How To Catch a Spammer

August 23rd, 2008 | Author: Debbie Mahler

Microsoft Award Promotion Winner!

I received 966 of my Microsoft Award Promotion winning e-mail this morning! And I won it in their Microsoft New year Bonaza EMAIL DRAW! (Their spelling not mine!)

I guess they really wanted me to make sure I know I won!

And in case I didn’t understand what a winner was, they made sure I knew I was also a wenner! (I guess that’s better than being a whinner or a weiner!)

Here’s what it said:

You have won £1,000,000.00 GBP in the recent email drawof the Microsoft New year Bonaza EMAIL DRAW. you are advise to contact your claims department with the below informations.Full Name;Home Address; Country of residence; occupation: Contact Phone Number;Contact Person: Mr. Lewis Desmond E-mail:gaminghouse125@hotmail.com.

See how I traced the sender back to a poor schmuck running a botnet in Canada. View the details here: http://mice.org/microsoft-award-promotion.html

If anyone knows TomTS in Barrie, Ontario Canada, tell him to clean up his computer!

Point him to my post about the free botnet removal tool from Trend Micro!