Look at this e-mail I got:
Hi,
We mailed you several times, but you didn’t bother to reply.
Please note that there is a spam post in your following pages mentioning our site.https://www.imao.us/index.php/2004/11/free-speech-is-for-winnersan-editorial-by-frank-j/
http://www.imao.us/cgi-bin/deaconman.cgi?entry_id=2322Please delete the entire comment, otherwise we will have to take legal steps against you.
Regards,
Webmaster, [link]
So I search my e-mails and find one other from them:
Hi,
We, at [link], contacted you many times regarding our link to our website, but got no reply from your end.
Please note that we found a spam posting in your following page where our site’s link has been given:
https://www.imao.us/index.php/2004/11/free-speech-is-for-winnersan-editorial-by-frank-j/
Some ‘Nick Jonson’ did the posting, please check and delete it at the earliest. Sometimes we surprise how you are continuing with such spam posts for somany days!
Please delete the post, please don’t provoke us to take any legal steps.
Awaiting for your earliest action.
Regards,
Webmaster, [link]
Wha?! Legal action against what? Some guy was spamming my comments – apparently on their behalf – and they’re going to sue me under… what statute? Sue me for having a link to them that I didn’t even write? What the hell is this?
I mean, I could delete it, but I demand to be asked nicely. It’s not like I like spam, but, as soon as it hits my website, it’s my spam, and I can do with it as I please.
[Frank J.: Long off topic rant that I can’t even tell you what it was about because it was so freaking long. I decided to remove before some site of wacky rants threatens me with legal action.]
One could call the Chicken Dance “a series of legal steps.”
Nigerian scammers get ever so creative.
Spiced Ham, um that was like long.
[Frank J.: Oy! Not again!]
I think Hawk has this one pegged.
So how do we like, send them MORE spam? This could be fun…for great justice!
I wonder if that company’s getting sued for spamming. Now that would be ironic – a spammer threatening legal action against those they spammed to avoid legal actions against themselves.
mortgagefit.com? I have a mortgagefit every month on the 15th when the bank debits my account.
mmmmmmmmmmm…”Spiced Ham” and “spam”…hlollll. That’s what IMAO needs…more pork and pork product related posts!
HELLO GOOD FREIND,
PLEASE SEEND ME YUR BNAK ACOUNT INFORMARTION BEFUR I TAAKE LEGALL ACCTION AGINST JOOOOOOOO!
YOUR FRIEND,
ALLAH
“Sometimes we surprise how you are continuing with such spam posts for somany days!”
If that is not a typo on Frank’s part; then yes, I think we have some kind of fraud attempt. Read below then look at the sentence I quoted again:
“You pay for watch now!”
“Me love you long time!”
“You break, you buy!”
“Super challenge loan contest!”
Look familiar?
Sorry, forgot to sign above post.
And here i was expecting a Beavis and Butthead type of post…about Cornholio! Damn…disappointment again!
Robert,
That’s one of IMAO’s core values: dissapointment
Frank – This looks like a typical “sleeper” scam. An individual randomly spams different blogs and then months or even years later threatens to sue in an attempt to extort money from the victim. Usually a good punch to the face gets them off of your back.
Or you could send Adnan Hajj over to photograph their company picnic. It’s fun either way.
Well Frank, you have mastered that core value. 🙂
Frank outta pay up. It’s not right that he can get away with this.
You mean get away with some random guy saying that they’ll sue if Frank doesn’t take some random osucre spam off the site? How would they even know about something like that? The only real way to deal with these guys is some good old-fashioned stabbity death.
You can have my Spam when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
It goes very well with ham, eggs, spam amd spam, by the way.
Hi, Frank
I am Sam, the admin of MortgageFit. We are a mortgage community working towards the development of mortgage industry.
Few months ago, someone posted our link on your website (he may be our competitor). There is a link of my website in couple of pages. I will be highly obliged if you can do me a small favor by removing those links.
Thanks for your kind attention and time.
Regards
Sam Palmisan
Administrator
MortgageFit