Hi again readers!
It's now been confirmed - We have now found that Matt, depsite what he told the readers, did not only use that e-mail address to sign up to the services.
Our services provided are guestbooks for homepages, Matt put on on his. In a message on that guestbook:
http://pub.alxnet.com/guestbook?id=2249224
He has posted a message with this address in, and that's where a spam harvest bot found it. So, Alxnet has not given out the address, he did himself.
Matt's false allegations has as well put us in a bad spot.
Some kind of one-man warrior who in thinking he would do justice has after reading this compromised one of our testings server (let's face it, the machine has been running since '98 w/o harm and it was hacked today, we draw our conclusions)..
Fortunatly, this is not a mission critical machine, but on the other hand - it's made things hard for thousands of people to send Christmas Wishes.
If you who read this feel hit by this as being the one who did this, call us or e-mail us telling us you're sorry we will accept this in the spirit of christmas.
LESSON LEARNT:
Do not judge people without learning the whole truth. Ask both sides for their view on the story or it will make you blind...
With best regards and Merry Christmas!
Alx Grepe
CEO & Founder
Alxnet.com
E-mail: alexander.grepe@abc.se
Phone: +46-708627783
Read our answer to the allegations further down as a reply to the main posting.
Regards,
Alx Grepe
Alxnet.com
E-mail: alexander.grepe@abc.se
Phone: +46-708627783
Read our comment at the bottom of the main thread. Again, we did not send out that spam.
Alx Grepe
Alxnet.com
E-mail: alexander.grepe@abc.se
Phone: +46-708627783
My name is Alx Grepe and I am the founder and owner of <B>Alxnet AB</B>,
owners of alxnet.com / alxbook.com.
I have come to know of this message thread thru a reader who e-mailed me for
an advice on this matter.
<B>To start off:</B> Alxnet.com does NOT promote spam. We did NOT send the
message out. We collect e-mails to use for login purposes at our services as
well as populating our news letters.
We also offer advertisers to send e-mail advertising to our users on a
<B>100% double opt-in</B> basis where the advertiser does not actually get
the e-mail but rather send it out thru our list broker, PostmasterDirect.com
We do NOT send out mailings to our users on our news letters without their
possibility to remove themselves at any time.
<B>Second:</B> We will investigate how this message was sent out to him, and
as the sender seems to be using RoadRunner services in NYC, I bet it's not
too hard to track him/them down. I've had problems with spammers using
RR.com myself before. Whoever did this has hurt our business name and will
not get a happy new year...
We do not yet know how he managed to harvest this e-mail address, but we'll continue looking at it. All we know is that it did not originate from us.
<B>Third, is Matt attempting FRAUD?</B>:
As I wrote a response to Matt I noticed something about his e-mail address
that made me recall that I did in fact remember the domain it was sent from,
mail.win.org).
I looked up my e-mail box, as I save all outgoing e-mail, I found a letter
sent from him to me that I had sent to Paypal.com:s abuse department.
The mail was sent to me from Matt thru Paypal to the address at which I
signed up for the alxbook.com domain in the whois registry:
alexander.grepe@ABC.SE
I never see mail go to that address with the abc.se in capital except when I
recieve spam harvested from Network Solution. (they seemed to upper-case
domain names in e-mails for some reason)
What's worse, the letter Suject read:
"Bill for Email Processing"
the body read, in short:
Money Request details
Ammount: $50
Event: Bill for e-mail processing
Event Date: December 13, 2001
Note:
Your company has been found in violation of your privacy agreement [...] and in
violation of Missouri Senate Bill 763.
[...]
Thank you for doing business with us, Unpaid accounts will be turned over
to the legal department.
Is Matt trying to rip us off? This sounds like a kind of invoice scam which is a classic trick. During many years faked
invoices have sent out to companies, who afraid to get listed at authrities as non-payers or ending up with a legal situation
accepts and pays bills to FRAUDsters.
You judge if he did right or wrong, my opinion is clear.
Matt has not contacted me in any way except this, thru PayPal. I have discarded his e-mails as just another clever way to scam people off.
PayPal has been informed of this act as I hope it'll come to his attention how wrong this is.
For any further information on this event, feel free to contact me, Alx Grepe,
by e-mail: alexander.grepe@abc.se
or phone: +46-708627783...
I'm playing with open cards on this to let you know we are not violating privacy rules, nor do we tolerate attempts of fraud thru e-mail...
Slashdot Mirror
You bet we are, but I'm not going to brag at Slashdot about it :)
/Alx
Thank you very much for your input!
...
