for all sorts of luxury TV?s, cameras,
motorcycles and all manner of expensive goods.<o:p></o:p>

Bids Start at Only
?1.00<o:p></o:p>

Not a single item has a reserve
price, and they all sell for the Lowest Unique Bid. That means you could
purchase an apartment in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region><st1:place>Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region> or <st1:City><st1:place>Dubai</st1:place></st1:City>, at
just a few pounds.<o:p></o:p>

The launch of the site is a
significant development in the online auctions field. Why? Because the company
sells only brand new items, on auction, with no reserve price set. That in itself, might not be that special. But there is a twist.<o:p></o:p>

The auction winner is not the
person that bids the most on the auction, but the person that bids the Lowest
Unique Bid.<o:p></o:p>

Lowest Bid Wins<o:p></o:p>

The way that <a href="http://www.owt4nowt.com/">Owt4Nowt.com</a> has
structured the auction shakes up the way that people perceive the auction
process. Gone are the days when you had your budget and would bid until you
reached that budget, losing out along the way to that person who had more cash
available. This auction style levels the playing field and gives everyone and
equal chance at success.<o:p></o:p>

The concept is quite simple. If
the minimum bid is set at ?1.00, each bid must be higher than that. The winner
is the person that places a unique bid at the lowest value. If more than one
person places a bid at ?1.01, then the bid is no longer unique, and excluded
from the selection process. Only bids that have no other bids at that value, make it through to the final selection. The lowest of
those unique bids, is deemed to be the winner of the auction.<o:p></o:p>

You could end up winning the
auction and paying just ?3.67 for an apartment worth ?500,000.<o:p></o:p>

At last there is an auction
site that does not favour the rich!<o:p></o:p>

Go online today to <a href="http://www.oet4nowt.com/">www.ow4nowt.com</a> and
get bidding.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

</div>

</body>

</html>

Here are the headers (slightly edited):

From jqh1( a)gourmet.spamgourmet.com Fri Apr 8 13:19:57 2005
Return-Path: <jqh1(a )gourmet.spamgourmet.com>
X-Flags: 1001
Delivered-To: GMX delivery to my spamgourmet forwarding address
Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Apr 2005 13:19:56 -0000
Received: from gourmet.spamgourmet.com (EHLO gourmet.spamgourmet.com) [216.218.230.146]
by mx0.gmx.net (mx060) with SMTP; 08 Apr 2005 15:19:56 +0200
Received: from gourmet.spamgourmet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by gourmet.spamgourmet.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j38DKXuV007896
for <my spamgourmet forwarding address>; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 06:20:33 -0700
Received: (from jqh1@localhost)
by gourmet.spamgourmet.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j38DKXvk007895
for my spamgourmet forwarding address; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 06:20:33 -0700
Received: from 216.218.230.146 ([211.32.52.195])
by gourmet.spamgourmet.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j38DKTgx007862
for <<my spamgourmet address>>; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 06:20:31 -0700
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 06:20:29 -0700
X-Message-Info: 8hYqcSH6Wkqfps3lirTcM45RZO6zkgGtbSMO435
Received: from dns49uk2.net (60.105.245.120) by mto882-kl1.gaza.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824);
Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:11:39 -0400
Received: from ignmail.com (127.0.0.1) by dnskeromail.com
(SMTPD32-7.12 ) id AD820JS13; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:15:39 +0300
Subject: look... (sylvan: message 18 of 20)
From: Abel.Flood( a)gourmet.spamgourmet.com
To: <my spamgourmet address>
Message-Id: <724318729.TWN887@ureach.com>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="--33027778942578396305"
X-GMX-Antivirus: -1 (not scanned, may not use virus scanner)
X-GMX-Antispam: 1 (Sender is in blacklist: jqh1(a)gourmet.spamgourmet.com)
X-GMX-UID: quEkYplTeSE5Ltb9JHQhaXN2IGRvb8D9

by **SysKoll** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:00 pm

Well, this is a piece of spam sent on behalf of an "owt4nowt.com" auction site (shame on them). This "garbage" is actually an MS Word document exported to IE 4-compatible HTML (or what passes for HTML in Redmond).

From: Abel.Flood@gourmet.spamgourmet.com

So you received an HTML spam with a forged "from" field making it look like it comes for a spamgourmet user. Big deal. Not the fault of sg.

As for gourmet, it's the generic user that sends email to the hidden addresses of sg users.

Subject: look... (sylvan: message 18 of 20)

Conclusion: sg is doing its job and relaying email sent to one of your disposables. Just let your "sylvan" address reach its max count and the spam sent to it will be blocked.

by **SysKoll** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:11 pm

Also, I noticed this:

X-GMX-Antispam: 1 (Sender is in blacklist: jqh1@gourmet.spamgourmet.com)

It seems that you (or another GMX user) reported this email as spam to the GMX filter, which cluelessly took the actual, honest, return email address from sg and blacklisted it.

I am afraid it means that some mail forwarded to hidden addresses on gmx.net will be marked as spam.

by **Guest** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:19 am

Reporting like this should be a violation of the newly amended terms of service. Any erroneous reporting of spamgourmet to blacklisting services should be grounds for termination.

by **owt4nowt** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:49 pm

Hi

In response to this spam, we where confirmed that all addresses where opt in by the company we utilised , we have this in writing and will endevour to take action .

Glad i have found this group before detremental further opt in purchases.

Nowter

bbs.spamgourmet.com

sg is sending junk instead of messages

sg is sending junk instead of messages

it's not sg that's sending junk....

We where duped

Who is online