Akismet works great

In the last week there has been a dramatic spike in the number of comment spam messages I've been getting. Yesterday I installed akismet, got a wordpress.com API key and in 24 hours it has stopped 300+ junk comments and let the one real one through -- incredibly simple and painless to install and start using.

govbenefits.gov used to cover phisher's hacking

I just got spam from a phisher allegedly from tax-returns@irs.gov saying I have a $571.94 tax refund that needs to be claimed in 12 days.

The URL had me fooled for a second -- it looks like a link to govbenefits.gov with a long
identifier. It turns out that the badguys are using a poorly secured redirect page (externalLink.jhtml) on govbenefits.gov to send people to porterfam.org. Of course the resulting page asks for SSN, credit card number, etc -- all the things needed for identity fraud.


And here is the email:

From: tax-returns@irs.gov <tax -returns@irs.gov>
Reply-To: no-reply-2005@66.34.46.216
To: my email
Date: Nov 26, 2005 12:16 PM
Subject: [IRS] Tax Refund


You are eligible to recieve a tax refund for $571.94.


To access the form for your tax return use the link below:


http://www.govbenefits.gov/govbenefits/externalLink.jhtml?url=h%74t%70:%2F%2F%77%77%77%2Eporterfam%2E%6F%72%67%2F2+005%2F%3F_cmd=/cgibin/2005/trefund/id=96596,00
(copy and paste this link in your browser address bar)


12 days left to apply for your refund. You may not receive your refund as quickly as you expected. A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example, a name and Social Security number listed on the tax return may not match the IRS records. You may have failed to electronically sign the return or applied after the deadline.


This email has been sent by the Internal Revenue Service, a bureau of the Department of the Treasury.

The bad guys are getting pretty tricky...

comment spammers topical news articles

I got two comment spam using text from one of the AP news feeds. Looks like they are trying to game google's blog search engine by hooking themselves to breaking news keywords.

Name: SPAM PRODUCT | E-mail: SPAMMER@yahoo.com | URI: http://SPAM PRODUCT.com/ | IP: 195.206.123.33


HOUSTON - Hurricane Rita roared toward the Texas and Louisiana coasts early Friday, a major Category 4 storm that spurred a traffic-snarled exodus toward higher ground and fears it could cripple the heart of the nation’s petrochemical industry.
SPAM PRODUCT href

Just got a call from a telemarketer...

And it was the first time in quite a while since the home phone was registered with the National Do Not Call Registry.

He was trying to drum up business for a Chiropractor
somewhere on D.W. Highway in town. The telemarketer said he was calling from New Rochelle, NY and caller ID caught his number as: 845-362-8732 and 'D,R G TELEMARKE'. He said my number must not be on the do not call list since he called me. I just checked with donotcall.gov and we've been on it since 6/29/2003.

I've submitted a complaint and we'll see what happens.

comment spam

The daily comment spam is getting worse and worse -- easily 100+ per day. It never makes it to the website because WordPress is setup so I need to approve all postings, but it is a PITA to weed
through the spam to find the occasionally real comments.

I've seen on Jeremy Zawodny's blog that in order to post, you need to type *his* first name in one of the forms. Not rocket science if a human is making the posting, but perhaps just difficult enough for the spammer's script to fail. The other nice thing is you can always change the question to something equally as trival. Say, "what the the color of the sky?" or "3141592 is my favorite number, what is my favorite number?"

Jeff Barr posted an entry on exactly how to do that in Wordpress. The only thing that was a little tricky was the change to wp-comments-post.php was on line 22 in my copy of the file. The difference because the file is a DOS format and emacs displayed it with ^M^M at the end of each line (essentially halving the
number of line Jeff saw.

The changes work for me...

sideloaders.com is spamming me

I just got the SPAM email below offering sell me Omega 4D MultiLoaders
(whatever those are).

Clearly they got my email from scrapping the web or somewhere because
they send to marc-at-tradeshow@nozell.com (from one of my blog
entries), marc-blog-feedback@nozell.com (used only here on my blog)
and marc-i-saw-your-weblog@nozell.com (same thing)

What also pisses me off is they included this graphic so I had to
download 130k of their junk -- three times!







An image sent via spam by sideloaders.com (26 Mar 2004)



REMEMBER: Don't do business with companies that use Unsolicited
Commerical Email (UCE) to market. It is an unethical marketing
technique. Thanks!

