August 13, 2007 by kim.milton.

On 8/10/07 I received the following email:

The link goes to a site with the following logo:

But the site address is at:

http://cb.adprofile.net/lrs/68/index.html?OID=6523&nopop=1&xid=0&CID=110368&SID=310996

Obviously this is an adverting campaign so I navigated to christianfamilyloans.com and found this (a search portal from information.com):

With a popup window for this (you’ll see this company again):

OK, so There is no ChristianFamilyLoans.com, there is a search portal and an Ad for Low Rate Source. So lets go back to the original email and start over. The email link opens this page:

The addresses listed on the Contact Us page are for christianfamilymorgage.com (this page loads a Server not found error)

The address listed on the About Us page is for lowratesource.com (this page loads the LowRateSource site)

I can go on but I think I have found the company. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with this company, I don’t have enough information to know for sure.

My Opinion:

If I were looking for a Christian business I would look elsewhere.

Something to think about:

This email and resulting link, have made reference or navigated to the following sites:

• shoppersavin.info (sending site)
• cb.adprofile.net (linked site)
• christianfamilyloans.com (linked site logo)
• christianfamilymorgage.com (email reference)
• lowratesource.com (email reference)

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August 13, 2007 by kim.milton.

I received the following email and seven others like it (except for the from email address) over the last six days:

The email account that received the spam is one from my website. I never register for anything with this email. The from address could be masked by the sender so I kept it private.

They claim to be: US NMA (US National Medical Association) at http://www.us-nma.com/.

• By typing the site address in a web browser, an error page loaded: Error 404 Not Found, The document you requested is not found.
• The link properties are: http://sethnw.cn/?EILJSMWFxVW3VcW19AWl9CW1tBXkEdV1pc
• When the link is active, the site that loads is: http://dolmisdes.cn/p/?&pid=1359 ( A Canadian Pharmacy)

While looking over the website I located the Contact page. The site has a form for reporting spam so I did. I’ll let you know if I hear back from the company.

Update:

The email shown about came in as I was writing this Blog entry so I went back and grabbed a screen capture for the most current spam. Funny thing happened when I clicked on the link, Sever not found for sethnw.cn. I think the Canadian Pharmacy shut down the Spammer. This is a good example of a company that uses an Affiliate program for advertising and an Affiliate that abuses the system.

Not everything online is as it seems!

Kim

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