If you click this, you can have the group shut down.

In addition, I am logging groups advertised by spam seen in my spam feed. I report them to a contact inside Google in bulk.

http://groups.google.com/group/i5o2guzqn GOOGLE SPAM

From Barbara Williams Fri Mar 6 01:35:28 2009
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Cilais Soft Tabs. Good for you. Good for her.

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You should go back to your source and ask him what bank the funds have been transferred to here in the USA. Do you have a Owners Funds Rights Certificate? If not can he get it for you. Do you have an anti-terrorist certificate in your possession? These are certificates that will be demanded here in the USA for any bank to make the transfer to your account. Remember these are large sums of money. You will need these proofs. These certificates are expensive. he should know that you will need them to have funds transferred to your bank —here or not. I am not aware the funds are here but they may be. If I remember the transfer is from HSBC. I will further contact to see if the funds are actually here in the USA.

Has your counterpart, Mr. Jonathan, put up any funds during this process? Or only you!

I will double check everything in the office Monday morning.

Have a blessed weekend

With regards,

George Hart
Financial Advocate/Counselor
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— On Sat, 12/13/08, llfire9fly6@aol.com wrote:

From: llfire9fly6@aol.com
Subject: (no subject)
To: gfhart45@yahoo.com
Date: Saturday, December 13, 2008, 5:36 AM

MR HART:

I JUST GOT AN E-MAIL; FROM BARISTER JONATHAN NORRIS AND I AM GOING TO FORWARD TO YOU. HE SAYS THE MONEY IS HERE IN THE STATES AND NOW I AM WONDERING WHAT IS GOING ON. LET ME KNOW OKAY, I AM TAKING YOUR WORD FOR IT AND NOT WHAT HE SAYS.

MR SHEEHAN

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Attn: Mr. Lloyd Sheehan

Sir

Go ahead and contact Mr John West today, he will loan the money to you. I have finalized and concluded all the necessary arrangement for him Mr John West the financier to give you the US$50,000 so that you can send it to our bank, for our bank to release the money into your account. Therefore, go ahead and contact him so that he could advance the loan to you, tell him to raise the sum of US$50,000 for you which you will use to claim your money from HSBC Bank London

His contact details are as below.

NAME: MR. JOHN WEST

TEL: 1 6463230811

E-MAIL ADDRESS: johnwestconsult@yahoo.com

Contact him and get back to me with your discussion with him

Please try and contact Mr. John West today,

Thanks

Dr Herman Orrin

N/B: I am really sorry for all the difficulties you have suffered so far in the cost of receiving your fund, I promise you it will never happen again.

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If they go to the help link on Google Groups and look it up, Google never tells them how to report this case. Google abuse procedures mention about how to report Google Groups postings or documents, but not a group as a whole (including its homepage), which is what the spammers take advantage of.

The help system never mentions about abuse@google.com at all when talking about Google Groups. So how are people going to get those spam pages taken down?

Google generally encourages people to use its web forms for abuse reporting instead of abuse@google.com and I can see why: A web form generally gives them more focused machine-readable information, which means quicker, less labour-intensive abuse handling. For example, they can make sure to always get a URL. But in this case there *is* no form and the spam falls between the cracks.

What this means in practice is that spamvertised groups created by the spammers are likely to survive for weeks. I looked through a set of recent spam sample of spams abusing Google Groups stretching back about four weeks. I found that every single link in those spams still worked up to almost a month later.