The domains have been regisitered via http://www.enom.com suggest going there and complaining to them.
Stephen

PS think the facebook application could be the source as they get access to your e-mail address to send you notifications

keyscrambler?.. i hadnt heard of that
installed.. thanks

It’s better to be safe than sorry so I’d advised both of you to install anti-spyware products as well as keyscrambler (written about this in another article on main page).

A trojan wouldn’t cause this itself, but it could allow access to your computer and allow spyware to be installed. For this reason, I recommend installing a firewall as well such as Comodo firewall.

Keep everything up to date and you’ll have reasonable protection against these sorts of things in the future.

Dan

oddly they appeared in outlook express, but not on the hotmail mail page.
so how on earth did they get in outlook when they were never in my actual email account?

ive just deleted a trojan (ciadoor something)could that have anything to do with it?

(im also a facebook member)

Just found your blog through google. Whilst searching for… You guessed it. SPAM and “31 Thelma dr” I have had a hotmail account for nigh on 5 years. One of the old hotmail.com addresses. I have VERY carefully looked after it when on the net. And have, up until an hour ago, never received any spam on it!

So why now?

Have I suddenly thrown caution to the wind after 5 years of vigilance? Not flaming likely! The only explanation I can find is facebook. A mate convinced me to join months ago. I soon saw it was crap and didn’t use it. However recently I have had a few friend requests from people (If you don’t know what your doing when you join, facebook mailshots your msn’s contacts, saying so and so says “be my friend”) I have ignored them all.

So in conclsion. The only way Mr or Mrs “Thelma drive” has obtained my email address is from a hacked facebook account? Really seems like the only explanation to me. I would love to track this person/company down and find out how exactly they obtain these emails lists. Off a cyber criminal, on a seedy virtual streetcorner perhaps?

Whats in it for the spammer? Do they get paid by the click from companies they are promoting? Or if someone via his spam link buys something? If so these companies are equally culpable too!

Rant over. I feel slightly better, now where is that junk button on hotmail…..I’ve never had to use it before

The reference to my hosting company was because my hosting IP address has been blacklisted by Hotmail so me, as a legitimate sender, can’t get to the Hotmail inbox, but lots of junk from spammers can!

Yea you do realise its 99.9999999999999999999% of the time completely pointless to reply because they are “blackhole” or pipe addresses.

Meaning they send.. and thats about it if you send a emial back its just discarded instantly by the server(s)

Anyways, i decided to get a blog too XD and sorry ive nicked your template :p best one i could find i gonna have to look tommorrow

Cya Dan

Also looks like it’s a real place: http://www.casperwyoming.info/

I used to write the spammers back myself - tell them if I ever catch them I’ll break their legs with the keyboard I wore out the delete key on from their crud emails. I think that just tells them someone is checking this address, and to send more. Plus, with my luck, some spammer would eventually have me arrested for making threats.

Did you check the address on Google Maps? Not that I’d know from living in Cali, but I never even heard of Casper Wyoming.