Spamblog links
I’ve had requests for links to blogs on my blogroll. That thing is hopelessly out of date. But since I’m so slow, I’ve opened up another place for you guys to add your links, in waiting for a link on the blogroll.
This one is open for blogs dealing with e-mail spam as well. I recently got a writeup on Emailbattles, which seems associated with Trimmail. I get referrers from both places these days.
I’m sure there are more blogs out there. Self serve, guys! Spam will of course be removed by yours truly and the other sysops (thanks, guys!).
August 28th, 2005 at 5:56 am
I think I posted in the wrong (old/archive) place so I’m sorry if this is duplicated in wrong place again but I hope to get some insight/help. thanks.
hi: i’m new to all this stuff, and I am not a techie — just have a very basic understanding of this stuff (still learning) so i hope this isn’t too much of a stupid newbie question, but …. what are the best tools online for de-obfuscating URLS/DNS settings, email headers, etc and ultimately finding out who really owns a website or domain name, server, site, etc? How do you get to the root of these things? I just came across this great blog by accident and I would really like to know better how to track these creeps down who run a lot of these fly-by-night sites and operations, not just the spam, but that too, so they can be reported, identified, shared with anti-spam sites, etc.
I noticed that there are sites that host sites that host sites like leap-frog or hop-scotch or something. They start at one place and end at an entirely different but are linked somehow, but I don’t know if I’m checking the right information or using the right tools. I would really appreciate feedback on the best tools and places to use (and where / how to understand all the terms and the tricks I’m missing). I have been using Whois.sc and DNSstuff.com to look up these jerks. Where else do I need to look and to learn?
Thank you so much.
Moderator: Removed the URL. Too commercial
August 28th, 2005 at 9:15 am
I use built-in *nix whois, www.ripe.net, arin.net, apnic.net, lacnic.net. The spamcop.net is really cool stuff to look at the mail headers. The needed info is built from scratch - sometimes I enter spammers site just to look at the source code and HTTP headers and compare with other spammer’s sites - the light of inwention comes to them every half year (or not much often) so it’s easy to compare the tricks they use.
If you have all the evidence - for egzample 100 domain names and their IP’s (much likely all in /24 netblock) - then it’s time to notify search engine guys. After that find yourself a cozy place and watch their PR goes to zero.
Lately I have figured, that spammers use open-proxys and therefore they can be redirected to somewhere else (using PHP header(’Location: xxx’); ) - a large file or their ISP home page will be sufficient - just grep your log files and search for IP’s and referrer headers, fill a database with them and search with every request made to your guestbook/wiki/stats scripts.
Oh. BTW: Dear spammers, please figure out some new tricks, It’s about time for me to get bored…
August 28th, 2005 at 1:21 pm
The neatest tricks are in the source code, and you need a text browser to see’em.