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cute my very first text spam/scam!
What I am trying to figure out is, I don't leave my number anywhere so where did they get it from?
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And nobody ever calls/texts me!
The official Do Not Call List, also known as the Please Call Me Incessantly list.
American companies can purchase the list and are not bound by the law. Result of a whois indicates that the site WONACONTEST.COM is registered in LA:
http://www.whois.com/whois/wonacontest.com
[edit]Interesting to see that the domain got created at the beginning of May, and the SMS spam started not long after. DDOS anybody?
[edit]And here they are in Google maps: http://goo.gl/maps/ZV8J
Oh no, no. They're using "whoisguard" proxy service.
The domain currently redirects to a penny auction site registered in Malta and the IP address bound to a server in Panama.
Sounds legit.
Cell phone number 613-29x-xxxx
+13475220452
On 2012-06-03 2:11pm
They might be wardialing SMS
I get spam at email addresses I've never used.
I actually had to do a double take on the web address.
That's pretty clever obfuscation, especially with the line break/