Comments on: Human Rights and Biophysics (strange similarities)

By: bugstomper

bugstomper — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:19:25 +0000

We got the Drug3K version of the email at a website I admin. My guess is that it is an automated spam sent to sites that hit some keyword search, based on the bit that says “I have seen you allready [sic] have in your site information and links regarding health , for instance in this page: [url]”

I found your blog entry while searching for details on “European Organisation of Family Health Research” to explain to the website owner why I thought the email was bogus. Thanks for posting your research and making that task easy.

By: jinnah mohammed

jinnah mohammed — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:35:35 +0000

He certainly does get around.

One thing you might have forgotten to mention is that if you check the contact information on the websites, there is no mention of an actual address or telephone number of the entity, just a vague blurb of what they do. Very odd - which is when I decided to do the WHOIS and Google lookup. Found the Romania address, and your review respectively.

Thanks for posting this note. I’ll report the e-mail to Google as spam.

Here’s the e-mail I got as webmaster for http://www.livingmanicdepressive3.com.

—
to jinnah@alum.mit.edu
date 17 July 2008 14:32
subject livingmanicdepressive.com request

Hello,

I came across your site while searching the net
for some quality websites.I think you did a great
job with your site.

I am Daniel and I am the administrator of Drug3k
(Online Drug Encyclopedia) website.Drug3k is a
project of European Organisation of Family Health
Research (EOFHR) - a non-profit research and
education organization .(
http://www.eofhr.org/technology.php )

I am looking for potential link partners. Our site
offers an excellent free online database for most
commonly prescribed drugs , includes links to
detailed product monograph(Prescription Drug
Information, Side Effects, Interactions,Drugs
pictures). This site is only for information on
correct use of medical drugs and side effects,
there are no pharmaceteutical products for sale.

I have seen you allready have in your site
information and links regarding health , for
instance in this page:
http://www.livingmanicdepressive.com/0_links.html

I would like to place a link to your website in
our links page, and if you could please add a link
to our website in your webpage.

For your convinience here it is the code needed:
Prescription
medication information Drug3k- Prescription
drug information for consumers

Please send me information about your site as you
would want it to appear in our links page.

Thank you for your time,
N. Daniel

#########################################
Drug3k - Online Drug Encyclopedia
HPM G5
ETH Honggeberg
CH-8093 Zurich / Switzerland
Tel: +41-1-638-1113
Fax: +41-1-693-10 31 and 693 11 21

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:38:59 +0000

Daniel gets around. I recently received the following email.

Subject: epidemiolog.net request

Hello,

I came across your site while searching the net
for some quality websites.I think you did a great
job with your site.

I have seen you allready have in your site
information and links regarding health , for
instance in this page:
http://www.epidemiolog.net/resources/onthenet.htm

I would like to place a link to your website in
our links page, and if you could please add a link
to our website in your webpage.

For your convinience here it is the code needed:
Prescription
medication information Drug3k- Prescription
drug information for consumers

Please send me information about your site as you
would want it to appear in our links page.

Thank you for your time,
N. Daniel

#########################################
Drug3k - Online Drug Encyclopedia
HPM G5
ETH Honggeberg
CH-8093 Zurich / Switzerland
Tel: +41-1-638-1113
Fax: +41-1-693-10 31 and 693 11 21

By: JC Greene

JC Greene — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:50:42 +0000

He’s at it again. My site - fiction, and much of it bogus - got the link-spam letter from the stamped-out-of-the ground EOFHR (”European Organisation of Family Health Research”).

This time, the google fodder below the fluffy toplevel site seems to be a WebMD Drug A-Z clone.

This guy has a great future in astroturf.

By: Jonas Maebe

Jonas Maebe — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:18:45 +0000

FYI, Nichifor Valentin’s latest intiative: The European Intellectual Property Association, at www dot eipaweb dot org. FAQ on the front page copied from the UK government.

Mail:

Hello,

I came across your site while searching the net for some quality
websites. I think you did a great job with your site.

My name is Daniel. I work for The European Intellectual Property Association (EIPAWEB).

I would like to add your site to our usefull links page ( http://www.eipaweb.org/links.php )
and I was wondering if you can post a link with our site in your website.

For your convenience I send you bellow the code for our website:
European Database Patents

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me and I’ll answer your
questions promtly.

We are Nonprofit organization .
Best regards,
Daniel
European Intellectual Property Association
eipaweb.org
HPM G5
ETH Honggeberg
CH-8093 Zurich / Switzerland
Tel: +41-1-638-3453
Fax: +41-1-693-10 73 and 693 11 51

Yes, Daniel’s everywhere!

By: Richard Clayton

Richard Clayton — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:12:27 +0000

First off, this is just a blog. Writing without a sense of fun (or perhaps passion) is, IMHO, a waste of the readers’ time.

That aside, a kinder person would need a couple of spare days to work through the entire list of people who have somewhat uncritically added links to their sites; to deal with the inevitable email bounces; and to explain the issues over and over again in words of one syllable.

Someone is trying to get another of the handful of sites I listed (which were just the ones whose names I thought people would know from the first page or so of Google results) — and they are currently on their third email (they’ve been cc’ing me) without the penny yet dropping

Cleaning up link farms is a task for someone with a lot more tuits than I have!

By: marina

marina — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:43:50 +0000

er, that would be “hall-of-shamers”. English spelling is still a killer.

By: marina

marina — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:39:57 +0000

So, just for fun, here’s a small excerpt from the Hall of Shame,

Well, Mr.Clayton, I’m glad we provided some entertainment for you.

Although I ‘m grateful that you did the research that helped me remove a bogus site from my links page, I do not appreciate your attitude. A (how shall I say it? ) kinder person would contact us, “hole-of-shamers”, and warn us about it. You, however, chose to make fun of us, publicly, confessing that it’s fun. This seems, well… unseemly.

Enjoy your sense of superiority.

Marina

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:01:41 +0000

Hehe. Yeah, I’ve had a couple of emails from them, but didn’t bother to go beyond looking at their page, and filing them under ‘kooks and crooks’. Thanks for putting them in the ‘crooks’ box!

By: Gary Hinson

Gary Hinson — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:51:00 +0000

… the amount of work put in … ??

All they need to do is find, cut and paste content from legitimate sites (such as the mission statement) and make a few changes to suit their purposes. Web publishing is easy - even I can do it (!) - and cheap.

And yes they do make money from it. I’ve just blogged about a phishing scam using a fake begging letter that appears to come from (what I believe to be) a genuine charity. Not satisfied with spoofing PayPal and banks, the identity thieves have fallen to new depths. Have they no morals? [/Dumb]

Gary.