> Below is a "spam" email coming from a company in
> Panama with an IP address (no domain name used)
> from a hosting company in the USA.
>
> They are offering Open Office 2009, which is the same
> product as Openoffice.org's product. They claim to have
> some added stuff for it, but you have to create an account
> with your email address to find out the truth to their claims.
> I find it INTERESTING that their "Support" option will not
> open a page. The "frame" that has the support info cannot
> be found by the browser.
>
> The disclaimer shown on the bottom of the page is colored text
> of a color-type that you barely see it and it takes a real effort to
> read it. Here is the disclaimer "colored" blue so you can read it.
> {The format has not been changed}
>
> Disclaimer: This website has no affiliation whatsoever with the
> owner of this software program and does not re-sell or license
> software. All software is freeware and/or shareware with the
> understanding that the user may need or want to pay for it later.
> Membership is for unlimited access to our site's resources. We
> provide an organized website with links to third party freeware and
> shareware software, technical support, tutorials and step by step
> guides.
>
>
>
>
> I wonder what "site's resources" could mean, since all of the support
> is either
> listed in a web page that cannot be found, or by links to other sites
> (assuming
> OOo's site).
>
> I myself have a site that offers a link to OpenOffice.org, but I do
> not call
> it by any other name and I specify that to get the software you must
> go
> to OOo's web site. I just offer a list of free software.
>
> I just think it is a bad thing to have a version of OpenOffice.org
> used in a spamming system/email.
>
> I called the Colostore company that is hosting the web pages
> and told him about it. The guy at the "Sales" phone option
> was the only one that did not go to an answering system, and
> he told me to forward the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> he would look into it.
>
> The web pages for the "store" looks like a big company,
> but the "tech support" option seems to go to one person only.
>
> The whole think has a bad smell to it. The Company that
> hosts the web site. The web site itself, and the Panama
> "daily-new-products.org company". Type in that domain
> and you only get a comment about unsubscribing their services.
> I had to use a false email address, instead of mine, with their
> PHP file link to get to the web site for the Open Office 2009
> offering.
>
> Long winded, but I wanted to say what is happening.
> OpenOffice.org is a great product, but using a version of the name
> in a spam is a very bad thing.
>
>
> ======================================
>
> The address when you click on their "home" option
>
> http://67.214.168.130/openoffice/index.asp
>
> IP address belongs to "Colostore".
> Colostore is a "Wholesale Datacenter Services" company.
>
> ======================================
>
> The Whois.net lookup for the IP Address
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> OrgName: Colostore.com
> OrgID: KCA-7
> Address: 1805 South Michigan Street
> City: South Bend
> StateProv: IN
> PostalCode: 46613
> Country: US
> ======================================================="The Spam
> Email"-----------------------------------Open Office Suite 2009Open,
...
> 2009.For More Information Visit our WebsiteThank You,David
> MatthewsOffice SolutionsIf you want to stop receiving mail, please go
> to:http://daily-new-products.org/or you may contact us at the
> following address:Plaza Neptuno, local #7Via ricardo J Alfaro, Tumba
> MuertoPanama CiudadRepublica de
> Panama=====================================================================
colostore has been seen inthe parses of several spams here; it's
obviously black hat from this end. I haven't seen them pushing OOo in
my personal spam but that doesn't mean anything other than I'm not on
that list. Haven't heard from them in awhile; had hoped they'd been
nuked - looks like not.
Twayne
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