spammers beware, cos I get bored sometimes :)
Well I was asked to put this link on our links page but as we haven't got one of those I thought it best in the lounge here.
Hotel Price Finder
So how did I get to hear of this company and why am I posting it here, well it was actually this member jkrupp yes you can see he only has one post but cant find it cos it's in our trash can, yep at first we considered it spam and trashed it, but anyway we thought it best to contact the company and ask if they wanted to advertise with us and we mentioned about the spam, they didn't want to advertise with us and catergoricaly stated they were against spam, hell thats fair enough, good on them, freedom of choice and all that, then I saw the same spam on another forum with the same user name, and here is the spiel.
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Hi All,
I am always looking for the best deal on hotels. I recently discovered a great new and simple website that makes sure I get the best price...
www.hotelpricefinder.com
Hotel Price Finder
It searches over 28 different hotel sites (including Asia Rooms, HotelClub, RatesToGo) in one go and then lists them in order of price. You can then click through to book with the hotel site direct.
Great time saver! Hope you find it useful too.
Hey thats the same as was spammed on here I thought to myself, I am really clever like that cos most people don't bother going to the effort of proper sentences and paragraphs and stuff like that, so guess what i did next? can you guess?
Yes I went to my friend Mr Google, and I asked Mr Google to find me jkrupp@ Mr Google told me there was 718 entries for that question.
Now these lot are all forums that jkrupp has made the same post on about hotel finder does 28 blah blahs etc etc.
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Xinjiang/Gansu accommodation recommendations - Travel Q&A - China Travel Community
The Australian Frequent Flyer Online Community - Search Results
ITYT Travel Forums - Search Results
Search, Discussion Forum, The Netherlands, Holland, Expatica
The Gay Scene - Australia, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Gay Dance Music Clubs, Nightclubs, Events, Parties, Photos, Forums, DJs, Performers, Downloads and News - Search Results
Search
www.hotelpricefinder.com - Find the best hotel price from 28 hotel sites - TravelPodium - Travel Discussion Forums
Now thats just from the first 10 results of google, also on that page is an entry for thaivisa but for some unknown reason he has been banned from there and his posts deleted, lets move onto page 2 of google for the next 10 results.
There are several others on page 2 of Mr Google he has joined but they wont let you do a search on members post unless you join.
Every single one of these forums has either 1 or 2 posts by jkrupp and are exactly the same, now jkrupp is in Thailand going by his ip, cant imagine anyone using a Thai proxy to pretend to be in Thailand, so lets do a whois.
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (Internet Domain Name Registration, Domain Transfers. Your domain name search starts here.)
Domain Name: HOTELPRICEFINDER.COM
Created on: 13-Jun-07
Expires on: 13-Jun-08
Last Updated on: 13-Jun-07
hmmm, new website and whois hidden :( , now what do we have here?
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Title: Re: Still happening: Mailings contain errant ! characters.
Post by: jkrupp on May 23, 2007, 04:15:56 PM
I have this problem too. I still don't know how to fix it. ! just appear at random in the content. I have checked the HTML code which is fine.
Any help?
Somebody setting up a website?
Anyway it appears that Jkrupp does change his spiel on occasions.
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I love to go to Disneyland with the kids. I always want to get the best price on hotels, so I use Hotel Price Finder
Find the best price from 28 hotel sites - Hotel Price Finder. It finds the best price from 28 hotel sites and lists them in order. Then I can click through to the hotel site to book direct.
Hope you enjoy your holiday too and get the best price on your hotel too.
Well I only bothered getting to page 7 of Mr Google and it is mainly jkrupp and his spam.
So lets have a look at his spam again.
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I recently discovered a great new and simple website that makes sure I get the best price...
Now the odds are he only recently discovered that website as it has been online for less than 20 days and he has spent God knows how many of those days joining forums to spam them, just wonder how many great deals he has had out of them in the last 20 days.