SPAM from The Password Exchange Forum

[thepokerkeep]

Today I received this email:

Subject: FW: Free Poker - Real Prizes ? " SPECIAL INVITE "From:"Jay" <xxjaylea@mymail.com>Date:Sun, Nov 15, 2009 5:31 amTo:"admin" <xxxxadmin@thepokerkeep.comxx>

Nice site! Im doing good ,,,
thanks for the invite


-----Original Message-----
From: The Password Exchange
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2009 2:27 PM
To: Jay
Subject: FW: Free Poker - Real Prizes ? " SPECIAL INVITE "



Join Us ! - freeroll Poker Passwords Posted Daily

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Enjoy & Dont Forget To Bookmark Us Today.

xxhttp://pokerfreeroll-passwords.com/index.phpxx

FEEL FREE TO SEND THIS INFO ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS =)

My first reaction was that this person had me confused with someone else but the fact he appeared to be replying to me about a forum I have never heard of concerned me. So I thought a reply was in order, asking for more information. I sent the following reply to xxjaylea@mymail.com:

Hello Jay


Do I know you? Why are you contacting me?


From the look of the email below, it appears that you are replying to an email I sent. Is that what you are doing? Or, is this some form of email spam?


I'm confused as to how you are replying to my site/email. I am not involved in The Password Exchange in any way. In fact - prior to receiving your email, I had never even heard of them. I would appreciate it if you would forward me a copy of the original email (the one you are replying to below) along with the complete header info from that email.


I am concerned and upset that my site appears to be connected to a forum that exchanges passwords. It's a practice that I do not agree with or engage in.


I would appreciate a quick response from you before I make this email public on the forums.



Terry Bolger
http://ThePokerKeep.com

No surprise - the email bounced!

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at smtpoutwbe10.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<xxjaylea@mymail.com>:
69.13.196.34 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 511 sorry, no mailbox here by that name (#5.1.1 - chkuser)
Giving up on 69.13.196.34.

The only conclusion I can draw from this is that The Password Exchange (xxhttp://pokerfreeroll-passwords.com/index.phpxx) is behind this spam and needs to be called out.

I would love to hear an explanation from the owner of pokerfreeroll-passwords.com

Note - xx added to all links to avoid giving link juice to the spammer.

[Chips]

I got the same mail three times, once yesterday and twice today.

[pompeyrayuk]

Four of them I have had and I am 99% certain that it is the same guys who had poker freerolls passwords closed a couple of times then the blog closed then the facebook group closed.

[GFPC]

i got the same emails.

Just deleted it!!!

[LuckyBettors - Jamie]

We got this to all email address OGR ones and Gamble Stop ones.

My guess they are getting the emails via CAP or Here somehow.

As i dont use these email addresses there coming to anywhere else.