Posts Tagged ‘spammers’

Online Advance Fee Fraud  (AFF) scams are plentiful and involve several people: the fraudsters themselves, money mules (people who are often duped into commit crimes, as middle men), but think they are earning extra money and then the individuals and businesses who have been defrauded.  Most of the general public who are active online, may […]


This is the third attack on the InBoxRevenge antispam forums within one month. The first DDoS attack which was posted below was on October 28, 2009. Since about 10:45 Eastern Time on Monday, November 16th, 2009, IBR’s forums are once again offline. We will give you more details as they become available. It seems that […]


As of October 31st, 2009, the attackers were DDoSing InBoxRevenge website again. This is where the IBR anti-spam forum is hosted, though the content is definitely offline at this time. Early morning 11/1/09 it was reported by @themarkgiles Twitter user that IBR was under a flood attack from 750 bot IPs at a rate of […]


Inboxrevenge.com, the little forum that creates big headaches for internet criminals, is under another distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. That means hundreds or thousands of zombie computers — computers like yours that have been infected by malware and put under the control of criminals — are all trying to access the site simultaneously. Websites […]


Announcing SiL’s new blog on blogspot about SpamIt, called “SpamIt Must Fall” which seeks to expose info that spam organization behind Canadian Pharmacy. SiL’s other blog, I Kill Spammers, has been exposing spammer operations since 2006. The most recent post as of this posting is about Oprah Winfrey’s company, Harpo Productions going after the spamming […]


Good news for service provider Tata Communications (AS4755) and Spamhaus and some bad news for Tiscali (now Tinet – AS3257). For approximately a month, the large Indian-based provider, Tata Communications, has been still working on its SBL (Spamhaus Block List) by resolving its listings. This means the administrators at Tata Communications have been ending services […]


Yahoo has a big problem with spammers. This abuse of its Yahoo Groups services has been going on for at least since late 2008. Much of this information is already out there for those to read but somewhat scattered, so I am providing links within this blog.  The spammers are selling various pharma spam. My […]


ASN stands for Autonomous System Number. AS or ASN followed by a number is used to identify an autonomous system on the internet by people who manage networks on the Internet. One well-known example of an ASN is AT&T whose is ASN7018. Most people who may be network engineers are concerned with ASNs. Also, netizens […]


Update: SORBS was sold to a new owner at an unspecified price. Details at bottom of post: updated 1st August 2009. On Monday, 22 June, it was announced by Michelle Sullivan, owner of SORBS (IP: 203.15.51.39 at ASN2764 AAPT), on the SORBS homepage that she would shut the blacklisting services down by July 21st. Apparently […]


Gary Warner posted a tweet earlier in the today about his blog: Spam Crisis in China. Please share the link. Blog it up. Let’s get some Change going On. http://garwarner.blogspot.com/ #SpamCrisis Gary Warner posted on his blog under the title Spam Crisis in China about a problem with spam in China as of June 20th, […]