Zahariev spam not done by Zahariev
Remember a long time ago, when I tracked a longtime blogspammer to Bulgaria? Todor and Iavor Zahariev are spammers, as far as I know.
Trouble is, at some point they seemed to switch gears, and started using Moniker and used fake whois data. The rest seemed identical, so I thought it was the Zahariev twins.
Trouble is, I assumed too much. The Moniker whois coupled with support-something e-mail addresses in the whois, and usually US faked names and addresses, is a mark of another spammer. An early trace led to Israel, but I couldn’t make sense of it and discounted it.
Turns out that was the best trace.
shetef.com
Registrant:
Shetef Solutions Ltd.
10 Azmaut Street
Ness-Ziona, ISRAEL 74010
IL
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Dascalu, Yonat ziv@web2000.us
Shetef Solutions Ltd.
21 Tlalim street
Raanana 43568
IL
I received a piece of information recently that I can’t divulge. But it squared completely with this information. For a while I didn’t see any spam from them. I don’t know if they were inactive or just avoided my friends.
But they seem to be back, if the post below is any indication:
May 18th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
[…] Looks like I may have tagged the wrong spammers… Zahariev spam not done by Zahariev - interesting twist and it will be interesting to see what further info may come out. Due in part to the recent fluctuations in Google’s actual indexing of this site, I suggest you give a try to the MSN site search option first. […]
May 25th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
Shetef Solutions make a Windows Spam filter. Seems like they are drumming up their own business.