Oct 15
My check is not waiting
Don’t you just hate emails that offer false hopes in their subject message. This one was entitled “Your check is still waiting”
Here’s the actual message inside:
Hello,
We apologize for contacting you at this time of the day, and we hope that we haven’t interrupted you in anyway, but we wanted to make sure that you received the message that we sent you last week.
We have checks ready to send you for offering us your honest opinion on various online surveys that only take a few minutes to complete. So if you’re interested in earning a nice extra income each month for just giving your opinion on various surveys then press here to begin:
http://stateez.com/tr.php?57182+myemailaddress
ST and its partners bring you fresh opportunities to express your opinions, participate in online focus groups, try out new products, be heard AND be paid to boot! How would you like to sit in the comfort of your own home, fill out surveys online, and participate in online focus groups and get a nice big paycheck at the end of the month?
You can participate whenever you’d like, morning, noon, night .. midnight if you’d like .. it doesn’t matter. Simply log in and select surveys to fill out, get paid for your time. Work for 30 minutes or three hours, it doesn’t matter ..you set your own hours!
Press here to start:
http://stateez.com/tr.php?57182+REMOVED@yahoo.com
We can only accept a few more people, but we will accept you if you’re interested…and we hope you are!
Thank you,
Jennifer P.
PSC Representative since 1998
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To not receive future offers/promotions from “Survey Club Online” please press on the below link and scroll to the bottom of the page:
http://stateez.com/tr.php?57183+myemailaddress
Or send us a letter at:
6965 El Camino Real
Suite 105 – 698
La Costa, CA 92009
The check will only be waiting once I’ve completed the surveys. Sighs, rolls eyes. Also, there is no homepage for http://stateez.com. So who and what are stateez?
Although some companies do promise big payouts, I can’t think of many more mundane things than filling out surveys.
October 17th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
they sent me an e-mail giving me free access to all tv companies around the world. Oh Joy!!!!!!!
October 19th, 2008 at 2:03 am
http://WWW.STATEEZ.COM – Geo Information
IP Address 64.86.69.186
Host http://www.stateez.com
Location Canada
City Brampton, ON l6t5g1
Organization Velcom
ISP Teleglobe
AS Number AS30407
Latitude 43°68’33″ North
Longitude 79°76’67″ West
October 19th, 2008 at 3:25 am
I just complained to velcom.ca with a sample spam message plus headers and here’s their reply:
Thank you very much for your notification.
Please note that we have notified our customer about the complaint so that he could take measures regarding the abuse. We have given him 48 hours to resolve the issue before taking strict measures against him.
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Regards,
Tara
Customer Support
October 19th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Hi there. They also deal in dating apparently. I had one today with the title ‘Meet me tonight..I’m lonely – Sexually explicit’
I’ve had so many of these stateez emails I recognize them now before I open them.
This one went on..
“-sexually explicit- Flirty Single Women want to date new people this week-
Think of all the hot women you see every day… How will you ever get to meet them all? Makes you crazy, doesn’t it?
We’ve got thousands of beautiful single women that you can meet and date this week on our Lonely Singles Adult Dating Network! — and all you need to do is join the party right now for NO COST!
Press here to check us out TODAY for NO COST:
http://stateez.com/tr.php?57948+myemailaddress
The single women that we can introduce you to today are the BEST women to date and have fun with if you don’t want to get serious. These women are not seeking love, but they want to meet new people to have fun with in the bedroom!
Press here to meet and date a flirty single woman this week:
http://stateez.com/tr.php?57948+myemailaddress”
I can’t answer your question yet, I’d like to know who stateez are too.
All the best.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I googled the name because I had about 20 emails in my spam from them, no idea how they got my email address! Let me know if you have any luck stopping the emails.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Hi, I was getting tons of these emails, 2-5 per day, so I complained to velcom.ca. Take a look at my post above, #3 at October 19th, 2008 at 3:25 am. That was almost 2 days ago and they have stopped so far. Please complain to velcom.ca. You open a ticket with them, and send them your email with headers. They will warn stateez.com to stop.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Thanks for the info and the advice, Stu
October 21st, 2008 at 3:00 am
let me know if the emails stop (smt@cogeco.ca). When I complained, I said that others were receiving spam also. STATEEZ.COM looks like a Canadian spammer, possibly located near Brampton ON. I live close by, and I’d like to see this kind of Internet traffic shut down if possible.
Stu
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Yes, I haven’t received anything for the past few days.
There is a downside to this. For the past week I’ve seen an increase in visitors here, all have come by way of googling, “stateez”. So there will probably be less visitors here now
On the upside my inbox will be a little bit less full of rubbish.
Thanks Stu
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:05 pm
OK, http://www.stateez.com has changed ISPs. The spam is starting again. I checked with Velcom.ca, their old ISP, who turfed them out after my complaint, for spamming. Stateez.com has popped up again, and here’s their new ISP, closer to home for them:
http://WWW.STATEEZ.COM – Geo Information
IP Address 67.209.138.130
Host http://www.stateez.com
Location US US, United States
City La Habra, CA 90631
Organization Advan Technologies LLC
ISP The ColoSite, LLC
AS Number AS23073
I’ve registered with The ColoSite, LLC, and I’ll open a ticket as soon as I am able. I’m going after them.
