Note: The list of spammers is in the second section, after the About section.
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About This Post
Starting today, this post will be dedicated to all the sites, services and products that attempt to spam this forum. This post shall serve as a warning to all members and readers of this site, as well as anybody that may stumble across it due to a Google search. This post is a list of sites that probably should NOT be used, scammy/spammy services that should be AVOIDED, and items that probably should NOT be bought.
Legitimate companies do not need to spam forums, period!
Most spammers tend to be after little more than your money. And no, I don't mean by way of selling you whatever wares (or more often, warez) that they purport to be selling or offering. No! In many (most?! all?!) cases, these "companies" --
who are often nothing more than shady individuals -- are far more interested in the credit card or debit card details that you'll be providing to them.
Other times, it's merely stupidity and poor choice as a "marketing" method. In my opinion, that simply means these people have no idea how to run a business, so it's still really not a good excuse.
These various sites, businesses, and companies
can pose the following risks and dangers to customers:
- Steals your credit card information -- either to sell to other credit thieves, or to use themselves. In the cases of debit cards, they could drain your entire bank account!
- Steals your personal information, like your mailing address, to sell to mail spammers and identity thieves, or to use for their own identity theft operations.
- Steals your email address and sells it to other spammers.
- Steals your money, by way of not sending/emailing the goods, or of providing the promised services.
- Provides illegal and/or non-functioning (non-working) products or software.
- Provides dangerous fakes or knockoffs -- for example, products that could harm your computer (i.e., give you a computer virus, give you malware, turn over control of your computer to hackers and spammers, etc). Or worse, as a harm to your health! (i.e., vitamins, non-OTC drugs, etc)
- Does not support the item (software, hardware or other product), assuming they actually carry through with the transaction. In other words, bad tech support, bad phone support, no email support, etc. They have your money, they're done with you.
- Resells free software or information that you could have otherwise acquired for $0 cost, and without providing personal/financial information. In the case of software, many times a new GUI has been created, so that it looks unique when it really is not.
- Makes promises that are not kept, such as offering "professional" quality (a largely meaningless, overused and abused term), providing "unlimited" support, or even guaranteeing your "money back" if dissatisifed.
- Offers to sell you things they do not own, such as expiring domain names. The scammers will buy something before you can do so, since they know you're interested, and then offer to sell it at an extorted price.
Beyond all of this, realize that most of these spammers (and the various companies, business, services that they represent or purport to represent) are located in fairly lawless or semi-lawless parts of the world: China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Romania, Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia, Nigeria, etc. So don't expect to easily "file a complaint" or some such naive non-sense. Once you give spammers your personal and financial details, consider yourself screwed.
The List of Spammers
- mage-world.com - Vietnam - 8/2010
- ellamour.com - China - 11/2010
- swiftprosys.com - India - 11/2010
- oxfordshireweddingphotographers.com - India - 11/2010
- umacos.com - China - 11/2010
- shahpolymers.com - India - 11/2010
- gpsbuyer.co.uk - India - 11/2010
- encode-video.com - France - 12/2010
- sellmyfile.com - Bulgaria - 12/2010
- ipadtomactransfer.org - China - 2/2011
- dvdtoipodtouch.org - China - 2/2011
- dvdshop88.com - China - 3/2011
- starzmart.com - China - 4/2011
- earnfromphotos.com - USA (Dallas) - 4/2011
- easydvdburning.com - Philippines - 4/2011
- watch-ghost-whisperer-online.com - India - 4/2011
- watch-six-feet-under-online.com - India - 4/2011
- kenwoodplc.co.uk - Sri Lanka - 4/2011
- pandamimi.com - India - 5/2011
- iteba.com - Pakistan - 5/2011
- solprint.co.uk - Pakistan - 5/2011
- goldenwebdesign.com - Pakistan - 6/2011
- aclickahead.co.uk - Pakistan - 6/2011
- propadesign.co.uk - Pakistan - 6/2011
- 24loseweight.com - USA (Dallas) - 6/2011
- krishnakantsharma.com - China - 7/2011
- royal.net - Hungary - 7/2011
- za.com - Lebanon - 7/2011
- i4infomania.com - China - 7/2011
- uusher.com - China - 7/2011
- technihost.com - USA (Ohio) - 7/2011
- touchdown-marketing.com - China - 7/2011
- rsdis4s.com - China - 8/2011
- pacifichost.com - UK - 8/2011
- myfreecashmachine.com - USA (Nashville) - 8/2011
- seicn.com - USA (Georgia) - 8/2011
- softwarebbs.com - China - 9/2011
- hioxindia.com - India - 10/2011
- hostingcompanieslist.com - India - 10/2011 - Hiox India shill