=====
Start of Junk email from shrewd@sideloaders.com
=====

    From shrewd@sideloaders.com Thu Mar 25 23:51:59 2004
    Return-path: <shrewd@sideloaders.com>
    Envelope-to: marc@localhost
    Received: from sideloaders.com ([68.20.209.65]) by aspworld.com with MailEn
able ESMTP; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:58:06 -0500
    From: "shrewd@sideloaders.com" <shrewd@sideloaders.com>
    To: "Marc-at-tradeshow" <marc-at-tradeshow@nozell.com>
    Subject: Invitation: MultiLoader debuts at Cleveland show
    Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:55:54 -0600
    X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
    Reply-To: "shrewd@sideloaders.com" <shrewd@sideloaders.com>
    Organization: BHS
    X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service
    Message-ID: <A3F2C67582AE41CCBF574EFD327C1.MAI@aspworld.com>
    
    Invitation: MultiLoader debuts at Cleveland show
    
    The first four-way truck with IC propulsion manufactured in North
    America by Omega Lift Manufacturing will make its debut during the NA
    2004 Material Handling Show in Cleveland, Ohio from March 29 to April
    1, 2004
    
    The show is held at the International Exhibition Center (I-X Service
    Center) on 6200 Riverside Drive. Please stop by at booth number 1241,
    where you and your customers can have a first look at the all wheel
    drive, all wheel steer MultiLoader.
    
    The Omega 4D MultiLoader series comes in capacities of 8,000, 10,000
    and 12,000 pounds with a Perkins diesel, or GM LPG engine. All mast
    types are available and load bed sizes from 30 to 60 inches are
    offered. Super Elastic tires are standard.
    
    Please, stop by and see us.
    Baumann Handling Systems, Inc.
    Manfred Kaufmann   
    Baumann Handling Systems, 1208 Badger Street, Yorkville, IL 60560: 800-927-
0385, www.sideloaders.com
    If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please reply to this emai
l with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.

=====
End of Junk email from shrewd@sideloaders.com
=====

Reply from goldlasso.com

I replied to the unsolicited email offer pointing to my blog and got a
quick reply at 17:18 from "Elie D. Ashery", the President & CEO,
with the warning at the end of the email:
=====
This email is considered original works and cannot be published in whole or
in part without the express written consent of Gold Lasso, Inc.
=====

So my interpretation of what he had to say.

-> Sends his sincere apologies for any inconvience and will
investigate how my email got on one of their marketing lists. I
appreciate that and am actually interested to see what he finds out.

-> Stated that Gold Lasso complies with the 'CANN SPAM Act
legislation' and respects out-opt. That too is nice to see.
Personally I'd prefer opt-in to these and other marketing mailing
lists.

-> Unfortunately it ends on a sour note when he warns me that he takes
'serious offense for insinuating' that they engage in unethical
business practices. He considers my statements libel will take
legal action if what I write prevents him from doing his business.

I've since clicked on the link in the original email to have my email
address removed and presume I will never receive email from their
marketing lists.

GoldLasso.com is spamming me

I just got the SPAM email below offering to market my restaurant.
Clearly they got my email from scrapping the web or somewhere because
I never use marc@nozell.com to register at websites.

REMEMBER: Don't do business with companies that use Unsolicited
Commerical Email (UCE) to market. It is an unethical marketing
technique. Thanks!

=====
Start of Junk email from Gold Lasso
=====

    Subject: New Restaurant Marketing
    X-Subscriberid: 500153
    X-Scheduleid: 923
    Reply-To: Rebecca Matthews <glrest-reply@eloop.goldlasso.com>
    To: marc@nozell.com
    From: Rebecca Matthews <glrest@eloop.goldlasso.com>
    
