ExposureBlog

Far as I can tell, there’s no federal regulation listing the threshold limit value (TLV) to Internet spam.  If there was, I’m sure this site would be way overexposed.  Each day I have to put on the respirator and gloves, grab the baggies and flush out junk spam from this site.  If there were effective, enforceable regs against spam in this world, I decided that the perps at the San Francisco outfit bebo.com would be doing other things.  Like selling real estate.  Then I got Viagra spam from twosixtypress.com.  Twosixtypress?  In fact, the email for this stuff seemed to be from from my editor just a few doors down.  I opened it up and, sure enough, it was hawking Viagra.  I usually don’t talk about Viagra with my editor, so I figured something else must be going on.  I opened the email and looked at the site: “intuitionthick.com.”  That phrase fairly screamed ”China Spam” and when I went to Whois, sure enough, intuitionthick was a China operation.  Seems this pill factory is named Shittongtong, and is operating out of Jianshi, China (look it up on Google Earth).  There is an email listed as shitongtong(at)26.com. But don’t bother sending any email. It’s bogus. The phone number 86-0796-28850266 may be bogus as well.  I know, it’s tempting to thing there’s four or five smart, twenty-something Chinese grad students trying to pull in serious yuan from Viagra-deprived American net surfers, but. . .what if Shitongtong is a legit company that’s been scammed by a pack of thugs in, say, Moldavia or Marie-El?  Fact is, no one knows.  I sure don’t.  So every day, I clean out junk labeled bebo.com and glee.com and thenget back to working on exposure info where I know the client and the case and have a good idea of the facts.  Nothing like the Internet these days.