They seem to crawl out of every nook and cranny of the smelly internet. Like cockroaches, the scammers and spammers emerge after dark to attack you and your machine or website. Any computer or site, of any kind and couleur.
Phishing, code injection, outright fraud, or blocking your work. Whatever dumb fancy these guys like to follow.
We get our fair share of this kind of miscellaneous bullshit, too. You know, from creatures that won’t stick to rulez or guidelines. And as we have fun writing stuff, the RMR deck crew decided to create a pillory.
So that all those dumb fucks can showcase their highly illegal wares. On a fully indexed page, no less. Accessible by the public at large. Including enforcement agencies, and whoever else is curious enough to browse through here.
Cool, huh? Yeah, we think so, too. RMR strikes back, that kind of thing. The attack of the Death Star all over again, have Darth Vader on your side for once. But let’s not get carried away and instead hack away at all those undesired findings.
And here’s a fun fact: Since we started this page, the scammers and spammers dwindled to a wee trickle. Looks like word got out that this page is – indeed – indexed. They don’t seem to like us very much anymore.
Sad.
Meanwhile, here are some of our findings. Not all of them, mind you, we got more pressing things to do.
April 2025
23 April 2025 – The strange case of one Dakarai Larriett of Alabama
- Illegal: For sure under US law.
- Vector: Email
Strange birdies take an interest in the RMR zine. So, here’s to Dakarai Larriett, a US Senate candidate from Alabama, of all places. A man running a bad campaign with awful messaging galore. But we don’t really care about politics over here. What’s worse, however, is the fact that the campaign is soliciting monies from non-US entities. And that’s illegal in the US, as per the FEC.1 Or whatever skeleton is left over after Trump’s attack on this institution. Top management @ RMR tried to tell them. But we were soundly ignored.
Thus, out the door go our good manners, and Dr. Daktari here is thereby sent to the RMR Pillory to reflect on his crimes. You see, the whole world is aware that US politicians are not very bright and inherently corrupt. Just don’t showcase it so openly, will ya? As to this scam, we liked the idea to email the communication to our fans and friends. Perhaps, we should include the FEC as well?
You have been warned.
7 April 2025 – Backlink Scam
- Illegal: If they deliver as promised, no. Spoiler, they won’t.
- Vector: Email
We don’t come to this page often, but when we do, it’s worth it. This one is a classic, yet another one who hasn’t read our dire warnings on linking schemes available on the zine. Something called Ghazi Xavi at ghazixavi01@gmail.com contacted the zine for paid posts to be placed on high authority websites. For a stiff fee, I reckon. Already that action would warrant them a visit for eternity to our local oubliette.
But it gets better. The Happy Hours Menu site good ol’ Xavi or Ghazi or whatever is boasting is a funny animal as well. Happy hour, the delight after a hefty workday. Right? Well, once you hit the site, you get greeted by a selection of porta-potties and a bunch of other themes. None of which really talk about drinks and tapas. Once you hit the contact section, it directs you to an email box hosted by something called Linkexplore [dot] com, a site that Scamdoc slams with a trust score of 8%.
So, we got ourselves a brazen double whammy. Xavi Ghazi or whatever in cahoots with the owner of Linkexplore, incidentally based in India. Where else, right? So, RMR’s hard-earned dollars would disappear into an Indian black hole. Next thing we know and some fuckwits from an Indian call center ask us to provide gift cards. And we’ll never see our money or article ever again.
Oh, and feel free to contact Ghazi whenever you have a minute. And send it our angry regards.
7 April 2025 – Business Collaboration Scam
- Illegal: Once your money disappears into the void, it will be.
- Vector: Email
Not sure what these guys are up to. But it surely isn’t Heavy Music. This more sounds like a drug deal in the making. And that would make some faint sense, as there indeed are quite a few addle-brained individuals in rock and metal on an extended drug cure.
Oh, and big laughter erupted at the mention of a “…leading pharmaceutical company…” needing RMR’s assistance in the “…supplying of Raw Material…” to meet their goals. Come again? Are you telling me them mighty container ships and big bad trucks all broke down? Sounds like the RMR folks would find themselves muling shit from one concert to the other. Summin’ like that.
Oh, and when we tried to google ‘xamporter’, the mightiest search engine in the big wild world was at a loss. And that ain’t something we’ve seen too often. So, I guess that proves our point here.
Nothing good will ever emerge from this kind of deal. Keep out!
March 2024
17 March 2024 – Fake Meta Warning
- Illegal: Yeah, impersonating another company is usually on the illegal side.
- Vector: Email
Yes, the notorious RMR channel is famous for all that illegal activity. This is such a dangerous outfit, it must be punished by da mighty forces of the Zuckerman. Only, I doubt that alienxcasper@hotmail.com really is part of that august organization. So, let’s all send a few emails to this specific Casper of Scam Nirvana. Oh, you can also send more, if you so desire. They deserve it.
Should we report them instead to FB? Perhaps, time will tell.
11 March 2024 – The Buginator Scheme
- Illegal: Not yet. They’ll ask nicely first. But later definitely.
- Vector: Email
I always love this ‘undisclosed recipients’ thing reaching us from the outer space realms of one unknown Gmail account. No doubt Google devoutly wishes to kill its own creation. It has become a haven of stupidity and scams. So, here’s Isaac no. 8. The man of the scam telling us we have bugs on the site. Funky kinda guy or gal, it won’t tell us what it is. The scam? Ask for money upfront, then disappear. They could tell you first of course, but then they would have to kill you, like.
But here’s a bit of truth for ya, Isaac, ma man. Once we received this one, there indeed was a bug on our site. But hey, contained and destroyed, not to be seen again. So, well spotted, Elvin, the brave. Oh, and no money for you. We got nothing to give, poor like church mice, we are. And have a care, we’re also angry. So, don’t come back.
February 2024
29 February 2024 – Increase Audience Scam – CBD Global
- Illegal: Not yet.
- Vector: Email
Flattery won’t work. Yet another unknown Jessica writing to us for some “…guest post…” that only requires a “…do-follow link…”. These people will never learn. Read our documentation first, it might help. Unless you’re a bot of course.
The Olde Footnote!
- The Federal Election Commission.-↩