    Serve up some marketing that your customers
    will really remember!
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                           
    **************************************
    Email Marketing for Restaurants
    **************************************
    E-mail marketing is taking the restaurant industry by storm.
    You no longer have to spend a hefty fee on a cable TV spot or
    coupon booklets. With Gold Lasso?s Restaurant Marketing Program,
    you can identify your best customers, efficiently communicate
    with them, and reward their loyalty. You can even ask for referrals.
    All via e-mail!
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                           
    - No technology to buy
    - No computers or software to setup
    - No data to enter
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                           
    Click here for more info...
    http://eloop.goldlasso.com/redir.php?s=XXX&u=XXXXXX&f=1&url=
        http%3A%2F%2Fwww.goldlasso.com%2Fhtml%2Fservices_restaurant_form.html
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                           
    Gold Lasso is a full-service e-mail marketing firm that can help
    you get customers in the door and keep them coming back. You have
    real-time access to your Gold Lasso account via our Web site so you
    know immediately which promotions are working and which are not.
    Don?t wait! Contact us now to find out how we can help promote your
    restaurant via e-mail.
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                           
    Click here for more info...
    http://eloop.goldlasso.com/redir.php?s=XXX&u=XXXXXX&f=1&url=
        http%3A%2F%2Fwww.goldlasso.com%2Fhtml%2Fservices_restaurant_form.html

Spammers hijacking may domain name -- again

I was joe
jobbed again, but this time it looks like they are Russian -- lots
of bounced mail destined for .ru, .ua and .su domains.

Time to update my procmail filter...

Spammers 'hijacking' nozell.com domain

It looks like some spammer is using my domain name as for the return
address. Starting yesterday I started getting a bunch of bounced email
allegedly from addresses like this:

Here is a selection of the crap that they are sending out:

To: 

Subject: Re: fioricet, soma, buspar, prozac, and more prescribed
         online and shipped to your door jnk ngc vktv lsgqp uredu jb r
         nclh qovnbcdpzdvygvotdzljdt yqlis pvhq diijybv djkxitmhw xksh
         h

To: 

Subject: Fwd: get prescription meds to your door - no prior
         prescription needed rbthixw juminx wuzeh y m kywdghdyb tt xx
         dfzlztjajjzhz lyhnjufi omhb tsntghowomc gjm guuhleytw

To: 

Subject: Re: get prescribed viagra, diet pills and much more online!
         overnight shipping id pjvunfslev daqrksw qck lrrpqarma tlpkb
         ym q tu nk bgl lsc pmppwvlxiageo

To: 
Subject: Fwd: ever wanted real soma pills   rrvkmqjohenzzvowgseyb

To: 

Subject: Re: order status
         (%random_number%random_number%random_number%random_
         number%random_number%random_number) fph mbnyhhpbequue zaty
         zlhifzh ivb wdgfhbkgoyaw rjoslyduhrh xhrzphcp kbl
         aitqveaefytihoir lghshjqs 

The last one is interesting because it looks like the jerk messed up
his spamming software.

Scam Spam from secure.fethard.biz

I was amused by this scamming spam I got this email today.

Delivery-date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:55:01 -0400
From: Fethard-biz Manager 
Reply-To: Carroll_Karlotte@earthlink.net
To: mn@nozell.com
Subject: You credit card has been charged for $234.65

Important notice

We have just charged your credit card for money laundry service in
amount of $234.65 (because you are either child pornography webmaster
or deal with dirty money, which require us to layndry them and then
send to your checking account).

If you feel this transaction was made by our mistake, please press
"No".

If you confirm this transaction, please press "Yes" and fill in the
form below.

Enter your credit card number here: ____________________

Enter your credit card expiration date: ____________________

 Yes No


 Contacts:
 Phone: +5982 902 5627
 Fax: +5982 902 3114
 E-mail: support@fethard.biz
 ICQ: 156746629

If you were foolish enough to enter your
credit card number and expiration date, it would have been sent to
secure.fethard.biz. The good news is it looks like that site is off
the net.

A New Hampshire based company, contourdesign.com is spamming -- Remember don't buy from spammers

href="http://www.nozell.com/marc/blog/data/20030415-contourdesign-message-1.spa
m">Here
is some Unsolicted Commerical Email (UCE) that I received from href="mailto:pr@contourdesign.com">pr@contourdesign.com where they
are "seeking stories from statisfied users" of their stuff. They sent
the spam to GEN-NYS-admin@rootsweb.com which is the admin account for
a genealogy mailing list that I manage. I've never used that email
address for any purpose except to receive admin messages and certainly
would never use that to sign up at any website.

