Hello,

Recently I have been getting spam messages.
Now before you go yelling at me, "Dont give your information away!..etc" I didn't.

The address I am recieving them on, is completely confidential, and I have not given it to ANY websites. And only to about 10 people who I talk to regularyly.

My main concern is the company sending the emails. The messages are not usually related. Some are of stock news, research studies, etc. They all come from different email addresses, some of which match to the information in the mail, others do not even exist. The thing they all have in common, is that along with a message, an image, that includes the stock company "China YouTV Corp". My guess is to avoid filters.

Any information about this, or how to stop it would be appreciated greatly.

Here are some screenshots of the emails.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y9...
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y9...
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y9...

If at first you dont succeed,.....quit

I right clicked on the emails and viewed the source code. In it was,

#1
src="cid:part1.02010803.03060708@consumerapex.com"

#2
img alt="police station" src="cid:part1.00020507.09020606@silliker.com"
height="329" width="434">

#3
IMG alt="difficult" hspace=0
src="cid:001701c769cd$09490120$ed5cda5e@kjjgz"

#4
img alt="conversely" src="cid:part1.04000705.00080206@1up.com"
height="263" width="383">

The images that are included in the emails, have tags referencing to different URLs. The only two that work are www.consumerapex.com and www.1up.com. Consumerapex brings you to a page with a form that seems to be an unsubscription field. I almost entered my address in there, but thought to check the other emails, which dont come from the same site. I Googled "consumerapex" and got another site, www.audioprincipal.com. Which is an exact copy of www.consumerapex.com with the exception of what looks like someone did a Ctr+H and replaced the company name.

I don't trust the unsunscribe form for another reason. The source code for the page.

<form action="/index.php" method="post">

I could be wrong, but it doesnt seem right, to post the mailing list on the homepage.

I need to stop these emails
Please Help

If at first you dont succeed,.....quit

Can't really help but just wanted to add that you were spot-on to avoid any unsubscribe feature. This puts you on their list of definite valid email addresses and can only make matters worse. Email addresses get sold to other spammers using data base CD's too.

The facts remain that somehow someone has either got hold of your address, or the emails are coming via an infected machine, which is probably one of your contacts.

It is not at all unusual for the adresses to be bogus so filters rarely work.

Sorry, can't think of any certainty except changing your email address.

DerekW

I've been getting these emails lately as well. They seem to be increasing in frequency and volume because at first I would only have 1 or 2, but am now seeing upwards of 20 per day. If anyone has any information on how to stop or block these emails, I would appreciate it. The email address in question is a school address, so changing it is not an option.

There are various email filters around if you google for them (such as Mailwasher) but nothing will stop them completely. Outlook Express rules will work to some extent but to use these you have to become trickier than the spammers and HTML spam will still defeat you.

Unfortunately it will get worse as your email address is passed on. Have you raised this issue with the school? If they are prepared to change your address then one thing to never do is put your email in open text on any website.

Sorry I have no slick answer but trying to defeat spam became almost a hobby until I changed my email address. Mine increased to over 100 per day and now I get none.

DerekW

I started getting spam from these a$$wipes just after my birthday (in early March). I am almost positive that someone who sent me an "eCard" triggered the spam by giving my email address to the card sender. In yahoo mail (webmail) they go to a bulk folder - so they are being recognized as "different" from regular mail. Outlook lets them through as if they were a note from Mom.
I'll continue to watch this thread to see if anyone has a solution.

archie

help me

I too would love to see a solution. If there was one I would have thought it would have been common knowledge by now in all computer forums.

I've never found anything execpt filtering and the ultimate email address change. After that it's fine if you are very careful with your email address (and so are others).

DerekW

I understand that there is no easy solution to spam. But, does anyone have any information on this company "China YouTV Corp"?

"When life takes a s--- on you, it's time to wipe and move on." -ZK

Somebody might but I would just add that my firewall detects many attempted intrusions from China so (rightly or wrongly) I am generally sceptical. In fairness I get them from other places too.

DerekW