We took this shot right before we returned back to the terrorist training camp : )
With best regards,
Alx Grepe (the guy at the far right with the sun blinding his eyes)
Alxnet.com
Hi again readers! It's now been confirmed - We have now found that Matt, depsite what he told the readers, did not only use that e-mail address to sign up to the services. Our services provided are guestbooks for homepages, Matt put on on his. In a message on that guestbook: http://pub.alxnet.com/guestbook?id=2249224 He has posted a message with this address in, and that's where a spam harvest bot found it. So, Alxnet has not given out the address, he did himself. Matt's false allegations has as well put us in a bad spot. Some kind of one-man warrior who in thinking he would do justice has after reading this compromised one of our testings server (let's face it, the machine has been running since '98 w/o harm and it was hacked today, we draw our conclusions).. Fortunatly, this is not a mission critical machine, but on the other hand - it's made things hard for thousands of people to send Christmas Wishes. If you who read this feel hit by this as being the one who did this, call us or e-mail us telling us you're sorry we will accept this in the spirit of christmas. LESSON LEARNT: Do not judge people without learning the whole truth. Ask both sides for their view on the story or it will make you blind... With best regards and Merry Christmas! Alx Grepe CEO & Founder Alxnet.com E-mail: alexander.grepe@abc.se Phone: +46-708627783
Read our answer to the allegations further down as a reply to the main posting. Regards, Alx Grepe Alxnet.com E-mail: alexander.grepe@abc.se Phone: +46-708627783
Read our comment at the bottom of the main thread. Again, we did not send out that spam. Alx Grepe Alxnet.com E-mail: alexander.grepe@abc.se Phone: +46-708627783
Hi!
//www.alxnet.com/mkaatman.txt</A>
...
My name is Alx Grepe and I am the founder and owner of <B>Alxnet AB</B>,
owners of alxnet.com / alxbook.com.
I have come to know of this message thread thru a reader who e-mailed me for
an advice on this matter.
<B>To start off:</B> Alxnet.com does NOT promote spam. We did NOT send the
message out. We collect e-mails to use for login purposes at our services as
well as populating our news letters.
We also offer advertisers to send e-mail advertising to our users on a
<B>100% double opt-in</B> basis where the advertiser does not actually get
the e-mail but rather send it out thru our list broker, PostmasterDirect.com
We do NOT send out mailings to our users on our news letters without their
possibility to remove themselves at any time.
<B>Second:</B> We will investigate how this message was sent out to him, and
as the sender seems to be using RoadRunner services in NYC, I bet it's not
too hard to track him/them down. I've had problems with spammers using
RR.com myself before. Whoever did this has hurt our business name and will
not get a happy new year...
We do not yet know how he managed to harvest this e-mail address, but we'll continue looking at it. All we know is that it did not originate from us.
<B>Third, is Matt attempting FRAUD?</B>:
As I wrote a response to Matt I noticed something about his e-mail address
that made me recall that I did in fact remember the domain it was sent from,
mail.win.org).
I looked up my e-mail box, as I save all outgoing e-mail, I found a letter
sent from him to me that I had sent to Paypal.com:s abuse department.
The mail was sent to me from Matt thru Paypal to the address at which I
signed up for the alxbook.com domain in the whois registry:
alexander.grepe@ABC.SE
I never see mail go to that address with the abc.se in capital except when I
recieve spam harvested from Network Solution. (they seemed to upper-case
domain names in e-mails for some reason)
What's worse, the letter Suject read:
"Bill for Email Processing"
the body read, in short:
Money Request details
Ammount: $50
Event: Bill for e-mail processing
Event Date: December 13, 2001
Note:
Your company has been found in violation of your privacy agreement [...] and in
violation of Missouri Senate Bill 763.
[...]
Thank you for doing business with us, Unpaid accounts will be turned over
to the legal department.
Alx: how rude is that?
<A HREF="http://www.alxnet.com/mkaatman.txt">http:
Is Matt trying to rip us off? This sounds like a kind of invoice scam which is a classic trick. During many years faked
invoices have sent out to companies, who afraid to get listed at authrities as non-payers or ending up with a legal situation
accepts and pays bills to FRAUDsters.
You judge if he did right or wrong, my opinion is clear.
Matt has not contacted me in any way except this, thru PayPal. I have discarded his e-mails as just another clever way to scam people off.
PayPal has been informed of this act as I hope it'll come to his attention how wrong this is.
For any further information on this event, feel free to contact me, Alx Grepe,
by e-mail: alexander.grepe@abc.se
or phone: +46-708627783
I'm playing with open cards on this to let you know we are not violating privacy rules, nor do we tolerate attempts of fraud thru e-mail...