A close look at Spammers….The United States National Medical Association

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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