"Stop Spamming" Scam?

[Kimball Larsen]

Not sure what the scam actually is, but it would appear that your  
initial gut feeling is correct.

I went to google, looked up stormpay.com, and then asked for a list of  
sites that link to it.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=link:4- 
A3oeIbYZ8C:www.stormpay.com/

Mostly casinos and spam shops.

-- Kimball 


On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 02:20 PM, Barry Roberts wrote:

> I just got back from a week-long vacation, and I had to (quite rude)
> messages in my inbox from companies demanding that I stop spamming
> them.  One even said thay had signed me up on 500 spam lists.
>
> This was on my work e-mail address.  Not only have I never spammed,
> but I've certainly never done it from work.
>
> I assumed at first that perhaps these companies were so clueless that
> they didn't know what a forged header looked like.  But then I noticed
> that both messages linked to online payment companies.
>
> Are these companies (stormpay.com and evocash.com) actually hoping
> that I'll contact them about this, and end up being a customer?  Or
> are they just trying to drive traffic to their sites?  I don't get it.
> Does anybody know what the scam here is?
>
> Thanks,
> Barry Roberts
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