Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 151.188.247.104]
on November 09, 2007 02:50 AM
If only that were true, Constantine! I wish it were. Unfortunately, my server logs for the past seven months do show lots of Russian IP addresses trying to spam me with "V1agra" ads. This is right along with IP addresses from Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, and Hungary. It seems that Eastern Europe is as much a hotbed for "scam spams" as China and Nigeria are!
You correctly point out that a good chunk of the spam originates from LACNIC. A bunch of WHOIS queries shows that the chief source of spam from LACNIC is currently Brazil.
You also correctly point out that a lot of the spam is from the United States. I would add Canada to that list. That's why I also do my sleuthwork and find the IP ranges that Verizon, Comcast, Quest, Rogers, etc. use for their dynamic IP assignments. These are automatically blacklisted, since home broadband users with dynamic IP addresses don't typically run Internet mail servers. :-)
HOTMAIL ALERT: I have also been getting a lot of spam from Microsoft's HotMail in the last few months. After several notices to them, it still didn't stop. Therefore, MS HotMail is now also on my private blacklist (65.54.0.0/16). Doggone shame. Yahoo currently seems to be better with that, from what I can see.
So, it's not just the Russians. Far from it. And my blacklist has grown since I first wrote the article
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Re: unverified claims about origins of spam
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 151.188.247.104] on November 09, 2007 02:50 AMIf only that were true, Constantine! I wish it were. Unfortunately, my server logs for the past seven months do show lots of Russian IP addresses trying to spam me with "V1agra" ads. This is right along with IP addresses from Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, and Hungary. It seems that Eastern Europe is as much a hotbed for "scam spams" as China and Nigeria are!
You correctly point out that a good chunk of the spam originates from LACNIC. A bunch of WHOIS queries shows that the chief source of spam from LACNIC is currently Brazil.
You also correctly point out that a lot of the spam is from the United States. I would add Canada to that list. That's why I also do my sleuthwork and find the IP ranges that Verizon, Comcast, Quest, Rogers, etc. use for their dynamic IP assignments. These are automatically blacklisted, since home broadband users with dynamic IP addresses don't typically run Internet mail servers. :-)
HOTMAIL ALERT: I have also been getting a lot of spam from Microsoft's HotMail in the last few months. After several notices to them, it still didn't stop. Therefore, MS HotMail is now also on my private blacklist (65.54.0.0/16). Doggone shame. Yahoo currently seems to be better with that, from what I can see.
So, it's not just the Russians. Far from it. And my blacklist has grown since I first wrote the article
--TP
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