October 25th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
My husband and I got a few “Married Wives Looking to Date” in our Yahoo email spam, and we just delete them, but the most recent one got me wondering if there was some way to totally stop them from appearing (we want our email account family friendly). Here’s what we got:
Ashley wants to invite you to a great site-sexually explicit Saturday, October 25, 2008 12:34 AM
From: “Affairs Club” Add sender to Contacts To: (our email address)
Ashley has a -sexually explicit- message to give you-
Hi there, my name is Ashley and I’m a 29 year old married woman. My friends at The Affairs Club wanted me to send a personal message to a few people who have visited dating communities in the past, and we understand that you have. I hope that I am not bothering you in any way.
I have been a member of the Affairs club for 3 months now, and I must admit that I am addicted to this site. I love my husband, but he travels A LOT for work, and I have needs that I just can’t control. I’m not looking for love, just for no strings attached love making with men that I will only see one or two times in my life.
My husband is also very conservative when it comes to making love, so the guys that I meet at the Affairs Club have to want to pleasure me everywhere, and when I say “everywhere”, I mean in every spot.
Now the people at the Affairs Club picked me to send out this message over the thousands of other married women only because I informed them how much I love their dating site…You and I will probably never meet, but there are thousands of married women just like me that you can date and make love to. In fact, I have met and slept with 15 gentlemen from this site in the past 3 months, and some of the other married women that I have met here have told me they make love to 10 or 20 different men a month. You wouldn’t believe how many husbands leave their wives alone for business…it’s crazy!
Married women like me are not sluts, we love our husbands, but you only live once, and we have needs and want to have fun.
Press here if you’re interested in meeting and dating married women:
http://stateez.com/tr.php?58192+REMOVED@yahoo.com
Have fun no matter what you do in life! Just don’t let the days past you by without enjoying them to the fullest!
Love,
Ashley
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If you would like to not be contacted from us in the future please press on the link below:
http://stateez.com/tr.php?58193+REMOVED@yahoo.com
or write to:
6965 El Camino Real
Suite 105 – 698
La Costa, CA 92009
You will not get anymore of our emails if you go here:
http://stateez.com/unsub.php?client=software_innovations4&msgid=
and enter your email address (REMOVED@yahoo.com)
or write to:
Software Innovations Inc.
160 W. Foothill Pkwy, Suite 105-20
Corona, CA 92882
TRCK:software_innovations4;REMOVED@yahoo.com;1;
(end email)
I wondered if it would help or exacerbate the situation to click on the unsubscribe link?
Thanks for being here. God bless.
Melyssa
October 25th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Hi Melyssa, I took the liberty of removing your email address from your post, which was in your stateez message.
I clicked the unsuscribe link and haven’t received anything since, but this may be due to Stu’s efforts reporting stateez.
October 25th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I spoke to soon. Just received a new stateez email. You can read it here – http://highena.com/scams/dr-suzanne-says-im-fat/
November 6th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Received the check is waiting email, amongst many others that have made the mail to address look all to familiar, of which i googled to find this site.
I have just put stateez.com in the domain junk email filter option in hotmail and i suppose that will stop the emails coming from that domain at least. ( if in fact they do, Probably bounced around beforehand.) A pity though, as that email Mellysa got sounded preety good! , lol.
November 9th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
If you are using Hotmail, then there has been an upgrade (or downgrade as far as I am concerned) and you can now easily set filters to delete any Email from stateez.com
To do a similar thing in Outlook Express; select the E-mail you received, click Message>Create Rule From Message, then create a filter that deletes any message from stateez.com
I don’t use any other E-mail clients but I’m sure there is a similar thing in all of them. If there isn’t, then I would have to say they are crap!
Easy when you know how… lol. Hope this helps someone.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:37 am
Thanks Stu for the advice and info, don’t know how they got my email address, and I live in England. I would also like to see this sort of traffic stopped too. Also thanks to Jobs2k for the message rule. I will put it into place asap.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I use BTYAHOO as my mail client and I added stateez.com to my blocked list last night, so far no more spam of this nature has arrived. Fingers crossed it will work. Hope I haven’t spoken too soon. Wish me luck!!!!
November 24th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
[...] Another spam email from stateez: [...]
January 11th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
I’ve received many e-mails from this company and they won’t stop no matter what. I suspect they got my e-mail from Iolo because I bought System Mechanic and registered just before Christmas and that’s when the e-mails started. I’ve contacetd Iolo twice since then bout them possible sharing my e-mail address and they have not responded. That’s the lsat Iolo product I will ever buy
January 11th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
since my last posting in november i have had no more emails from stateez but i do keep on getting ones that use my email address back to myself – the body contains company addresses in the states – these must have started since before christmas when i signed up to start using online surveys – they all appear to be marketing firms. I now ignore these.
January 28th, 2009 at 4:09 am
I have been getting heaps of these too, “Affairs Club”, plus all sorts of surveys and software upgrades (Adobe was one). Looks like they have changed
their domain or got a new one, see the header below:
Return-path:
Envelope-to: **REMOVED**
Delivery-date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:43:48 -0500
Received: from [66.71.245.10] (helo=lice.powatih.com)
by utapau.**REMOVED**.com with smtp (Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from )
id 1LRoEG-0004ME-7A
for **REMOVED**; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:43:48 -0500
From: Affairs Club
Subject: Ashley still wants to invite you to a great site-sexually explicit
To: **REMOVED**
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:43:51 PST
X-RAVMilter-Version: 039.3375774380
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
January 10th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
How do I stop this junk?