Original Message -----
From: "Walinda Textile" lilewoo_md@yahoo.com.cn
To: my email
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 9:20 AM
Subject: Work with Us(Representative Needed)

Dear Sir/Madam,
It is my pleasure to write you in respect of our Company Wujiang
Wanlida Textile Co., Ltd.
Based No.6 The Third District Nanshan Road, Shengze, Wujiang City,
Jiangsu Province. China. We are experts in the sale of Textile
materials;
we export into the Canada/America and parts Europe.
We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium
of getting our funds from our costumers in these areas as well as
making payments through you to us.
Please if interested in transacting business in view helpings us, so
our clients could make payment to you being a representative for us we
will be very glad and compensations will be given and as well as other
benefits.
Subject to your satisfaction you will be given the opportunity to
negotiate your mode of which we will pay for your services as our
representative/agent in Canada, America, and Europe.
BELOW IS OUR COMPANY HEADQUARTER
Wujiang Wanlida Textile Co., Ltd.
If interested forward information below to us
1.FULL NAMES: 2.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
3.SEX: 4.AGE:
5.PHONE NUMBER: 6.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY):
7.OCCUPATION: 8.COMPANY NAME:
9.COMPANY ADDRESS: 10.NATIONALITY:
11.PRESENT COUNTRY: 12.STATE/PROVINCE:
13.Zip Code:

Reply to Company:lilewoo_md@yahoo.com.cn

Note that no form of payment will be requested upfront in this
endeavor.
On our receipt of the above details we shall forward to our
customer/clients to immediately contact you with the mode of payment.
Kindest Regards,
Mr.Lile Woo,
Company Directors. 

the reason I'm asking is because this came through my email account which I strictly use for this site. a friend of mine said the email account which he uses only here at rendo received an exact duplicate of the SPAM. 

like all of you I despise Spammers and would like to see something done about them!

where are the Centurians when you need them?

Wolfman, 
time to put them on special assignment to track down these spammers!!

Attached Link: http://www.419eater.com/

the bad news is that the country involved there is a "failed state", hence there is no point in informing the authorities there, and one may be subjected to more serious scams if one does try to contact the authorities there. the worse news is that this scam is effective on some recipients, and that's enuff to keep them playing the scam.

I get 20-50 a day like that, I have been an active member of 419eater in the past & done my bit to confuse & irritate the scammers. The Right Reverend Emollient may yet make a comeback with his New & Improved Church of the Holy Hobnob, at least he may when I have time to set it all up.

Uh huh, and I can pretty much guarantee you that the only "mode of payment" will turn out to be your bank account where you will have to give them not only your account number, but, the routing number as well...basically total access to your money.

Don't fall for it and just delete it.  It does happen and it's annoying, and frankly I'm amazed at the people that fall for these scams...I'm talking about supposedly high dollar, educated people.

I know the OP is not falling for this, I just get all preachy when I see paper thin scams, knowing that someone will actually fall for it.

Millions of these are forward to the bureau each day. While they are followed up on they take a back seat to Homeland security assignments. Do NOT and I mean DO NOT reply or give out your personal information or bank accounts. So many people are falling for this type of scam. It is best to delete from you box and forget about it. And you're right StevieG the number of well educated professional people of been the most victims of this scam. Damn shame too cause these folks have lost thousands!

I've received several similar letters.  One even claimed that they were from a bank in Africa contacting me because they wanted to swindle the bank out of a large sum since no heirs had come forth for one of their clients'  accounts and I was to pose as one and split the money with the bank assistant :)   Naturally they asked for my account number and routing number as StevieG1965  says, to deposit the sum for me.

I'm amazed how they think anyone would believe such a preposterous story!

I just replied in a similar thread here - it seems VERY odd that I should get this (2 so far today) to an email address I created specifially for use here at rendo for ebots etc.  It is NOT on any readme files in my store, nor is it given out to anyone.

I've had this very same mail shot today too!
I have a web site at work that checks out known scams and this one came up on there!

Attached Link: http://forum.scambaits.com/showthread.php?t=2316

If you would like a belly laugh then read how I was able to string along one of these scammers for weeks :))

It's not the scam/spam that's the issue for me.  It's the fact that it's coming in to an email address that is NOT public. I expect it on those that are public, but not this, nor the specific emails I created for using at DAZ, RDNA, Poser Pros etc.  My rendo email is the only one getting this particular scam mail.

I just got one as well. Though as usual mailwasher gave it a good slap and sent it to spam heaven.  

Originating-IP: [62.26.219.191] xps2.microserver.de. userid 1412

Does kinda seem like one of the poser sites is selling out email addresses.

Quote - I just got one as well. Though as usual mailwasher gave it a good slap and sent it to spam heaven.  

Originating-IP: [62.26.219.191] xps2.microserver.de. userid 1412

Does kinda seem like one of the poser sites is selling out email addresses.

well, if that's true then Rendo would be the culprit since they are the only sites that have the address.

