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This shortURL Address has been Shutdown for Spamming !


The Short URL http://alturl.com/ecfrg was forwarding to a spammer's URL:
http://www.crushers-online.com/services/click.php?url=https://enhancedketopills.com <— Do not visit this URL (it is not to be trusted). We post it here only as a reference for anyone tracking this spammer/scammer.

How did you end up at our site?
ShortURL is a URL shortening service allowing people more easily share links by generating a "short url" that forwards to another, often longer, URL. The spammer pasted the shortURL they made (http://alturl.com/ecfrg) in spam they sent you. This shortURL may have also been one of many in a chain of URLs, the original URL you clicked on may have been another URL shortening service that they set to forward to the one they made with our website, in attempt to make their link more difficult to track. We've shut down the shortURL they made and thus you are seeing this message.

We can't remove you from any lists, we're not the jerks who spammed you...
Most likely the spammer, who's already doing something illegal, had no plans to honor your removal request anyway -- and requesting removal may have only verified that your address was active and led to increased future spamming. Spammers sometimes will fire off hundreds of thousands of emails to random name, letter and number combos @icloud.com for example and consider it a success if even .1% turn out to be valid addresses.

If they slip through our filters when creating a short URL, we often shut down spammers within seconds of their spam campaign using our own proprietary anti-spam tools as well as using live feeds from various 3rd party spam reporting sources that we subscribe to.

We also receive spam reports from individual recipients like you, at an email which we monitor 24/7. We report spammers to anti-spam data hubs so often their short use of our service leads to their target URLs being black-listed. If appropriate, we report their spamming to their webhost, ISP, affiliate program, or any other parties in the chain of their spam. We extensively blacklist spammers and do our best to prevent them from abusing our service again.

Unfortunately spammers who find they were not successful in using our public service, will simply move on to another URL shortening services. Even URL shortening services operated by tech pioneering mammoths like Google, inevitably get abused by spammers. Spammers also register their own domain names with fraudelent credit cards or hijack websites and blogs where they maintain a collection page or url redirect unkownst to the website owner for sometime.

If you want to try to get back at these spammers- in some cases you can use a safe browsing tool like the "NoScript" add-on for Firefox and visit the spammer's target URL above (listed in red) at your own risk, and track down the affiliate program they were promoting and then report them to the service they are using to get commissions on leads they bring in. Although in many cases we also do this but it doesn't hurt to get more complaints in to the service they are trying to promote. This is not always fruitful however as some spammers are promoting websites that are themselves run by scammers. In this case you can pursue reporting the target domain name to their web-host and domain registration provider.

If you received spam on your cell/mobile phone...
What probably happend was the spammer sent out spam to random phone numbers @ your provider's text message address. For example, if you have ATT, you can send an email to: [email protected] which will show up on your phone as a text. Similarly with other providers, such as: [email protected] for Verizon Wireless, [email protected] (Sprint), [email protected] (T-Mobile). Or they used an actual SMS message to text a long list of mobile numbers. Additionally there's another way that spam can end up on your phone, and that is if you've have ever created an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account, and entered your phone number in the settings for it. If spammers spam your AIM and you are not logged into AIM, then AOL will deliver the message to your phone. The marker for this is that the text will come from the phone number 265-080. Here's how to disable that.

If you google search something like: cell phone spam , or, mobile text spam, and the name of your provider e.g ATT, you will come across some helpful articles on how to stop spam to your phone. Such as:

http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB115812&cv=820#fbid=kkodtZtiUua

http://www.wireless.att.com/support_static_files/KB/svc/documents/1220912515172.Anti-spam%20FAQ%20080707%20Consumer.pdf

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/how-to-block-cellphone-spam/

http://support.verizonwireless.com/faqs/Features%20and%20Optional%20Services/spam_controls.html

http://support.sprint.com/support/pages/printTemplate.jsp?articleId=case-gz982789-20120420-003932




Please contact the ShortURL team if you have any feedback regarding this page or the spam your received. There's no need to forward us a copy of the spam or report it as we have already discovered the spammer and shut down the link.



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