Kim Adams (href="mailto:pr@contourdesign.com">pr@contourdesign.com),
apparently the press contact for Contour.Design.com, sent the message
out. Since she was so nice to include her office number (603-893-4556
x 226) in the UCE, I gave her a call on the way home today. I
explained that I never requested email from them and that the email
address was never used for registering with a web site. She said that
some other people have complained today and that they purchase email
lists from 'a few places' and my 'address must have been on one of
them' and offered to remove it. I told her to remove it, but I was
very interested in knowing just who they are purchasing email lists
from since they appear not to be reputable. She didn't know if she
could get that information. I provided her with my personal email
address and cell number and asked for her to get back to me with the
info. I also told her that the spam would show up on my web log.

Here are some more information about the company from
http://www.contourdesig
n.com/contact_info.htm

Contour Design, Inc.
10 Industrial Drive
Windham, NH 03087 USA
Phone: 800-462-6678
International: +1-603-893-4556
Fax: 603-893-4558

Contour Design (Europe) Ltd.
Unit 3
Honeypot Business Centre, Parr Road
Stanmore, Middlesex, UK HA7 INL
Phone: +44-20-8731-1410
Fax: +44-20-8731-1419
email: europe@contourdesign.com

And email address contacts:

Customer Service
US
email: info@contourdesign.com
Europe
email: info@contourdesign.eu.com

Ordering Information
US
email: order@contourdesign.com
Europe
email: order@contourdesign.eu.coma>

Sales and Marketing
US
email: sales@contourdesign.com
Europe
email: sales@contourdesign.eu.coma>

Technical Support
US
email: support@contourdesign.com
Europe
email: support@contourdesign.eu.c
om

I eagerly await a reply from contourdesign.com about where they buy
those lists of address that are used to spam people.

I'll be emailing the addresses above with a pointer to this blog entry.

Recycled Spam

A person, unknown to me, by the name of "Lucas Ambe"
, sent this recycled spam to me and 44
unknown people. Interestingly most of those those other 44 folks are
from non-US domains --

To: (removed)@worldpath.net, (removed)@aq.org,
(removed)@debisschop.net, (removed)@lycos-inc.com,
(removed)@wless-rikerud.moneybin.net, (removed)@predawnia.org,
(removed)@free.fr, (removed)@udel.edu,
(removed)@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se, postmaster@futureware.at,
(removed)@survival.pnet.pl, (removed)@atosorigin.com,
(removed)@rmki.kfki.hu, (removed)@waldherr.org, (removed)@eink.com,
(removed)@wardr23.fsnet.co.uk, (removed)@uol.com.br,
(removed)@eng.uts.edu.au, (removed)@libero.it,
(removed)@suite3220.com, (removed)@yahoo.com,
(removed)@pluto.linux.it, (removed)@yahoo.com, (removed)@pe.net,
(removed)@pobox.com, (removed)@struyve.be, (removed)@wakkanet.fi,
(removed)@fzu.cz, (removed)@mac.com, (removed)@sh.cvut.cz,
(removed)@pama.cz, (removed)@kempler.net, (removed)@io.com,
(removed)@zeus.usm.edu.ec, marc@nozell.com,
(removed)@iro.umontreal.ca, (removed)@eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at,
(removed)@scdi.com, (removed)@ces.clemson.edu, (removed)@gmx.de,
(removed)@wspse.de, (removed)@wibblific.fsnet.co.uk,
(removed)@imsb.au.dk, (removed)@libero.it,
(removed)@users.sourceforge.net

[... many forwarded headers missing ...]

Subject: Re: if u delete this u hav no heart!

In a message dated 01/06/2003 9:30:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
LOVEABLE31011 writes:

Hello, My name is Krista Marie and I have anew born baby named Natalie. She
means the world to me, and just resently, the doctors have discovered that
my little Natalie has Brain Cancer. Unfortunatly my husband and I don't have
the money to pay for the bill. But my husband and I have worked out a deal
with AOL and they have agreed to give us 5cents to each person that recived
this e-mail. So please, forward this to everyone you know, and help out my
little Natalie and I.

-Krista Marie

This is the second christian (eagleforchrist) related spam I've gotten
recently. I hope this isn't a trend.

The first was another stranger, "Jim and Chris" ,
sending me this:

There will be a World Day of Prayer, on 3 March 2003 at 3:03 P.M.  A prayer bad
ly needed to heal this world and bring peace.
Pray you will be able to join everyone.

God Bless You

RKS Marketing & Web Design -- reputable marketing company or spamhaus?