I've gotten that spam that more than once its been going around the web for a while.

I don't read spam. I delete it. Unopened.

If it's something that I don't know or stupid it goes right into the bin.

I usually get them through CP because I have a private email that I only use for these accounts, nothing else.

the problem is my Norton antispam didn't even catch this. it was in the Inbox.

i get many of these, have for yrs to my hotmail . but, when i take the time to actually look at the address it was sent to, its not mine at hotmail. but something else at hotmail...lol
i sometimes think that when they get sent out to thousands of addys and some are no good they get re-directed to addys that are only simular.....JUST DELETE THEM AND IGNORE THEM.
mine today says a long lost family member in some far away country died and left a mill. if the lawer who sent it could just verify i'm related..............lol

netta

I'd gotten one the other day, now I've just gotten a second one.  It'd be either Rendo or DAZ that sold my address out.

Return-path: info_actworkhk@yahoo.com.hk
Envelope-to: xxx@xxx.net
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Message-ID: 1171681437.45d6709d54dcf@webmail.3web.com
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:03:57 -0700
From: "Hong Kong ArtWorks Import & Export Corporation (HAIEC)" info_actworkhk@yahoo.com.hk
Reply-to: info_actworkhk@yahoo.com.hk
Subject: Attn: JOB OFFER
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.1
X-Originating-IP: 86.62.5.42
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 dmn=5.2.125/2007-01-26

With Due Repect,

It is my pleasure to write you in respect of our organization. We are experts in the sale of Artworks and we export into Canada/America and some parts of Europe.We are searching for reliable representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our customers in the Canada/America/Europe as well as legally receiving cash and all forms of payment on our behalf from them as our Representative.

Please if interested in transacting business in view of helping us, so our clients could be making payment to you as our representative, we will be very glad. Compensations will be given and other benefits.

Contact us for more information, if this proposal is acceptable to you.

Please get back to us, so that remuneration can be worked out for your services as our representative in Canada/America/Europe as your location shall determine.

Note: there is no financial obligation required from you and this transaction is 100% risk free. If this proposal is accepted by you, A swift acknowledgement on the receipt of this mail will be appreciated, furnishing me with your:

FULL NAMES:........

ADDRESS:...........

ZIP CODE:..........

STATE/PROVINCE:....

PHONE/FAX .........

NUMBER:............

OCCUPATION:........

NATIONALITY: ......

AGE:...............

Forward details to: info_actworkhk@yahoo.com.hk

We anticipate your earliest response in this regard.

Thanks,

Mr. Hung Chan (PRESIDENT/CEO).

Hong Kong ArtWorks Import & Export Corporation (HAIEC)

Tel/Fax:852-3016-2338

Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Hong Kong ArtWorks Import & Export Corporation

(HAIEC).**** All Rights reserved

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pjz, that is the same as the one I got this evening! lol

Why would you risk opening up spam?

Hopefully, you're not opening any that have attachments.

i get stuff like that all the time from careerbuilder. Infact I have several insurace pushing companies bombing the heck out of my inbox b/c I "appear to meet some of the requirements" for a position with thier company. rolls eyes

Just got another

the name states:
Walinda Textile
email address: lilewoo_md@yahoo.com.cn

but the Return-path: 
atates the following:
web366@xps2.microserver.de

has everyone else checked the origin of the sender and is it the same one?

some addittional info:

X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER Improper use of control character (char 0D hex):
 From: Walinda Textile lilewoo_md@yahoo.com.cnrn

The only spam I get are from people wanting to sell be Viagra or enlarge my penis.
If they knew me better they wouldn't bother. Kidding.

For my purposes, email like this is spam

I get hundreds of those and get them all screened out by Gmail

This may sound cruel, but many of the people who get scammed by these schemes deserve to get scammed. I speak from experience dealing with idiots who become angry when warned about the scam they are about to be taken by. What I mean is that they become angry at the person(s) warning them, not at the scammer(s).

wow, i just got one today...same e-mail except this one's based in hong kong

Are you guys telling me you actually READ spam?

I let MailWasher handle it and never ever read any of it. So I can't say if I've got exactely this one. Probably, but I get several hundred spam mails every day (on various accounts) so I just delete it en bloc.

Occasionally that means that a legitimate email gets deleted, but... if people would just use proper subject lines... I do LOOK at the emails MailWasher marks as spam, but a subject saying "Hi there" WILL get deleted unless I specifically know the sender. Then I'll look at it, still in MW and decide if I want it on my computer or not...

This stuff always goes in my Spam folder but I will occasionally look at some on my pc at work just to see if my filter has dumped something it shouldn't, which it has before, this one I looked at because I am desperate for a new job but not that desperate!!  [LOL].

Ha ! Glad to know that I am not the only one.I don't care about this "buisness"-crap anyway,but it is pretty anoying if you billions of spam-mails every day.

