Spamming et Scamming Via Comment & Contact Forms 
Posted by Udegbunam Chukwudi on May - 28 - 2010
It’s been over a year and 2 months since the launch of this blog and I guess it has somewhat of grown in popularity cos I now receive scam emails through my contact form and comment section as well.
Here are two of such scam emails. One from a so called Mr Wellity Osakwue and the other from the Boston Merchant Financial Services 
[Website Contact] Proposal for Partnership with Boston Merchant
Dear Mr. Chukwudi Emmanuel
This is Nader Moheb
Form Boston Merchant Financial Services
I am sending you this email based on our conversation via phone today, to introduce our company to you
We would like to do business with your company
Boston Merchant Financial offers instant access to financial instruments around the world including prices on stocks, sectors, indices, currencies, Commodities and interest rates. Whatever and wherever a customer wants to trade, our platforms provide all the tools he/she needs.
I will send you another email for our company profile.
We opened our office her in Cairo to handle Middle East & Africa office business, we have seven branches worldwide
And would like to find introducing brokers (IB’s) and Money Managers to work with Boston Merchant Financial
We also offer Clearing Services, White Label Partnership
For money managers we offer MAM (Multi Account Manager)
What i want to offer you is to have the platforms in your name of your Company’s name or to provide you with clearing services through API system.
So I would like to offer you our excellent platforms, we have excellent servers
Fast execution and we also provide Multi-terminal Platforms for money managers
Boston Merchant is regulated by more than one regulatory agency (FINRA, CFTC , NFA , FFMS and RolyReg)
Boston Merchant diversity and we also have hedging allowed and conditional orders.
Boston Merchant has three platforms (BMF PRO, MT4 , CURRENEX and Mobile Trading) , to satisfy individual and institutional clients.
Boston Merchant offers CFD products through BMF trading platforms including (Equities, Stock Indices, Currencies, Precious Metals and Commodities)
Our leverage vary according to the instruments up to 1:200 please see this link for Instruments, Exchanges & Fees
For more information please visit our website www.bmfn.com
If you are interested please reply this e-mail and send me your contact information, so that we could get along together on phone
Thank you for your time and consideration
Kind regards,
Nader Moheb
Marketing Specialist
Middle East & Africa Business
Boston Merchant Financial, Egypt
Liaison Office
WWW.BMFN.COM
Maadi Stars Towers, Building 1A
Cornish El Nil
Floor 27, Suite #2
Cairo, Egypt
Tel: +202-252-50885 Ext 529
Fax: +202-252-63577
Mob: +201-955-50112
Name: Nader Moheb
Email: nmoheb@bmfn.com
Phone: 0020195550112
Company: Boston Merchant Financial www.bmfn.com
Website: www.bmfn.com
Website Comment From Mr Wellity Osakwue
This is a Financial Service Announcement, we offer loan to all in need,
ranging from $5000 to $800,000.00 USD. Our interest rate is 3% and our
service and terms are dependable. any interested person should apply via
email: loaninvstmnt@aol.com
Name____________________
Country___________________
Address___________________
State____________________
City_____________________
Zip Code_____________________
Amount___________________
Duration ___________________
Phone Number___________________
Occupation_____________________
Thanks
For more contact me at
loaninvstmnt@aol.com
I await your prompt response as soon as possible
Regards,
Manager: Mr Wellity Osakwue,
By any chance, has any of you received these exact messages via email or your make money online blogs?
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They never give up, don’t they? I dedicated several posts to spammers. Some are real sophisticated, but others.. can’t believe they seriously think we’ll fall for it.
They probably think we MMO bloggers are so desperate about making our next dollar online that we’d fall for their stupid tricks
I don’t know. If I were a spammer, I think I’d rather manually do 10 links that will 99% work than send 10,000 which won’t stick at all and might get me in trouble.
Then again, I don’t know the spammer numbers. For all I know 0.5% works which would make it work… probably is the case.
Anyway, I’m always amused seeing people fall for (the sophisticated) spammer comments. When I go through old posts, I see 2-3 – now obvious – spammer comments that I fell for as well
I hope the spammers out there who are reading this, take your advice to heart. lol.
You fell for them but @ least you didn’t lose an valuable while they got @ you
Yeah, and that was when I was starting out. As you do this for a while it becomes increasingly easy to recognize a spam comment…
Hey I just noticed that your url wasn’t in my safe list for SEO Super Comments. Fixed it. Now your name links directly to your site
.
I’m off to bed. Hopefully
Good night.
What are the safe list for SEO Super Comments? Did previously my name link to another place? I didn’t even check…
I am not worried about SEO for my blog at all
Just traffic.
Have a good night!
The safe list for SEO Super Comments ensures that your name is linked directly to your site and not to a dynamically created page here on my blog then from there onwards to your own blog/site. The safe list ensures that you enjoy any possible PR associated with the post on which you commented
I guess I should say thank you
Never clicked on my own link.
No need for that
I’ve received the first one, I didn’t even finish readin the email before I deleted it.
I think lots of people must fall for it ottherwise they would give up and stop.
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LOL. Neither did I. I just scanned through it, saved it on my laptop and deleted it
Welcome to the club.
This kind of spam is commonplace in my inbox. I’ve received several that I’ve lost count. Like Udi pointed out, it is such a stupid idea as far as I’m concern. A blogger who knows his onion can’t fall for such fraud.
Often, the English are badly written, the letter format is rubbish and the information they request for are simply ridiculous. Anyone falling for such crap must be driven by greed.
I assume that many of such spammer buy harvested emails and simply use MASS emailing software to send out such. So they rarely know who is really getting such letter.
I just delete such emails once I notice the similarity to a previous SPAM. A pity one can’t close the contact form because of such losers.
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The ones that land in my email directly from their email accounts doesn’t really bother me. I’m just flabbergasted that they’ve started using my blog’s contact form to perpetrate their activities
This kind of mail that land in my gmail or yahoo do not border, but how did they get my private mail from my own domain and how can I stop this and another thing often get this one from some dating sites about meeting people, I know, I hate online dating so how did these folks get my email admin address, sometimes I get more than 20 mails saying the same thing in different ways!
And for scammers, I am usually very motivated when I sometimes visit the cafe (of course we have more than 90% scammers in our cafe than we normal people that just want to surf the net for information) their dedication baffles me, and only tells me one thing, keep at it and you will get there…therefore, if you are involved in y/y, why nit channel that energy and zeal to do something legit and profit guaranteed online!