spam mentioning ModDB Thread

Got this today:

email wrote: Helloooooooooooooooooooooooo
My name is Nora. i am a beautiful young girl with faithful, loving, tender and very caring. I am seriously looking for relationship leading to any thing. Today i saw your Profile here (www.moddb.com) and i love it,infart i be came intrested to be you good friend in life, i think we can write together. to be come good friend, (Remeber thedistance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life) please i will like you to contact me with, (nora_25utazi@hidden.com) i will like to show you my photo and at the same time you will know more about me.and i will also like to see you photos becaus i will send my photos to you.i am very good girl i need good frinend that will like me. once again please Reply me I will be happy to see your reply here.(nora_25utazi@hidden.com)
thanks for your understanding Nora

This is the first spam that Google Mail has not filtered in about 4 months. Which i think is really good, considering i display my email (without [at]s or [dots]) everywhere

I loved the sound of Nora so much, i emailed her back asking to be my life partner. She said yes
Thanks for bringing us together ModDB, i heart you 10% of the amount i heart Nora.
(10% finders fee)

i got it too, god damn it!! NORA IS MINE!!!

I just got the exact same thing, i'm actually pretty scared that theres some 45 year old pedo e mailing me under the guise of a young girl. Also its pretty sick since im 18 and shes coming on to me and is allegedly 15 or something, these emails annoy the hell out of me, you guys can have Nora lmao.

I also received this email

From: Nora Utazi (nora_25utazi@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed, Aug 19, 2009
Mailed by: yahoo.com
Signed by: Yahoo.com

Someone wrote: Helloooooooooooooooooooooooo
My name is Nora. i am a beautiful young girl with faithful, loving, tender and very caring. I am seriously looking for relationship leading to any thing. Today i saw your Profile here (www.moddb.com) and i love it,infart i be came intrested to be you good friend in life, i think we can write together. to be come good friend, (Remeber thedistance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life) please i will like you to contact me with, (nora_25utazi@yahoo.com) i will like to show you my photo and at the same time you will know more about me.and i will also like to see you photos becaus i will send my photos to you.i am very good girl i need good frinend that will like me. once again please Reply me I will be happy to see your reply here.(nora_25utazi@yahoo.com)
thanks for your understanding Nora

The administrators of ModDB should atleast invesitgate this and warn their users. You can tell that this bot is a Philiphine, Chinese, or African scammer by the terrible grammar they use. They are farming ModDB emails.

Edited by: NullSoldier

Yep this is going to happen to anyone who has their emails available on their profiles. Its a rule of thumb on the internet and you should all be aware of, if you don't want to have your email out in the open like this we just ask that you don't have it visible on your profiles. You can change this within your profile settings.

I'm only fourteen, and this seems to bother me.
I've had this problem twice now.

Hello dear friend How are you? i hope all is well with you, i hope you may not know me, and i don't know who you are, My Name is Miss Gift, i am just broswing now i just saw your profile it seams like some thing touches me all over my body, i started having some feelings in me which i have never experience in me before, so i became interested in you, l will also like to know you the more,and l want you to send an email so l can give you my picture for you to know whom l am. I believe we can move from here! I am waiting for your mail to my email address (Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life)

Greetings From Augustina
Dear, my name is Augustina James, a young girl from Abidjan in Ivory Coast 20 years old and I have lost my parents. Please help me to invest the money my late father left for me and also help me come over to your country to continue my education. The money is $6.300,000.00 and it is still in the bank. I promise to give you 20% if you can help me. I want you to help me to transfer the money to your country. May God bless you
waiting for you response

Augustina James

EDIT:

I just got another just now, so make that three

Helloooooooooooooooooooooooo My name is Nora. i am a beautiful young girl with faithful, loving, tender and very caring. I am seriously looking for relationship leading to any thing. Today i saw your Profile here (www.moddb.com) and i love it,infart i be came intrested to be you good friend in life, i think we can write together. to be come good friend,(Remeber thedistance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life) please i will like you to contact me with, (nora_25utazi@yahoo.com) i will like to show you my photo and at the same time you will know more about me.and i will also like to see you photos becaus i will send my photos to you.i am very good girl i need good frinend that will like me. once again please Reply me I will be happy to see your reply here.(nora_25utazi@yahoo.com) thanks for your understanding Nora

I think Moddb administrators need to take action, as email is the only way I can sometimes deal with people who need help installing my mod (And who don't want to create a Moddb profile just to get help installing a mod)

DOUBLE EDIT: They're the same flipping person!

(Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life)

(Remeber thedistance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life)

Edited by: eezstreet

But what action could they take? If you need your email to be publicly available you have to accept that any member of the public can use it, for reasons good or bad.

*shrug*
Because 14 year olds come on here, and that could be considered child molestation?
Your guess is as good as mine.
People should at least be notified about this, that way people who aren't informed can have the chance to remove their email address before something dire occurs.

Edited by: eezstreet

I've set my email to hidden hopefully I shouldn't get any more. Though, I did get a new one before I set it to hidden.

Someone wrote: Hello ,
My name is Evlin, it is my pleasure to write you after viewing your profile here (www.moddb.com) in this site which really interests me to communicate with you.
It will be better if you can write me back via my email for a comfortable communication. i have something to share with you. i will be waiting to hear from you. have a blessed day. waiting for your kindly respond in email address here ( evlin04@yahoo.com ).
yours Evlin.

I've had it before. It's just spam. If you're email address is out there in the public eye (or even not, randomly generated addresses can also be yours..), you're going to recieve spam. It's as old as the mainstream public internet itself.

