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This shortURL address was REMOVED for SPAMMING

The shortURL: http://alturl.com/vi6y8 was spammed via email, instant messaging, on a website, or by another means


How did you end up at our site?
Among other things, ShortURL is a URL shortening service allowing people to create a shortURL for sharing links by generating a ShortURL that forwards to another, often longer URL. They then pasted the shortURL http://alturl.com/vi6y8 in spam they sent, the message they posted etc. This shortURL may have also been one of many in a string of URLs, the original URL you clicked on may have been another URL shortening service that they set to forward to a shortURL in hope to make it 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 spammings.

If they slip through our filters when creating a short URL, we often shut down spammers within seconds or minutes of their spam campaign using our own proprietarty anti-spam tools as well as using live feeds from various spam reporting sources. We also receive spam reports from individual recipients 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 banned. 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 servce again.

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, Verizon uses: [email protected]. Or they may have used an actual SMS message to text a long list of mobile numbers.

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




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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