Digging through my email, I discovered this fascinating note. From this address. "Arthur Marin" <ujswnjs@boulangerairbru.com> My curiosity aroused, not by the message itself, but how I got it and where it came from (miraculously, I don't get that much spam, at least not from places I haven't given my spam address to), I decided to experiment. Whois.net provided this fascinating data http://tools.whois.net/index.php?fuseaction=whois.whoisbyipresults while goggling the email address directed me here http://www.projecthoneypot.org/i_320fbf4da1c7efaf06963f4c41d86704#comments Goggling the address itself turned up nothing, and I don't care to click the link to find out that way. Any other suggestions as to how to trace where my paths crossed with this spammer? Just as a fun little project, I thought.
ujswnjs@boulangerairbru.com won't be the real address. Guaranteed that will be faked. Check the headers of the email to see which mailserver sent the message. That will get you closer, assuming it's not just an open relay. And if it really is the spammer's server. It actually isn't. It's some chump who makes $0.001 sending an email. The real spambarons just contract the jobs out to these clowns. And it is still most likely just a compromised PC in some part of a bot-net.
I'm curious what's on the site. Probably ads / malware, but does anyone have a safe platform to take a look. For that matter, if you ran a linux distro from a live CD, would that be a potential route of infection? It would be nice to be able to try some of these inherently unsafe things
I actually just received my first official piece of Spam email (that I didn't relate or get myself into). I could tell because the email msg just contained all variations in the alphabet they could come up with eg. abc abcd abcde@hotmail.com, whatever. I think 75percent of the time people get spam from porn sites and very very rarely spam bots.
Maybe the sites down becuase the US government found out about the secret organization and shut them down An organization so secret they want you to tell everyone ... nice
I don't know, because then I'd be 6'5", which is getting on for being freakishly tall, none of my clothes would fit so I'd have to get all new clothes, and I'd have to move the car seat even further back... So, no, you keep your 3". I'm quite happy being 6'2"
I did the whois, and it told me it was an Australian address, so I did the whois on the "south pacific database" that was in the comment, and it came up with a different address... in Korea... So then I did a search in the Korean database: Code: KRNIC is not an ISP but a National Internet Registry similar to APNIC. The following is organization information that is using the IPv4 address. IPv4 Address : 211.172.232.0-211.172.232.255 Network Name : HANNET-INFRA Connect ISP Name : KOREACOMPUTERIDC Connect Date : 20001031 Registration Date : 20031021 Publishes : Y [ Organization Information ] Organization ID : ORG121372 Org Name : KOREA COMPUTER IDC Address : Sindaebang-dong Dongjak-gu Seoul Detail Address : 295-70 Zip Code : 156-010 [ Technical Contact Information ] Name : Sung-Kwan Yoon Org Name : KOREA COMPUTER IDC Address : Sindaebang-dong Dongjak-gu Seoul Detail Address : 295-70 Zip Code : 156-010 Phone : +82-2-829-3063 E-Mail : skyun@hannetidc.com
How did you figure that one out? It is well documented how you get spam from bots and spiders (every openly-published email address on any of my sites is swamped within 3 months of posting), yet I can't see a way of getting spam from viewing porn sites. Sure if you sign up for anything, you are going to get hammered. You are more at risk from viruses and trojans, but that is a different issue. However, in the interests of fairness I shall investigate the spam threats caused by clam-lappers.com when I get home tonight.
I've had my hotmail address since I was in Uni (about 10 years ago) and never got any spam until a couple of months ago. I now get about 3-5 a day, all in Japanese for some reason.
lol, got a load of blokes add me on MSN t'other day trying to chat me up...........said they got my address from a gay chatroom. moral of this story dont **** anyone off that happens to have your email address.......
