Laposte.Net Spam

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  1. Superboy

    Superboy Most Likely, I'm Insane.

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    Over the past like month or so I have noticed an increase of spam registrations coming from the same email @Laposte.net

    Has anyone ever had spammers register with that email?
     
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  2. Big al

    Big al Regular Member

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    It seems to be from a scammer using a French cell phone company. It could be a good idea to ban his IP.
    If you can give me his/her IP I will do some further checking.
    A copy of one of the scam emails is below:

    From: [email protected]
    Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 21:20:39 +0200
    Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?My_Donation_=E2=82=AC4,000,000?=


    My Dear
    With warm hearts I offer my friendship, and my greetings to you in the name of our lord God, and I hope this letter meets youin good time, I propose with my free mind and as a person of integrity from God, I know that this message will appear as asurprise to you that we barely know but the grace of God directed me to you and I wish you read this message and be blessedin name of the Lord.
    I have a brain tumor, I suffer terribly at the moment. My doctor just informed me that my days are numbered because of myhealth therefore condemned to certain death. Currently, I have exhausted all my savings for my medical care.But I do have some funds for my charity project, these funds are deposited in a fixed deposit in a local bank here in Benin.purposed for charitable foundation
    My marital status is such that I'm single because I lost my Husband for over 9 years now and unfortunately we have not had achild together, which I am no one to leave my legacy . Therefore, to release my funds I would like to make a donation so thatthere is no stiff tax on my money.
    To this I would so graceful and in order to help the poor to give what amounts to said legacy worth Four million euros(€4,000,000.00) (Four Million Euro) to enable you to establish a charitable foundation in my memory so that the grace of Godbe with me until my last home so I can receive an honorable place with the Lord our father.I have no fear because before contacted you, i have for several nights prayed for the Lord God to give me the contact of atrusted person to whom I can entrust this matter and it is the result of why I am doing research that allowed me to contactyou through this site.
    Know that you can keep half of the money for yourself and the rest will be used to create a charitable foundation in mymemory and a federation in the fight against cancer and also build orphanages. I would have the following information: Yourname and first name, your exact address and your permanent telephone contact so I can forward them to my lawyer to appearthat you perform the procedure under deal.
    I count on your goodwill and especially on the proper use of these funds have something I do not doubt because I have greatconfidence in you that God may guide me toward you. My private E-mail: [email protected] your prompt reply, receive my cordial and fraternal greetings.
    Yours Sincerelymrs Sandra MathewMy Private email:[email protected]

    Une messagerie gratuite, garantie à vie et des services en plus, ça vous tente ?
    Je crée ma boîte mail www.laposte.net
     
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  3. Brandon

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    I've never noticed them.. we automatically delete most spam though so I never see a thing unless I check the logs.
     
  4. CM30

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    I haven't noticed any spam from them myself.
     
  5. Superboy

    Superboy Most Likely, I'm Insane.

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    I was going to say Brandon that might be because you use XF and I use IPB, but i see CM30 uses IPB as well, so ehh....*shrug*

    It is quite annoying but thankfully, my staff is usually on top of it
     
  6. Superboy

    Superboy Most Likely, I'm Insane.

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    The ips usually come from various different ips, never the same.
     
  7. Octer

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    Thanks for the info Micah. I'll ban that email domain from registrations.
     
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  8. joyce

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    @Micah how do I ban laposte.net from registrations exactly? They are quite active signing up at my site and I believe they got my email address and are using it. I changed the password last night but would like to ban the entire laposte.net from registering on my site. Any suggestions?
     
  9. pixelek

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    Most seemable scams::

    - php.net
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