TheAuldGrump
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mythago said:It may not be Dark Profits that is sending the spam. LOTS of companies have had spammers rip off their names and send e-mail purporting to be from that company, asking for credit card and other information.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/darkprofits.asp
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/darkprofits.asp
And the DarkProfits site claims to have ticked off a spammer and that they are being Joe-jobbed. They also tell you not to reply to the message and to stop sending them hate mail. He has also sent out advertisements for drugs and child pornography claiming to be from their site on an earlier occassion. I have no idea what their real purpose is, but it may be a BBS for spammers, given the topic headings. I found out about them when I sent in a complaint about the drugs and child pornography mailing.
From the Dark Profits site Spam disclaimer:
Spam Disclaimer
Please be aware that we do NOT send Spam
We do not send Spam asking for credit card numbers or for personal financial information of any kind.
We did not charge your credit card as we do not even have a merchant account or sell anything. DarkProfits is a discussion forum and sells nothing.
If you were lead here from Spam it was sent to you by a disgruntled, banned member of our forum. This is what is known as as "Joe Job".
A Joe job is where an individual sends out SPAM to innocent parties with malicious content. In hopes that you the SPAM receiver will complain to our hosting company thinking WE are the ones who sent it.
Again for the record darkprofits.com and darkprofits.net DOES NOT SEND SPAM.
Any new topic Spams the lunatic sends, not covered above, be rest assured was NOT sent by or in part from DarkProfits.
Please complain to the TRUE Spammers account provider as you will see in each and every SPAM it is NOT our IP from which the SPAM was sent.
We thank our hosting company for seeing this Spam for what it is and not letting the Spammer achieve his goal.
The Auld Grump
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