Hmm, I just got some more Unsolicited Commerical Email (UCE) from middletownhealth.org again. Sheeh, and this is after I called and left a message for "Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. - Editor" by calling (845) 342-0000.

Again I gave them a call (~8pm EST), but they office was closed. I left polite voice mail that told them that spam/UCE was not a good way to advertise their company and asked to be removed from their list and for them to email me.

Then I decided to give RKS Marketing & Web Design (http://www.rksmarketing.com/) a call at (952) 417-7040 since they hold the copyright of the website design. The receiptionist forwarded
me to 'Rog' (sp?) who informed me that they create similar website for over 200 doctors offices and send out millions of pieces of mail on their behalf. I informed him that I live more than 500 miles away from both middletownhealth.org or northrocklandhealth.org. He said I must have signed up for their free newletter which I told him was not possible since I've never lived anywhere near there.

I have run a genealogy mailing list that has a New York State focus and have a number of relatives in the Orange County area, but none would have used my email address, even by accident. I asked that my email address be removed as well as my domain, nozell.com, be put on their banned email list. We'll see if I get more junk mail from them or not.

I've sent email to:

info@rksmarketing.com, href="mailto:info@middletownhealth.org">info@middletownhealth.org,
info@northrockland.org
pointing them to these webblog entries:

• 
  Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C. - The Spamming Doctor -- Don't do business with spammers
  
  



• href="http://www.nozell.com/cgi/blosxom/spam/2002/10/13#2002-10-13-another-spamming-doctor">
  Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. - Another Spamming Doctor -- Don't do business with spammers
  



• 
  RKS Marketing & Web Design -- reputable marketing company or spamhaus?
  

The funny thing is if you go a google.com search on either href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=northrocklandhealth">northrocklandhealth or href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=middletownhealth">middletownhealth
my weblog entry is the first hit!

I did some googling on 'href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=rksmarketing">rksmarketing'
and see that they use extremetracking.com to analyse their website hits. Take a look at the href="http://extremetracking.com/open;geo?tag=rstieg">geographic breakdown of hits and notice all the 1, 2, 3 page requests from all kinds of different countries. I wonder if people are looking at their page in response to some spam. One from Brunei, two hits from Saudi Arabia and Thailand, three from Indonesia.

verticalresponse.com reputable mailing list marketing company or spamhaus?

A few years ago I bought a new PC from a large computer manufacturer and dutifully registered with them using a web interface and provided them with a particular email address so I could track who they sold it to. I own my own domain name and have it setup so anything(at)nozell.com gets forwarded to my default address.

So I've gotten tired getting junk mail to this particular account -- there are over 150 messages in just the first 20 days of October. Most of the messages have a message about click here to reply to this
message and be removed from the mailing list. The most common one from the href="http://www.verticalresponse.com">verticalresponse.com list. Since a lot of spammers use this trick to find 'live' email addresses, I was hesitant to remove the address that way. Since thier website looked reasonable and provided a phone number I called up on Friday (17-Oct-2002) and asked the nice woman on the phone to remove the email address. I told her how I track who sold my email and she had no idea how my email make it from the large computer manufacturer to their mailing list but assured me that she would take off the list. I mentioned that some of the email didn't have their removal notice and said that they just send out the email from lists provided by their
customers and the customers should always have the notice.

Well, it is the weekend and I'm still getting spam to that account, albiet none with the verticalresponse.com message. I'm wondering if verticalresponse.com is just feeding me a line or what. The companies still spamming me are: thesuperspecialsales.com, tremendousbuys.com, summertimedeals.com, greatoffrs.com (yes with the funky spelling), c0olmail.com (with the l33t spelling), and everydayoffers.com.