Nora you WHORE! I had no idea you would go to everyone's email, I thought we had something special.

There are plenty of protections you (moddb) can provide for your users moreso than just saying "your email is public". Perhaps moddb should look into some?

Edited by: GiffE

eezstreet wrote: *shrug*
Because 14 year olds come on here, and that could be considered child molestation?
Your guess is as good as mine.
People should at least be notified about this, that way people who aren't informed can have the chance to remove their email address before something dire occurs.

Posting confidential information like contact details is something YOU should be aware of when using the internet.

Yes but I didn't know that by posting my email to let my modplayers know how to contact me meant getting annoying spam. Oh well. I'll just put it in the readme.

I am also getting these stupid spam emails. I got one from Nora, one from Giftbaby, one from Elvinbaby and more. It's freaking annoying! I'll see if hiding my email and not responding will make the person think he/she or whatever it is leave me alone.

Does anyone have a full list of these emails sending the spam out so I can just block them? I have to have my emails public for my project, it wouldnt be so bad but im getting them x3...

Never gotten an email yet and my email address is on 100's of sites . Gmail does a good job of filtering this stuff out for me. And the moddb staff already told you what to do if you are getting these. There is nothing else they can really do about it.

sounds like a troll to me

BTW
The names are (Atleast from what I've seen and what other people are posting):

Augustina James
Nora Utazi
Giftbaby
Elvinbaby

Nora Utazi -196.207.192.219 (Senegal, West Africa)
Gift Baby ( ) 196.207.228.17, 213.154.92.190, 196.207.193.91 (Senegal, West Africa ; Senegal, West Africa ; Senegal, West Africa)
Augustina James Couldnotretrieve, 196.201.91.17, 196.201.91.17, 196.201.91.17 (Unknown, Senegal, West Africa ; Senegal, West Africa ; Senegal, West Africa)

Again, this must be a troll. It's from the same person.

Edited by: eezstreet

Why hasn't Nora ever emailed me? I feel so unwanted, unlovable and obsolete now!

@Eezstreet - The user ie. Nora or whoever, might be using an internet provider that issues Dynamic IP's as standard to it's customers! This is unfortunately quite common with ISP's these days! Basically it means that a customer of the provider never has the very same IP address everytime they restart their connect. For example, the ISP I am using issues Dynamic IP's... If my IP now was xxx.xxx.xxx.x1, The next time I restart my router it could be xxx.xxx.xxx.12.

If the above is the case, then it isn't illegal at all!

EDIT: Damn... You edited before I quit typing! lolz.

Edited by: Orion

Not a troll, just a Nigerian scammer. When I'm really bored, I just email them back with a secondary email account. Raise their hopes a bit that someone is actually going to send them money. Then dash them by sending other things. Or annoy them by sending them something that is so riddled with broken english that not even a lolcat could understand it.

Edited by: Cryrid

Lol... Nice one Cryrid! I shall take inspiration from what ya just said and put it to good use! lol.

Orion wrote: Why hasn't Nora ever emailed me? I feel so unwanted, unlovable and obsolete now!

@Eezstreet - The user ie. Nora or whoever, might be using an internet provider that issues Dynamic IP's as standard to it's customers! This is unfortunately quite common with ISP's these days! Basically it means that a customer of the provider never has the very same IP address everytime they restart their connect. For example, the ISP I am using issues Dynamic IP's... If my IP now was xxx.xxx.xxx.x1, The next time I restart my router it could be xxx.xxx.xxx.12.

If the above is the case, then it isn't illegal at all!

EDIT: Damn... You edited before I quit typing! lolz.

I know, I was tracing them funny or something (I was tracing Yahoo email servers instead of the actual IP)
Cyrid...you do give me an idea. But sending stuff in the mail is a bit too risky (return mail address).

Now if I could send the person something...hmm...

Why am I thinking a pair of scissors that are glued shut?

BTW, Orion holy crap you use a lot of !s

EDIT:BTW, I don't think 213.xxx is a result of a dynamic IP...idk though
They are all using yahoo email as far as I can tell.

Edited by: eezstreet

eezstreet wrote: Cyrid...you do give me an idea. But sending stuff in the mail is a bit too risky (return mail address).

Easy answer... Create a new Gmail or Hotmail account just to use when dealing with these scam artists! Like Cryrid said, all you'd have to do is send them the new email addy for them to respond to!

And yes... I love my !'s...!!!!!!!

If I get one of these I am just going to reply with a link to something.on.nimp.org, which should be avoided at all costs. It opens several browser windows, each displaying a shock site, the windows move around so they are hard to close, and in the background there is an audio clip of a guy saying something loud and annoying.

I have never been there but I pranked one of my e-friends with it, in addition to looking it up via Google.

[ADDED]

Apparently it is a mirror of the GNAA's "Last Measure" site. For those who do not know what the GNAA is (Including me up until about 5 minutes ago) go here: Wikitruth.info (Contains vulgar words)

Edited by: RandomusIdiotus

Orion wrote:

eezstreet wrote: Cyrid...you do give me an idea. But sending stuff in the mail is a bit too risky (return mail address).

Easy answer... Create a new Gmail or Hotmail account just to use when dealing with these scam artists! Like Cryrid said, all you'd have to do is send them the new email addy for them to respond to!

And yes... I love my !'s...!!!!!!!

Whew, glad I'm not being spammed! (From now on I'll be using "!"s too in place of periods! )

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