Comments on: Earn Profits, Dark Profits

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 21:35:34 +0000

would someone tell me how ping -a for dark profits resolves to loopbak address

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 08:22:15 +0000

Well it looks like the web’s destroyer of all things urban legend has finally tracked this one down. Check out Snopes dissection of the Dark Profits spam. Cheers!

By: Dennis Coles

Dennis Coles — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:45:27 +0000

Within three days I have received two emails from Dark Profits, with the same spiel: my credit card is going to be charged $22.95 weekly, and a free 3-pack of child porn CD is shipping to my billing address. “To cancel your membership and CD pack please email full credit card details to cancel @darkprofits.com.” (It doesn’t work.)

I took this to be a (to me na�ve) way of collecting credit card numbers, to be used for other purposes.

One of the emails came via home.nl (in Holland), the other via Videotron, which is in Montreal. The message ID was from cis.net, which is in West Virginia.

I don’t find it amusing. I have launched an official complaint with all three service providers

By: Tina

Tina — Mon, 13 Oct 2003 03:55:00 +0000

I just got the one in which they ask for the credit card #. The idiots can’t even spell.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:17:05 +0000

Well, I got another one of these today. I expect my website traffic to pick up soon! Remember web-surfers. If you came for the “Dark Profits” stay for the pie!

By: Margie

Margie — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:04:48 +0000

Yeah, at least now I know about this. I’d gone to the website and was afraid somehow they’d gotten my credit card information. Glad I’m not the only one and I can start deleting those.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:42:19 +0000

I love how I’m the number 1 search result for this on google now. Way to go everyone! =)

By: george

george — Sat, 27 Sep 2003 07:08:25 +0000

I got it today: I sent a copy to the fbi

By: jabroni138

jabroni138 — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:25:35 +0000

I received the same above e-mail this morning

By: Renee

Renee — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:50:59 +0000

I’ve received the above several times also. Here’s their newest. My guess is they have purchased or harvested a mailing list from businesses that recruit work-from-home people?

Important notice

We have just charged your credit card for money laundry service in amount of $234.65 (because you are either child pornography webmaster or deal with dirty money, which require us to layndry them and then send to your checking account).
If you feel this transaction was made by our mistake, please press “No”.
If you confirm this transaction, please press “Yes” and fill in the form below.

Enter your credit card number here:

Enter your credit card expiration date: