I had a rash of comment spam on annelisabeth from a spammer using subdomains on v3.com’s service. So like any responsible spam hunter, I went in search of an abuse address.

None could be found on their website. There was no way to contact them unless you were a customer, or wanted to contact them for a sales question. And when I broke down and used that sales option (for lack of a better way), the script DOESN’T WORK! It leads to answerhelp.com, and times out.

There IS an abuse form on FortuneCity, but few would go far enough to find it:

http://www.fortunecity.com/contact-abuse.shtml

Wouldn’t you know, it times out too. OK, here’s what I was planning on sending them, verbatim:

There’s no abuse contact anywhere on the v3.com site, and it’s sorely needed, since spammers use lots of subdomains from your service (seeing as v3.com is your service).

Here’s an example:

You need to remove ALL subdomains currently redirecting to URL’s starting with:
http://www.searchmeup.com/search.php?aid=34671

Please get back to me on this. I think it’s scandalous that there’s no easy way to report spammer sites.

I got ticked off enough I reported on it:
http://spamhuntress.com/2005/10/08/fortunecity-ignorous-about-spam/

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In the post below I was talking about the ESThost spambot. That spammer uses v3.com subdomains, and I’ve asked FortuneCity to deactivate ALL subdomains redirecting to that affiliate URL… Let’s see if they wake up.

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