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Home | Create | Log-in | FAQ | Features | Contact This shortURL is Disabled for involvement in a Phishing attack... The Short URL: http://alturl.com/qctge was generated on our website by a scammer to forward to the URL: https://everfamous.com.hk/ako.php <— Do not visit this URL (it is not to be trusted). We post it here only as a reference for anyone tracking this fraudster. ShortURL.com is a URL shortening service allowing users to make a "Short URL" which forwards to another, often longer, URL. People shorten URLs so they can have a shorter URL to share, track the number of hits it receives, among other uses. In this case, someone abused our service and created a short URL that was forwarding to a website that was "phishing", which means it was impersonating a company such as Paypal, Apple, Google, Comcast, your bank, etc, in attempt to gather sensitive member data including usernames, passwords, and/or credit card information. You may have received an email which appeared to be from one of these providers, notifying you of something such as a problem with your account or an order you made (which you did not make), but the message was sent to you by a scammer hoping you would follow a link in the email and then enter sensitive user information. If you instead are seeing this page on Short URL, that means we have shut down the short URL and you did not get forwarded to the scammer's website. We have been operating for 18 years and pride ourselves on being extremely intolerant to spam and abuse, having pioneered a number of anti-abuse tacktics. If you have used this URL previously and provided logins/passwords or other data-- immediately change your password and other password related data such as password reminder questions with the company that was being impersonated and report to them that your account was compromised. Make sure that your other account info with them is still accurate, such as the email address. Only visit their by typing their domain name (eg. ebay.com, bankofamerica.com etc.) in the browser address bar rather than following any links. Even if you for example just bought something from ebay, you could coincidentally get a fake email that same hour from a scammer saying that you have a purchase issue and to follow a link to rectify it. Always treat any email you receive as a potential impersonator (phishing) email. You can hover your mouse over a link to ensure it goes to the correct domain, but be careful because scammers will created addresses that at first appear to be using an authentic domain, such as secure.ebay.com.anotherdomain.com or alturl.com/1234#www.ebay.com/ Who's responsible for the email/message you received? Most likely the person(s) responsible used a mass mailing program and list to send out thousands of emails (just like spammers do), and you were one of many recipients of the fake email. They know a certain percentage of people will be a user of the service that they are impostering. How did you end up at our site? Among other things, ShortURL is a URL shortening service allowing people to create a shortURL for sharing links by generating a ShortURL that forwards to another, often longer URL. They then pasted the shortURL http://alturl.com/qctge in spam they sent, the message they posted etc. This shortURL may have also been one of many in a string of URLs, the original URL you clicked on may have been another URL shortening service that they set to forward to a shortURL in hope to make it more difficult to track. We've shut down the shortURL they made and thus you are seeing this message. We can't remove you from any lists, we're not the jerks who spammed you... Most likely the spammer, who's already doing something illegal, had no plans to honor your removal request anyway -- and requesting removal may have only verified that your address was active and led to increased future spammings. If they slip through our filters when creating a short URL, we often shut down spammers within seconds or minutes of their spam campaign using our own proprietary anti-spam tools as well as using live feeds from various spam reporting sources. We also receive spam reports from individual recipients at an email which we monitor 24/7. We report spammers to anti-spam data hubs so often their short use of our service leads to their target URLs being banned. If appropriate, we report their spamming to their webhost, ISP, affiliate program, or any other parties in the chain of their spam. We extensively blacklist spammers and do our best to prevent them from abusing our service again. If you received spam on your cell/mobile phone... What probably happened was the spammer sent out spam to random phone numbers @ your provider's text message address. For example, if you have ATT, you can send an email to: Your10DigitPhoneNumber@txt.att.net which will show up on your phone as a text. Similarly with other providers, such as: Your10DigitPhoneNumber@vtext.com for Verizon Wireless, Your10DigitPhoneNumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com (Sprint), Your10DigitPhoneNumber@tmomail.net (T-Mobile). Or they used an actual SMS message to text a long list of mobile numbers. Additionally there's another way that spam can end up on your phone, and that is if you've have ever created an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account, and entered your phone number in the settings for it. If spammers spam your AIM and you are not logged into AIM, then AOL will deliver the message to your phone. The marker for this is that the text will come from the phone number 265-080. Here's how to disable that. If you google search something like: cell phone spam , or, mobile text spam, and the name of your provider e.g ATT, you will come across some helpful articles on how to stop spam to your phone. Such as: http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB115812&cv=820#fbid=kkodtZtiUua http://www.wireless.att.com/support_static_files/KB/svc/documents/1220912515172.Anti-spam%20FAQ%20080707%20Consumer.pdf http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/how-to-block-cellphone-spam/ http://support.verizonwireless.com/faqs/Features%20and%20Optional%20Services/spam_controls.html http://support.sprint.com/support/pages/printTemplate.jsp?articleId=case-gz982789-20120420-003932 Please contact the ShortURL Abuse Department if you have any feedback regarding this page or the spam your received. There's no need to forward us a copy of the spam or report it as we have already discovered the spammer and shut down the link. 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