Spammers

Name them here.

I will delete accounts after investigation

http://ana4u.listal.com/

<4>Hello..(anabel_diof@yahoo.com)
My name is Miss Anabel ,i saw your profile today and became intrested in you. I will also like to know you more,and i want you to send an email to my email address so i can give you my picture for you to know more about me.Here is my email addres ( anabel_diof@yahoo.com) i beilieve we can move from here. I am waiting for your mail to my email address above.Remember the distance, colour or language does not matter, but love matters alot in life.
Thanks.
Anabel. D.
anabel_diof@yahoo.com

www.listal.com/groups/viewthread/714/ - Last post

nomannomy.listal.com/

jameswtme.listal.com/

Hello,

From viewing your profile, I strongly believe that you 're my main reason of visiting this site. I visited this site in the first place and I'm quite sure we can make a very good relationship that will make you feel complacent.So you can get the real me at jameswtme@yahoo.com or add me up write me and I'll tell you how I intend to do this, as well viewing my pix.

In brief, I'm a young Nigerian based in Nigeria at the moment. I incorporate discipline, honest, God fearing and hardworking. I don’t drink or smoke. I am a Christian and I attend church twice a week. I also like going on tour.

....

Maybe he is seriously in love with me, but I doubt it.

Ok I've deleted all these accounts but I'm wondering what is the ultimate purpose of these messages? On their own they are pretty innocent.

Who knows? Problem is the first message is just the bait that leads to requests for money, bank details, etc. I think others just do it to be annoying. ¬_¬

I think they're just checking to see who can be taregeted for more sophisticated scams. Rather than send out 1 million emails randomly, they'll have a database of a few thousand that passed the first test o' gullibility. :)

Wow.....
I don't really know what to say that will trip you which no body has not told you before...
I was capture by your beauty as i was searching whom to call my girl...
I know you really know how beautiful you look and how attractive you are...
If knowing you should be the last breath of air in my life i woun'tmind to give up..
I really admire you, adore you, appreciate you, ... what a wonderful and pretty woman are you..
Well i really can't say all i have for you now and here so i preffer you email me at raymond_scott02@hotmail.com... i think i have a lot to tell you over there
please iwait to hear from you and i will like you too give me your yahoo id or msn okay
thanks

http://raf.listal.com/

Same guy.
raf.listal.com/
Same personal message to me too. Guessing they'll hope that they'll get the (hot, fresh) email address from any response, then make money from selling 'live' addresses?

Or, possibly, that they're a person who is sexually excited by messages from women they don't know, telling them to **** off :) Is there such a thing as spamophilia?

Time for the Group spam!

georgephilip.listal.com/ for:

www.listal.com/groups/view/504
www.listal.com/groups/view/503
www.listal.com/groups/view/502

Look! It's noman again! www.listal.com/groups/view/506

jamesandy.listal.com/ for:

www.listal.com/groups/view/488
www.listal.com/groups/view/487
www.listal.com/groups/view/486

The account isn't spam, but they're making it:

www.listal.com/groups/view/510
www.listal.com/groups/view/511
www.listal.com/groups/view/512

And: www.listal.com/groups/view/177

Have fun! :P

Dawson - http://lordgate.listal.com/

G'Morning Sweetie, How are you doing today? It's a beautiful day here and i hope you had a good night too. Hey, lemme tell you little secret, i had a dream of this young, beautiful and gorgeous woman last night and guess what? this morning that lady turns to be YOU. Can you believe that? Oh... sorry i dd'nt introduce myself, i was in a hurry to email you. I am James by name, single and very single i mean, i live in London, UK. That dream was for real and when i got on LISTAL, you look just like the girl in my dream. I really wanna get to know you if you would'nt mind.
I am use to yahoo Chatting and if you would'nt mind, we can get to chat properly on there. Below is my yahoo id: dawson_artworks.
I am more pleased when i recieve a response of my email. so i will be looking forward to read from you.
Ty
James

Oops, I missed once that looks a little odd:

www.listal.com/groups/view/505

videodating.listal.com/ posted this www.listal.com/groups/viewthread/1756/

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Hello dear
how are you today i hope that every things is ok with you as is my pleassure to contact you after viewing your profile which really interest me in having communication with you if you will have the desire with me so that we can get to know each other better and see what happened in future.
i will be very happy if you can write me through my email for easiest communication and to know all about each other,here is my email [Link removed - login to see] i will be waiting to hear from you as i wish you all the best for your day.
yours new friend
ANABEL.
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I don't know if this is spam, but it is odd because there is no username or link to a profile:

ADMAIRE U AS A FRIEND

Posted : 2 hours, 39 minutes ago at June 22, 2007, 9:33 am
Hey i am Buba a 17 year old boy form The Gambia west africa....as i went through your profile i really admaire you as a friend....As you know wew are all from different cultures and historic backgrounds so that we can shere.....
I promisie if U accept my friend ship U will know more about Africa and The Gambia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hope to hear soooooon
Ur friend Buba

"Ok I've deleted all these accounts but I'm wondering what is the ultimate purpose of these messages? On their own they are pretty innocent"

Yes, but they're effectively 'bait', hoping to draw the unwitting into a scam in which they could lose an awful lot of money. Hence it's a fairly standard type of message, and sent out so indiscriminately (to ensure the law of averages works in their favour). I've followed one through once; I had a great laugh, and even manage to wring some money out of the scammer.

Seriously? Lucky.

I got a message from someone, but I'm not quite sure if it was a spammer or not. It's ok.

"Seriously? Lucky"

Oh yes. It was a fairly standard scam, and went like this:

The scammer sent an email, stating he had an account belonging to a deceased relative, which had been left to him, but he couldn't access it because he couldn't afford to pay the account fees. The account was to a value of a good few million dollars, but the fees were proportionately steep, totalling several thousand. He claimed not to be able to afford these fees, and was offering %40 of the account value if I could pay the account fees. The idea is that, although several thousand is a large sum, the share in the account would leave the person a multi-millionaire. But, if you don't let yourself be blinded by greed, and do as I did, you send a sympathetic message in return, saying that you have more than enough money, and that you're willing and able to help him out. However, to withdraw such a large sum from your own account, you also need to pay a fee (nothing extravagant; say, £50), and say that the money is ready to be withdrawn, if he is willing to pay the admin fee. In my case, he was.

adware12.listal.com/ for www.listal.com/groups/viewthread/1851/

It looks like a spammer

Got another one
spyware03.listal.com
www.listal.com/groups/viewthread/1854
www.listal.com/groups/viewthread/1855
www.listal.com/groups/viewthread/1856

This chap is obviously unaware of the irony inherent in his posts, what with his spamming to promote software (I assume, I haven't followed his links) to get rid of unwanted intrusions.

Spam is climbing up again.

spyware04.listal.com/
www.listal.com/groups/viewthread/1865/
www.listal.com/groups/viewthread/1864/
www.listal.com/groups/viewthread/1863/
babji708.listal.com/
www.listal.com/groups/viewthread/1860/
www.listal.com/groups/viewthread/1862/
www.listal.com/groups/viewthread/1861/

*Most* of the boards seem to be spam, of one sort or another...

There is no way I'm reporting all of these:

darthgoalie.listal.com/reviews

I don't think someone knows what counts as a review...

Ugh! That's even more annoying than the idiots who post the cover blurbs of books as 'reviews', or those who just post single lines like 'I really like this'; clearly just posting in bulk to get the points. That it matters to them that much is quite amusing, though.