Comments on: How I tracked down a spammer http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:43:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Vasilij http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-2927 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:15:59 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-2927 I yet believe that it must be the reason for these spammers to keep on bombing our sites with BS. And if it is not material reasons, what are their might be? Vasilij, An EU journalist. I yet believe that it must be the reason for these spammers to keep on bombing our sites with BS. And if it is not material reasons, what are their might be?

Vasilij,
An EU journalist.

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]]> by: Spam Huntress » Blog Archive » A Bulgarian thinks I made it up http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-1044 Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:08:34 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-1044 [...] t spamware A Bulgarian thinks I made it up I got a comment on my How I tracked down a spammer post today: # Tony (Bulgarian) Says: July 19th, [...] […] t spamware A Bulgarian thinks I made it up I got a comment on my How I tracked down a spammer post today: # Tony (Bulgarian) Says: July 19th, […]

]]> by: Administrator http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-1043 Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:04:43 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-1043 Well, Tony, I guess it's you who don't understand spam tracking. Forget what you learned about tracking mail spammers. Linkspammers are a different breed entirely. Currently their favored method is using a server they lease or colocate as their spambot. Most of them don't even layer a proxy on top of that spambot. Why? Because webhosts don't understand linkspam, and some of the big colocation/leasing facilities are spam supporters when it comes to linkspam. Also, while linkspammers learn, they often use their own ISP connections when spamming. I stand by my conclusions. And no, I don't think Bulgarians are all spammers. In fact, there are extremely few Bulgarian spammers. Most are Russians... Well, Tony, I guess it’s you who don’t understand spam tracking.

Forget what you learned about tracking mail spammers. Linkspammers are a different breed entirely. Currently their favored method is using a server they lease or colocate as their spambot. Most of them don’t even layer a proxy on top of that spambot.

Why? Because webhosts don’t understand linkspam, and some of the big colocation/leasing facilities are spam supporters when it comes to linkspam.

Also, while linkspammers learn, they often use their own ISP connections when spamming.

I stand by my conclusions. And no, I don’t think Bulgarians are all spammers. In fact, there are extremely few Bulgarian spammers. Most are Russians…

]]> by: Tony (Bulgarian) http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-1042 Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:34:08 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-1042 Like many others I came to this site googling for something containing "bulgarian"... After reading the way you track spammers, I can only say: Guys, what a shame! You absolutelly do not know and do not undersrtand the spamming techniques and still you have the bravery of labeling the whole Bulgarian nation as spammers! Let me give you some explanations: - no spammer uses its own IP address - all spammers use forged IP addresses - the IP addresses the spammers use are usually IPs of vulnerable un-pached servers and workstations on the internet, thus allowing the spammer to use it. Well, let me ask you some questions: - how exactly you are tracking a forged IP address? If you have a real answer for this, you can become very rich by pattenting this, your first client will be FBI... Best (Bulgarian) regards... Like many others I came to this site googling for something containing “bulgarian”…

After reading the way you track spammers, I can only say:
Guys, what a shame! You absolutelly do not know and do not undersrtand the spamming techniques and still you have the bravery of labeling the whole Bulgarian nation as spammers!

Let me give you some explanations:
- no spammer uses its own IP address
- all spammers use forged IP addresses
- the IP addresses the spammers use are usually IPs of vulnerable un-pached servers and workstations on the internet, thus allowing the spammer to use it.

Well, let me ask you some questions:
- how exactly you are tracking a forged IP address? If you have a real answer for this, you can become very rich by pattenting this, your first client will be FBI…

Best (Bulgarian) regards…

]]> by: Administrator http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-924 Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:54:19 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-924 I sent you an e-mail to the dir address, with the MSN messenger details. I sent you an e-mail to the dir address, with the MSN messenger details.

]]> by: Vesselin http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-923 Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:45:34 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-923 i want to speak with you but those posts are kind of slow, got icq or something like it ? i want to speak with you but those posts are kind of slow, got icq or something like it ?

]]> by: Vesselin http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-922 Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:42:45 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-922 kewl :) kewl :)

]]> by: Vesselin http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-921 Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:36:16 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-921 ok, it may be serbian or macedonian but i can translate those as well... those are very common. email me at slmr at dir dot bg or slmr at abv dot bg cause i don't use slaymer at netbg dot com so often Moderator: I munged the addresses. Harvesters come through here now and then... ok, it may be serbian or macedonian but i can translate those as well… those are very common.

email me at slmr at dir dot bg or slmr at abv dot bg cause i don’t use slaymer at netbg dot com so often

Moderator: I munged the addresses. Harvesters come through here now and then…

]]> by: Administrator http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-920 Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:30:09 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/06/how-i-tracked-down-a-spammer/#comment-920 Nothing right now. I'll e-mail you next time I come across something that looks like Russian and isn't. Usually that happens when I chase spammers. I remember one time I saw something that might have been Bulgarian, connected somehow with a spammer. But it may have been another language. Hard for me to know, unless the webpage makes it obvious. Nothing right now. I’ll e-mail you next time I come across something that looks like Russian and isn’t. Usually that happens when I chase spammers. I remember one time I saw something that might have been Bulgarian, connected somehow with a spammer. But it may have been another language. Hard for me to know, unless the webpage makes it obvious.

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