Is anyone taking the time to read?  It's not the fact that people are getting spam - I get up to 1000 a day

It's the fact that they are coming to email addresses that are created exclusively for use with Renderosity website.  

If it was to one of my other addresses that gets them I woudn't even notice them because MailWasher gets rid but it is the fact that I, and several other people have created an email account that is ONLY used on this site for ebots, newsletters etc - it is NOT on any readme files that could be harvested, it is NOT given out ot anyone, and is NOT ued on any other site.  (would be silly to us a 'renderosity@' email at DAZ)

So, as in the other thread on this topic, the only way we can see that the address could be obtained by these spammers is hacking or selling of email addresses.

Edited to say that it is not hotmail/yahoo address - it is one I created from on of my own domain names

I'll only read them if I'm planning to bait the sender, see PhilC's reply, it can be a lot of fun.

"Are you guys telling me you actually READ spam?"

Nope. One joy of Mailwasher is the preview window :)

I'd seen this thread eariler in the day - and then got some.

Yea spammers can send email to nearly every account in an entire domain - so yep I could understand that if it was say yahoo or hottmail, or even to rosity accounts.

But the same mail across mutilple domains, one like Gills. I got one sent to a secure account that one of my employers uses. That address is only used normally on a staff intranet
and for the odd external purchase. Which all says someone in poserdom is selling a mailing list. 

If a store is selling our addresses then they should be honest and say so.  Thats practice for many companys.  Take SKY the uk statellite company - when you buy from them they openly admit they'll sell your details to 3rd warranty insurers. 

BTW - don't bother with those policys - they are useless :(

I would also point out that I never sent mail out on that account, I only received.

If I got an email via the rendo send mail option, say from a vendor, if it needed a reply then I sent that out using a different email address.

This morning, I created a new address for use here on a different domain.  I'm now getting the ebots come in to that new address but still getting spam to the old one.

I blame Globalization; this is going to put hundreds of Nigerians out of work...does everything have to be done in China!...;)</tongue in cheek>

WAF!!!,Now it has begun,the next mail.Yes ,I have the time to read.I opened the source-text.Why I have got the time?Because I never got Spam-mails.Why?Because I never give my e-mail address to a side I don't trust.I only trusted a few sides.Mainly poser-related.Especially Renderosity.So how did anybody get to know my e-mail address?Some People here told they only used their e-mail address for Rendo.So either Rendo has been hacked or there is a black sheep among your crew.

Seeing as you guys are reading them, they are succeeding. How do you know if worms arent attached to them? Just by opening it? Poser sites are selling your emails. Thats a given. Any site these days sells off their list for the money.**

**

No attachments.I just read the source text.Right Mouse click=>Properties=>Sourcetext.

"How do you know if worms arent attached to them?" 
Mailwasher shows the size and only previewing doesn't open attachments. 

"Any site these days sells off their list for the money."
I know for fact the stores I sell at including Content Paradise, Vanishing Point, Dark Anvil, Netherworks and Cornucopia doesn't. 

Some of these stores will not even provide email addresses to vendors for support issues as their privacy policy is that professional strict. I'd assume most other Poser stores would be the same as well.
 
If you found XYZ's poser model store, despite a privacy policy, was selling your email address to a list broker would you buy from then again ?   

Quote -  
If you found XYZ's poser model store, despite a privacy policy, was selling your email address to a list broker would you buy from then again ?   

Definitely not.

Keep in mind that a list of valid member e-mails is one of a website's most valuable assets.
 
But, if a site was selling the member's e-mail addresses, would they tell anyone? Would they even tell other people in the company? What would the marketing department think if their anti-spam advertisements were becoming worthless because someone in the sales department was selling e-mails to the very people that the marketing people told customers they were being protected from?
 
So, you could ask Yahoo and Hotmail (for example) if they sell their addresses and they'll always tell you "no"... even though the person who responds may not even know that the sales department is doing.
However, it's tough (and wrong) to accuse a site of selling e-mail addresses without definite proof.

gillbrooks,

I received that e-mail.  2-17-07   12:17am and 12:43am

Maybe the site itself is not guilty.There may be only one black sheep among the site-crew selling e-mails.

Considering how frisky and eager the site admin team was to personally propagandize certain recent policy changes, complete silence now is a bit out of character.

I seriously doubt rosity would sell our email addresses. 
Clint, Debs and the team are all honourable  people after all.

Quote - Maybe the site itself is not guilty.There may be only one black sheep among the site-crew selling e-mails.

Renderosity needs to investigate this matter seriously and if it is discovered that one of their staff is guilty of this then they should take the appropriate action against the person(s) involved.

I am going to forego making any subsequent purchases until this matter is completely cleared up.

This issue has already been discussed in the community centre. Please keep the discussion in one place.

No, Renderosity is most certainly not selling or sharing our mailing list to any third party.