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October 27, 2003

Scum Sucking Bottom Feeder

Oy. This is another Scum Sucking Bottom Feeder alert! I have just received three different (but very similiar) emails from a SSBF for various domains I look after (you can guess which domains). The spam appears to come from John Kennedy and there is a reply-to address of Listings as well. You can read the whole (edited) letter in the extended article if you care.

The point of this SSBF is that he (she or it) will attempt to bill you for this listing that they have stolen copied from a public directory service. You cean read about this scam here (where I found a reference via google) or better still here (via a reference on from the first site).

The site data presented is actually stolen derived from DMOZ which is FREE (as in beer).

From: John Kennedy
Subject: Please check deleted.com listing by Friday, October 31
Date: 26 October 2003 1:01:13 PM
Reply-To:
Return-Path:
Received: from top--sites.net ([202.9.152.26]) by mailhost.deleted.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h9Q2ZuWO003740 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:36:00 +1100 (EST)
Received: from topsitesmail (localhost) by top--sites.net (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <0.0369D2D7@top--sites.net>; Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:01:13 -0400
Message-Id: <200310260236.h9Q2ZuWO003740@mailhost.deleted.com>

Could you please be so kind as to check your deleted.com listing, if you don't mind, at:
http://top--sites.net/update.htm?d=deleted.com&v=2261&e=i

We can only list you if you click the update button by Friday (even if your listing is fine).

Your updated listing will also appear to the left of Yahoo, MSN, Google, Go, AOL, Netscape, Lycos, AltaVista, and Excite searches by AutoSearch users in Internet Explorer's Search window.

Thanks,

John Kennedy

P.S. Please also review our translations of your website into seven languages. And don't miss our reports on your website's popularity and your server's uptime.

You can unsubscribe at: http://top--sites.net/cancel.htm?d=deleted.com&v=2261&e=i

Posted by Ozguru at October 27, 2003 05:10 PM

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