Re: Sudden Spam Epedemic

Neil Franklin <nei...@franklin.ch.remove> wrote in message
news:6uw...@chonsp.franklin.ch...
> "Stuart Moore" <stu...@bigfoot.com> writes:
>
> > On my NG feed, we've just received 3 cable box descrambler plans and one
> > pornographic binary - is everyone seeing this or are the rest of you lucky
> > enough to have decent filters?
>
> They also arrive here (at least the 3 cable TV ones).
>

I got 4, one of which contained 2 small jpgs, perhaps your provider blocks
binarys.

>
> > Anything we can do about it?
>
> Most spammers:
>
> Identify the providers of:
>
> - their net access (see the NNTP-Posting-Host: line)

Constant domein for all 4: ip113.orlando14.fl.pub-ip.psi.net for one and
ip38.orlando14.fl.pub-ip.psi.net for the other 3; have forwarded to
abu...@psi.net

> - their usenet access (see the tail of the Path: line)

All gone through tiac.net for me; 2 seemed to originate there, 2 from german
domains. These 2 and one that does originate from tiac.net have:
!news-feed1.tiac.net.MISMATCH
So I'm guessing someone could have tried to fake this, and forwarded them to
tiac.net

>
> This particular cable TV spammer:
>
> He has no mail box and no web site and treats net access as "hit and
> run". So the best is to forward them to uc...@ftc.gov so that they
> follow up the phone numbers and postal mail boxes to get him.

How do you know he treats net access as hit and run?

>
> Note: this is a government agancy mail box (federal trade commission),
> so the more people that complain of an particular spammer, the more
> likely they are going to take this particular spammer serious. That is
> also why you should not distract them with spams where you can go to
> the providers.
>
> Alternatively if you are in Florida: follow up the postal address and
> find out if local law enables you to privately sue him (for wasting
> you resources, see also anti FAX spam laws).

Sorry, I'm in the UK. Although that said, I might try to sue him from here; I'll
get him for not making his mind up about the US President at the same time too
;-) (sorry couldn't resist it)

Hope this isn't to OT for some people, but given the Commodore thread I doubt
anything could be ;-)

Stuart

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