Spamming arseholes

[ffutures]

Someone sent me this email

MYSPACE MUSIC

- New Artist -

RICH VIBES

Visit his Myspace Music profile and listen his music !!!

Clic on RICH VIBES link or www.myspace.com/kaarecords

oven11@hotmail.fr

Vous désirez développer vos ventes et créer un site Ecommerce. Découvrez Boutika Pro la référence du logiciel Ecommerce.
Plus d"infos sur www.boutik

Sounds innnocent enough, if stupid, but in fact all of the links are actually of the form

http://izitracking.izimailing.com/v3/redirv2.php?email=xxxx@xxxx.com&version=4&tracking=16108

where xxxx@xxxx.com is my email address.

God alone what this actually does, apart from showing that I'm someone stupid enough to click on links from spammers, but I suspect that linking to music on myspace is fairly low on the list of priorities.

The source appears to be "MYSPACE MUSIC" <oven11@hotmail.fr> - don't know how heavily this is forged because I'm seeing it via my webmail thingy which doesn't seem to be able to show the source of the actual messages, and have no intention of downloading it further. I suspect that it's as bogus as the message.

Comments

[saranjeuhal.livejournal.com]

I stuck in a fake e-mail address just to see, and it took me to the actual page. It's a bit of clever marketing because it's confirming the validity of an e-mail address and then taking you to the goods. Of course now that the e-mail address is known to be valid it can be sold, rented etc.

[feorag.livejournal.com]

So perhaps everyone has to stick in fake e-mail addresses, to totally bugger up their database.

[saranjeuhal.livejournal.com]

Not a bad idea. Gives them lots of true negatives and ends up jamming their site.

Of course it might just be a simple redirect to the site and the actual band are tracking the e-mail addresses. Still, there's no disclosure, and that's suspect.