What’s the hurry spanky?
Question by tin m: What’s the hurry spanky?
I was just replying to you and was surprised you closed the Q that soon with you thinking you got nasty responses , and I assure you , you misunderstood what H is telling you , H did not mean to insult you.
However please read my answer (or now question) below , and answer it if you have further inquiries on this subject. Other members input is always welcome.
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I bet you none of these are actually sent by real Dubai based companies or businesses , most of these are fake from people in other countries impersonating Dubai or UAE entities , to cash-in on the boom in dubai and the coverage it has been getting worldwide, they abuse that and all these e-mail lists and spam servers are not actually based in UAE . A lot of these come from Nigerian, Russia, east Europe, US, India, & Malaysia. The UAE can’t reach these people because they are not operating from with in the UAE. Of course there may be some actual or real businesses sending promos, but for the real ones you can simply contact them and ask to be removed from any promo list or just add their e-mail your spam filter. Some times your own ISP/ webmail sends you ads for other companies they deal with , these are not really spam, they are just part of the way the operate. Unless you are on Hotmail they do send a lot of spam on that , try Yahoo or Google or whatever there are thousands of free mail websites not all of them are after spam money.
As for operating a “scammer” business in UAE, that is very hard to do and the law is very strict if caught. The UAE has a specific internet law to prosecute any one that does that. But of course nothing is 100% proof , they may find a way but I don’t know of any (internet scam from within UAE) , and haven’t heard of such cases in a long time.
We have several e-mail boxes with a UAE provider , and 1 of them always gets spam as you describe and it is quite annoying to the point we stopped using it, while the other e-mails on the same provider do not have the spam problem. These people who spam you must have gotten your e-mail from an online list some where or from a real company that you dealt with (like if you bought some thing or subscribed to a magazine etc). Where in this company sold the e-mail list of its customers to other parties for profit.
Note that for the legitimate spam (not scams or viruses) opening them is not that risky because you need to open those to read how to “unsubscribe” or find out the contact e-mail that you can send a complaint to to make them stop sending you the ads. If you are not sure if has a malicious script in the e-mail then you can stomp that from being activated by turning off the script & java from running in your browser options settings. (this will also turn it off in Outlook e-mail reader — meaning “options” in IE or Control Panel , it is the same)
Just because a spam e-mail has pictures of Dubai does not mean it was sent from there , a lot of travel agents around the world work on commission and pay people to promote their deals TO DUBAI, from their own XYZ country, on the internet , it is not really any one from Dubai doing that.
To check from which country & ISP the e-mail is coming from first you need to change your webmail or mail reader program to display full headers (usually not displayed , they are like the caller ID info), after which find out the domains + IPs shown on the headers text and do a WHOIS search on them, this will show the actual ISP and what country it operates from. Once you have done that go to the ISP page (which will be given along wit contact in the WHOIS info), and try to find out from their website how to lodge a span complaint . Send the complaint report to the ISP along with the offending IP of theirs (one of their customers) and a copy of the actual “headers” as proof it came from their service. Also provide exact time it was received because dynamic IPs are shared and they can only find out by the time this occurred. They will start an investigation until thy match which of their users did it and they will suspend their account. Some ISPs depending on the country may actually report the user to police or file a law suit against the spammer if they are a respectable company.
Finally UAE domains are limited , and there are only 2 ISPs, namely Etisalat and Du. If your spam shows other ISP names then it did not come from UAE.
H, yes I too did not see any other replies so that is why I assumed he misunderstood . But after this Q he replied privately and explained it was because of the name calling , so I don’t know exactly may be there were some thing we missed.
Best answer:
Answer by H
Tin, I don’t think Spanky thought of me when referring to “nasty”. He got called weak and a liar. And even Gammar didn’t try to insult anybody. Therefore we know her good enough, right?
Regarding spams: Yesterday morning I received a phone call on my mobile from Etisalat saying that my sim card #123456 was drawn and I won AED 200.000. I should take the card out and call back to confirm. Well, I took the card out and it was my number.
1) The caller was an Indian/Bangladeshi and almost not able to talk any english. When kept on asking to confirm what he was telling me, he became kind of rude.
2) The phone# I was suppose to call back was a mobile#. Since when is Etisalat calling from a mobile? Have people calling who don’t speak a proper english?
3) I reported the incident and the number isn’t in service any longer.
How can anybody think to win when never participated in anything?
So much as an additional to Spanky’s q/a.
Take care.
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