The Mike Files

This morning, I received an email thru my Gmail account about Google Map Earth which I need to click for my email address confirmation. See below.

from Map Contacts contact@xinfonews.com
to michael {dot} mondragon {at} gmail {dot} com
date Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:03 AM
subject Download New Map Contacts for Google Earth

View your Friends & Family on Google Earth – Also explore the earth’s most viewed locations

Google Earth is a Free software which allows you to view the world from the comfort of your PC. There is now a great new add-on for Google Earth which allows you to easily map all your contacts.

Your Earth Code: 6208
http://xinfonews.com/re.php?lnk=1203401661&e=michael {dot} mondragon {at} gmail {dot} com

This great new feature allows you to display your friends and family on Google Earth and view their locations and surrounding areas.

Your Earth Code: 6208
http://xinfonews.com/re.php?lnk=1203401661&e=michael {dot} mondragon {at} gmail {dot} com

- Easily add friends and family to your Google Earth
- Navigate and see the best locations earth has to offer
- Display your friends and family on the map for easy viewing

Once you receive this software be prepared to fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and even explore galaxies in the sky.

Your Earth Code: 6208
http://xinfonews.com/re.php?lnk=1203401661&e=michael {dot} mondragon {at} gmail {dot} com

Best Regards,

Larry Walters
Map Contacts for Earth

You will not get anymore of our emails if you go here

http://xinfonews.com/

or write to:

Plaza Neptuno, local #7
Via ricardo J Alfaro, Tumba Muerto
Panama Ciudad
Republica de Panama

Actually, I did not subscribe on any mailing list, so how come that they know my email address then? Yes this is possible through some the use of spam software, web crawling (spiders) and email harvesting/random-guessin which I will try to create a separate post for this.

Anyway, I received this kind of spam mails even before, it just that I just got the time to post it here. Spammer is using related topic/information to lure users (including me of course) that the site and its content is legitimate (though the site is legitimate, of course), I still don’t know what or where will they use my email account – or probably they will sell it to any third parties. Whatever there reason is, it is annoying.