- letsbuycoupons.in - India - 10/2011
- aiseesoft.com - South Korea - 11/2011
- bestcamerareview.us - Bangladesh - 11/2011
- intopicmedia.com - India - 11/2011
- bidcandy.com - USA (California) - 11/2011
- slogant.com - Ukraine - 11/2011
- griser.com - USA (Colorado) - 11/2011 - InTrust Domains scam
- teamglobalvision.com - USA (Colorado) - 11/2011 - InTrust Domains scam
- scenestorm.com - USA (Colorado) - 12/2011 - InTrust Domains scam
- goldmillion.com - USA (Colorado) - 12/2011 - InTrust Domains scam
- grupakrwi.com - USA (Colorado) - 12/2011 - InTrust Domains scam
- marscompanies.com - USA (Colorado) - 12/2011 - InTrust Domains scam
- epik.com - USA (Colorado) - 12/2011 - InTrust Domains scam
- dnidomainmarket.com - USA (Colorado) - 12/2011 - InTrust Domains scam
- intrustdomains - USA (Colorado) - 12/2011 - InTrust Domains scam
- intrustdomainsstore.com - USA (Colorado) - 12/2011 - InTrust Domains scam
- domainmatchmakers.com - USA (Colorado) - 12/2011 - InTrust Domains scam
- remosoftware.com - India - 12/2011
- chinadistributionbox.com - China - 12/2011
- pairdress.com - China - 12/2011
- ditla.com - China - 12/2011
- cheapsportjerseys4sale.com - China - 12/2011
- bestonlinecabinets.com - China - 12/2011
- everbuying.com - China - 12/2011
- rfsupplier.com - China - 12/2011
- booklet-printing.co.uk - China - 12/2011
- ahappydeal.com - China - 12/2011
- honeysbridal.com - China - 12/2011
- dvdburnerformac.net - China - 12/2011
- lansia.com - USA (Colorado) - 12/2011 - InTrust Domains scam
- acorninteriors.com - USA (Colorado) - 12/2011 - InTrust Domains scam
- newmagazinecity.com - USA (Colorado) - 12/2011 - InTrust Domains scam
- windowsfilerecovery.net - India - 12/2011
- remosoftware.com - India - 12/2011
- kvisoft.com - China - 12/2011
- hotdvdcollection.com - China - 12/2011
- slimmingpoint.com - Vietnam - 1/2012
- ronyasoft.com - Moldova - 1/2012
- dvdcopymac.net - China - 1/2012
- swftoaviconverter.net - China - 2/2012
- daviplastics.com - Vietnam - 2/2012
- buenojoe.com - Vietnam - 2/2012
- diyinchina.com - China - 2/2012
- bizcn.com - China - 2/2012
- xstudio.biz - China - 2/2012
- pnpphotography.com - India - 3/2012
- xdimax.com - Ukraine - 3/2012 - Grex device
- ritalinworld.com - USA - 4/2012
- scenicrimcoleyvillelodge.com - Philippines - 4/2012
- idealdvdcopy.com - USA (proxy) - 4/2012
- xdimax.com - Ukraine - 4/2012 - Grex device
- az-streamingserver.com - Egypt - 5/2012
- az-network.com - Egypt - 5/2012
- thetrendystyle.com - Pakistan - 5/2012
- inspiredbc.com - India - 5/2012
- happinesssale.com - India - 5/2012
- buytheprice.com - India - 5/2012
- rediff.com - India - 5/2012
- masticart.com - India - 5/2012
- silversunmedia.net - USA (New York) - 5/2012
Why Make A List?
The sad truth is that spam only exists because it works. Passively deleting spam, blocking IP ranges, and reporting spam to anti-spam groups like
www.StopForumSpam.com is simply not enough to make it go away. Spam will only stop if it ceases to function as an income stream for those that use it. The best way to do this is by suggesting potential buyers shop elsewhere!
Many people will, at very least, run a Google search when they are unsure on whether something is a good buy or a legitimate company, business or service, and hopefully they will find this post. However, if everybody deletes the spam, then Google has nothing to return for those searches!
When somebody searches Google for queries like...
- Is ___ a legitimate / illegitimate company?
- Is ___ a scam?
- Is ___ legal?
- Is ___ providing illegal software?
- Is ___ harmful?
- Does ___ steal credit card information?
- Identity theft?
- Does ___ offer good support? Offers no support?
- ___ does not answer the phone.
- ___ does not reply to emails.
- ___ took/stole my money.
- Is ___ good quality?
- Is ___ fraud? Shysters? Hucksters? Shills? Fakes?
- ___ sucks?
- ___ problems?
- ___ reviews?
... I want this post to be front and center, on page 1, so they can either see (1) The folly of their ways, or (2) A warning if they're doing pre-sales research! A similar post about
bootleg DVD sellers has saved many people on a sister entertainment site.
Disclaimer
This page is not saying that all businesses, services, vendors, individuals, etc -- as found on the list above -- are in any way stealing anything or otherwise engaging in illegal activities. Rather, this post works to do two things (1) List spammers that have put their unsolicited crap on our sites, and (2) List the potential dangers that come with dealing with unknown persons or organizations online whom commonly choose to solicit themselves via "black hat" marketing techniques.
Spammers who wish to be removed from this list will likely have their request ignored -- after all, you wanted your URL posted here, so wish granted! Removal is at my discretion, and mine alone. Note that we may also include non-automated spammy solicitations sent to us through email, including ridiculous takedown notices or threats.
I only wish I'd have thought of this several years ago. The list would probably be 100's of entries long by now!
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