Here is what the junk box holds for that address:

 144     Oct 19 reply-34872443- ( 117) Check It Out Nortans Software!
 145     Oct 19 Tremendous Buys ( 316) Know what your family does online
 146     Oct 19 ScreenSaver     ( 198) Free Haunted House Screen Saver
 147     Oct 19 GreatDeals      (  81) Important Pet Halloween News
 148     Oct 19 Cool Mail       ( 792) Friend, Government Secured Certificates That Pay You 16%, 18%, up to 50%!!
 149     Oct 19 EveryDayOffers  (  38) Double your Download Speed and get Free Software
 150     Oct 19 Cool Mail       ( 792) Friend, Government Secured Certificates That Pay You 16%, 18%, up to 50%!!
 151     Oct 20 Tremendous Buys ( 198) For the Lip Plumper: Full Pouty Lips - A s Seen On NBC Today Show
 152     Oct 20 Kate            ( 218) Order Confirmation
 153     Oct 20 Super Best Deal ( 790) Friend, Government Secured Certificates That Pay You 16%, 18%, up to 50%!!
 154     Oct 20 Cool Mail       (  92) Friend, Printer Cartridges - Save up to 80% - Free Shipping Offer
 155     Oct 20 Cool Mail       (  92) Friend, Printer Cartridges - Save up to  80% - Free Shipping Offer
 156     Oct 21 The Super Speci (  73) Friend, Prescriptions with Privacy

Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. - Another Spamming Doctor -- Don't do business with spammers

It seems that this is the week for Doctors Who Spam(tm)! As with
the spam from Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C, this looks like Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. has signed up with marketing company that uses Unsolicited Commercial Email/Unsolicited Bulk Email.

Friday afternoon I gave Jeffrey A. Spina's office a call and talked to the receptionist who told me the doctor was too busy and took down my name, email and phone number. No call back yet.

This spam from mail@MiddletownHealth.org
looks remarkably similar to the info@northrocklandhealth.org
spam. See
for yourself.

Did you get this spam too? If so give him a call (try collect) and politely explain why spamming is not a good way to drum up business. Here is the contact info from http://www.middletownhealth.org/

 
        Middletown Health Online
        54 Dolson Ave.
        Middletwon, NY 10940 (Yes, they misspelled the name of the town, Middletown)
        Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. - Editor
        E-Mail: info@MiddletownHealth.org
        Phone: (845) 342-0000
        Fax: (845) 342-0000

Please remember that the only reason people spam is because some small fraction of the recipients actually respond to the ad. Please don't do business with spammers. Thanks!

Here is the spam I received twice. Be aware that I live about 4 hours from where Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. practices and have never signed up for any sort of medical mailing list.

From mail@MiddletownHealth.org Fri Oct 11 16:01:29 2002
Return-path: <mail@MiddletownHealth.org>
Delivery-date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:01:29 -0400
To: marc@nozell.com
From: mail@MiddletownHealth.org
Reply-To: mail@MiddletownHealth.org
Subject: Middletown Health Online
Message-Id: <20021011200853.A67ADB5AD7@relay3.datapeer.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:08:53 -0400 (EDT)
Lines: 286

Middletown Health Online: All kinds of healthy "stuff" 

"Just keep banging until someone opens the door."

Middletown Health Online, as a free community service, 
broadcasts health information to many thousands 
of local residents to help improve quality of life 
and to provide assistance when having to make 
important healthcare decisions. 

We apologize if you received this e-mail in error. To unsubscribe 
simply click http://www.MiddletownHealth.org/subscribe.shtml

Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. - Editor
www.MiddletownHealth.org

    ==================

AOL USERS: LINKS MAY NOT BE "CLICK-ABLE" FOR YOU.
PLEASECOPY AND PASTE LINKS TO YOUR BROWSER WINDOW.

    ==================

Featuring:

1. Family Tips - Laughing away the pain
2. Light & Easy - Beating the blues with exercise
3. Just the facts - Eye Safety
4. Question-of-the-month - Doctors keeping you waiting?
5. Feature Article - Growing up with orthotics
6. Late Breaking Consumer & Natural Health News
7. If selling your home - It's all about curb appeal
8. Health Department Updates 
9. Community Calendar - Wazzup 'round town?

    ==================

1. Laughing has got to be good for you!
A new study indicates laughter may reduce pain as much as 40%. 
Can something that make you feel good stop you from feeling bad?
UCLA Medical Center researchers continue testing this in their 
pain labs. How about working there?

Apparently kids are asked to submerge their hands in ice water. 
Those watching "funny videos" where able to keep their 
hands submerged 40% longer. 

The notion that humor might produce healing enhancing changes 
in the body is gaining respect. Regardless, we can all laugh a little 
more, and that has to be good.

Excerpts reproduced with permission from 
Chiropractic Wellness & Fitness Magazine 
www.cwfmonline.org

Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C. - The Spamming Doctor -- Don't do business with spammers

Okay yesterday, I got two copies of the spam below -- one to my personal email address and an identical one to an old work email address.

