Chinese Spammer Targets Boston Bombings

By John Honovich, Published Apr 15, 2013, 08:00pm EDT (Info+)

UPDATE: Cantonk, the spammer, says our article is illegal and demands it be removed immediately.

That was fast... and disgusting. One of the biggest Chinese surveillance spammers wasted no time in sending out a promotion capitalizing on the Boston bombings.

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Comments (19)

Matt Bischof

04/16/13 12:08pm
You could just BUY something from them.... I mean, considering all the advertising dollars they're throwing at you, ya kinda owe it to them at this point, don't ya?

Matt Bischof

04/16/13 12:15pm
I make jokes.... Consider my complaint to the FTC filed. Although I WILL miss their Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas cards featuring Corgi puppies... My God they love those things.

Bohan Huang

04/16/13 01:43pm

I think we can all complain to Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, and Major ISPs to blacklist them for Spam.

Also for users of HOtmail, Yahoo, GMail, etc... If we all mark there mail as spam then future email will have higher likely hood of being blacklisted.

Bohan Huang

04/16/13 01:48pm

It's very embarrassing that in this day and age a company cannot find someone with basic English grammar capability to write an official company marketing piece being sent out to millions of people... sigh...

Even more embarrassing that a $3 billion dollar company like Dahua Technology posts press releases full of horrific grammatical atrocities.

Stop to some Russian and Swedish reps last week - perfect English - written and verbal - incredible.

John Honovich

IPVM | 04/16/13 01:49pm

Bohan, evidently they rotate email addresses. I have emails from Candy, Kevin, Celine, Alice, Elia, Shirley and Monica. I am just stunned their whole domain has not yet been blacklisted. It looks like they are sending it directly and not going through an email mailing list service.

Bohan Huang

04/16/13 01:51pm

You know its going to be trouble when you start receiving mail from Candy! or Fancy (no joke)!

Matt Ion

04/16/13 03:22pm

You can also click the "This is Spam" button on Gmail/Hotmail/etc. - enough people do that, it WILL make a difference.

Gee, nothing from BRS Labs yet? :P

Marc Beningson

04/16/13 04:23pm

Matt, I've been waiting for the BRS message but perhaps John has intimidated them?

Miki Bata

04/17/13 05:10am

John, I simply wrote them an email kindly asking them to remove all addresses in our domain from their database. They did. :-)

John Honovich

IPVM | 04/17/13 10:08am

Miki, they responded to you? Wow! Can you ask on my behalf? :)

Matt Ion

04/17/13 03:52pm

Well, at least Cantonk isn't alone in their oppotunism...

Miki Bata

04/17/13 07:23pm

In all honesty, I was quite surprised my self, however I got a really polite reply even:

Okay dear manager, we will remove all @aspectis.hu addresses, sorry for any inconvenience for you. Tory

So, yeah, it works :-)

John Honovich

IPVM | 04/17/13 07:30pm

Miki, ok, I just tried again. We'll report if I get any response.

Btw, for those of you asking about BRS Labs, they evidently sent a transcript of a US politician calling for more cameras after the bombings. See this piece and acknolwedgment at Security Today.

Miki Bata

04/19/13 06:56am

Unfortunately it didn't work :-) Just received an email from Crystal :-D

John Honovich

IPVM | 04/19/13 09:59am

Yes, I got an email back from Alice saying she was sorry but she did not comment on whether or not my email was being removed. I fear that I am going to get an email from Crystal or Jade or Doug any moment now...

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Marty Major

FLIR Security
04/19/13 06:56pm

...ask the sender of that reply threat if they can do all the Cantonk spam from now on, as they appear to at least be able to (almost) converse in proper English. [I would've changed 'Law' to 'the laws'] : )

John Honovich

IPVM | 07/29/13 03:16am

Update: After a few months of respite from Cantonk spamming, they are back. Alice has repeatedly emailed us, asking most recently, "Could I do your security favour?" in the subject line.

It's unbelievable with these people.

Anthony Brown

07/29/13 01:04pm

After multiple requests to unsubscribe my email address from their spam, I have received several contact requests from Judy from Cantonk via SKYPE, presumably because I have my Skype user name in my email signature. I have since blocked her and reported her user as spam.

John Honovich

IPVM | 07/29/13 03:06pm

Via Skype? That's just aweful! What are they thinking!

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