Anyone else getting spammed by some idiot Larry Kirk @ amazing woodworking plans

[Brian Ashton]

I can confirm he reads mail from that inbox

[Matt Day]

You got a response from him? Did you get off his spam lists? You should tell him about the 4 page thread of people hating on him.

I reported him to the ftc.

[Jessica Pierce-LaRose]

Huh. This sounds like same bozo that keeps spamming me on Twitter.

[Erik Loza]

It must be going around. Not necessarily this guy but I think it's all connected. I've been getting a ton of spam emails in my SCM Group account and their IT guy just sent out an email saying that the whole group has been bombarded recently by spammers.

Erik

[Greg R Bradley]

You get a few SPAM emails and get upset. Here is a bit of reality with a 12 month report for a small business with 3 email addresses. Actually it is really for 2 as about 1% of that is for one of them. Note the 72K SPAM exceed the (mostly) valid emails and unsure emails combined. Also note the 435 virii.

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You can see from the 83 messages that were on the Blacklist, that we feel that is a waste of time unless they are coming from semi-legitimate sources where you just don't want to see them.

[Brian Ashton]

It's probably not his real name but he's a scumbag within our ranks (not sawmill creek but a woodworker none the less I suspect). What I'm really interested in, and the real point of this thread, is does anyone know him.

[Matt Day]

We all know there are all kinds of SPAM emails out there, but being woodworkers a woodworking specific spam email really hits a nerve.

I think the conversation here should be limited to the one in question.

[Pat Barry]

Hes probably some poor schmuck just trying to feed his kids by selling amazing woodworking plans Brian. Live and let live.

[Mike Henderson]

Hes probably some poor schmuck just trying to feed his kids by selling amazing woodworking plans Brian. Live and let live.

I haven't looked at his plans but when I looked at previous similar offers, the plans were "stolen" from woodworking magazines and other copyrighted sources. I would think it would be a lot of work to produce that many "original" plans (meaning not stepping on someone's copyright).

If you did produce that many original plans, you'd surely want to be paid for them. I haven't looked into his "offer" but I doubt if you'd even send the spam unless there was a way to make money on it - whether it was original plans or stolen plans.

Mike

[Jeffrey Stowell]

If you notice in "his" spammy emails, he lists his website. (I won't list it here, no sense generating traffic for a spammer.) However, on his "about" page they display this photo (screen grab by me):
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However, I believe this image was stolen from a photography business in Seattle named Sash. The actual gentleman in the image is Dennis Bogue: http://sashphotography.com/dennis-bo...ess-headshots/

There is no Larry Kirk. (No surprise)

[Pat Barry]

If you notice in "his" spammy emails, he lists his website. (I won't list it here, no sense generating traffic for a spammer.) However, on his "about" page they display this photo (screen grab by me):
not-larry.png

However, I believe this image was stolen from a photography business in Seattle named Sash. The actual gentleman in the image is Dennis Bogue: http://sashphotography.com/dennis-bo...ess-headshots/

There is no Larry Kirk. (No surprise)

Of course Larry Kirk might be a pseudonym for Dennis Boque or maybe Dennis Boque is Larry Kirk's pseudonym?

[Greg R Bradley]

It is a sad day in the history of the web that a nerd that lives in his mother's basement in the UK can steal a bunch of others plans, steal a picture of a woodworker off a photographer's website, create a website of complete BS (aren't they all?), fool a bunch of people that really should stay off the web, and get a few people all worked up over a few SPAM emails when 70% of the world's email traffic is SPAM.

[Dave Arnett]

I get them 2-3 times a week. I simply delete them with all of the rest of the spam. No muss - No fuss!

I have better things to do than try to "get back at him".

[Don Emmerling]

I too have been getting them. Have just been deleting them but do wonder how they are getting through.

[Dennis Peacock]

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