So I visited their website and called the number listed there. The receptionist who answered as happy to take my call and yes this was Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C.'s office. She was surprised about the spam (technically Unsolicited Commerical Email/Unsolicited Bulk Email) but said the Doctor, Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C., 'does things like that sometimes'. I explained that the doctor's junk mail was in the same category as porn site ads, viagra or penis enlargers. I told her that it was not a polite advertising policy and like most of the people who got the email likely weren't even within 100 miles of Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C.'s office. I volunteered to talk to the doctor but Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C. was busy and left my phone number and email.

No reply.

So I'm going the public shaming route.

Did you get this spam too? If so give him a call (try collect) and politely explain why spamming is not a good way to drum up business. Here is the contact info from http://www.northrocklandhealth.org/doctorsoffice.shtml

Phone:  (845) 354-7621
Fax:    (845)354-7627
E-Mail: info@northrocklandhealth.org
Mail:    Pacesetter Park Rt. 202
         Pomona, NY 10970

Please remember that the only reason people spam is because some
small fraction of the recipients actually respond to the ad. Please
don't do business with spammers. Thanks!

I wonder if Chiropractic Wellness & Fitness Magazine
(www.cwfmonline.org), Foot Levelers, Inc. (www.footlevelors.com), and
www.ERA.com appreciate being mentioned in this spamming doctor's junk
mail?

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Here is the spam I received twice. Be aware that I live about 4 hours
from where Dr. Jay H. Schwartz practices and have never signed up for
any sort of medical mailing list.

From mail@northrocklandhealth.org Mon Oct 07 13:12:24 2002
Return-path: <mail@northrocklandhealth.org>
Envelope-to: marc@localhost
Delivery-date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:12:24 -0400
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Received: from [12.109.176.230] (helo=relay3.datapeer.com)
        by slammer.netnation.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1)
        id 17ybO3-000101-00
        for marc@nozell.com; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 10:09:43 -0700
Received: from localhost (unknown [66.111.253.14])
        by relay3.datapeer.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CE82B60E4
        for <marc@nozell.com>; Mon,  7 Oct 2002 13:25:33 -0400 (EDT)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
To: marc@nozell.com
From: mail@northrocklandhealth.org
Reply-To: mail@northrocklandhealth.org
Subject: North Rockland Health Online
Message-Id: <20021007172533.2CE82B60E4@relay3.datapeer.com>
Date: Mon,  7 Oct 2002 13:25:33 -0400 (EDT)

North Rockland Health Online: All kinds of healthy "stuff" 

"Just keep banging until someone opens the door."

North Rockland Health Online, as a free community service, 
broadcasts health information to many thousands 
of local residents to help improve quality of life 
and to provide assistance when having to make 
important healthcare decisions. 

We apologize if you received this e-mail in error. To unsubscribe 
simply click http://www.northrocklandhealth.org/subscribe.shtml

Jay H. Schwartz, D.C. - Editor
www.northrocklandhealth.org

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AOL USERS: LINKS MAY NOT BE "CLICK-ABLE" FOR YOU.
PLEASECOPY AND PASTE LINKS TO YOUR BROWSER WINDOW.

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Featuring:

1. Family Tips - Laughing away the pain
2. Light & Easy - Beating the blues with exercise
3. Just the facts - Eye Safety
4. Question-of-the-month - Doctors keeping you waiting?
5. Feature Article - Growing up with orthotics
6. Late Breaking Consumer & Natural Health News
7. If selling your home - It's all about curb appeal
8. Health Department Updates 
9. Community Calendar - Wazzup 'round town?

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1. Laughing has got to be good for you!
A new study indicates laughter may reduce pain as much as 40%. 
Can something that make you feel good stop you from feeling bad?
UCLA Medical Center researchers continue testing this in their 
pain labs. How about working there?

Apparently kids are asked to submerge their hands in ice water. 
Those watching "funny videos" where able to keep their 
hands submerged 40% longer. 

The notion that humor might produce healing enhancing changes 
in the body is gaining respect. Regardless, we can all laugh a little 
more, and that has to be good.

Excerpts reproduced with permission from 
Chiropractic Wellness & Fitness Magazine 
www.cwfmonline.org