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The Most Bizarre Spam Ever

Posted by Bryan

The following (edited) was in my office inbox, offering sick and twisted fare for every flavor of deviant:

You've just purchased set of Maibach brand earthenware on web site (deleted)
Easy to use, Maibach kitchenware is also famous for its modern look.
Our utensils, designed for easy and fast cooking of a variety of foods, will lower your energy consumption rate and save your time and money.
If you are looking for a reliable and trouble-free kitchen help, you have just found it.
All Maibach kitchenware is made of stainless steel - a proven chrome and nickel 18/10 alloy. Easy to use and famous for its modern look, Maibach kitchenware allows you to simultaneously cook several dishes on one burner.
A heat-absorbing base, built for optimal transmission of thermal energy from the burner to the cookware, is the most important feature of Maibach utensils. The exclusive Platinum model uses a triple heat-absorbing base, guaranteeing a still better protection of food from burning. Even and smooth heating of the utensil's base and sides prevents food from burning.

NEW!!!
We are glad to offer to our customers the most generous reward program:
every customer who spent with us more than USD 249.99 or Euro 199.99, automatically qualified for bonus. Choose your bonus:
1. Sony VHS cassette with 240 minutes of best underage p()rn you ever see. (NTSC and Secam both are available)
2. Bestselling manual "How to create plastic bomb in home" and "How to hijack a train or an aircraft, with color pictures and FAQ"

Here's a summary from Code Fish Spam Watch:

As we can se it's quite similar to the "You have ordered child porn" emails we wrote up in early Febuary. This one simply attempts to stir up outrage by using child porn and terrorism in order to get the contact points on the email in trouble. A little bit of checking revealed some interesting facts.

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This site is a surprisingly open site for "carders", otherwise known as people who trade stolen credit card details and other materials between themselves to be used for other insidous purposes. A quick browse throught site shows posts for people reporting "credit card dumps", requesting spamming services, advertising of open proxies and selling storage space for illegal web sites. We guess because of the websites location they don't have much to fear.

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This sites looks legitimate. It appears to be a Russian ISP and some digging does show that they host the DNS records for the above carder site. Wether they are aware of this is debatable.

ICQ# (deleted)

A quick bit of digging on the carder site reveals this ICQ number belongs to "DON" who apparently is the president of the site.

So what we appear to have here is a fake email designed to get this carder site and it's supporting network in trouble. We don't think this has been sent out by any vigilante group and feel that it's more likely that a rival carder gang is doing it in order to reduce competition. Our inboxes are simply victims of the crossfire in this turf war.

Good grief...this is one sad, sorry world we all share.