Doug Petrie’s domains in spamrun
Update October 24, 2006: Doug says he never sent me those spam e-mails (duh!), so I should remove the whois info.
I’ve sent him a definition of comment spam, and asked him to tell me if he comment spammed, or if he hired someone to do SEO. We’ll see what he answers, and then I’ll see what I’ll do. Oh, and I sent him 96 pieces of spam involving his domains in a text file, so he’ll see exactly what I’m talking about.
Eh, I just realized he’ll have to come up with a heck of a good story. I checked his e-mail headers. He sent that e-mail from the same IP as the spam came from!!!!!!!
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Doug Petrie is known as a TV writer. But there’s another Doug Petrie, whose main claim to fame is a string of “free articles” on payday loans.
Today I got an incessant stream of comment spam from 69.116.161.80 (dyn.optonline.net)
The domains spamvertized belong to
Petrie, Doug conquerer@zerogravitycomputing.com
354 State Street
Suite 105
Hackensack, New Jersey 07601
United States
(201) 487-4424 Fax — (201) 487-4423
zerogravitycomputing.com belongs to the same guy:
petrie, doug djpzero@AOL.COM
zero gravity computing
464 CENTRAL AVE
CARLSTADT, NJ 07072-1518
US
201-896-9330
So, is Doug a spammer? Not sure…
What I can tell you, is that the domains in that spam are spread out over a lot of IP addresses. That’s a technique I’ve seen employed by another US spammer very recently. It could be an attempt to minimize all domains getting blacklisted, because of being in a bad neighborhood? Doesn’t really help if you spam them all in one comment, though… The only other reason would have to be if the owner expected a lot of traffic. But chances are these domains aren’t spread over as many servers as IP addresses…
Here’s the list of domains with IP addresses:
Name: debtconsolidationcounseling.biz
Address: 64.246.44.185
Name: debtconsolidationhomeequityloan.net
Address: 216.75.24.138
Name: debtconsolidationinformation.biz
Address: 216.75.24.136
Name: debtconsolidationloanonline.us
Address: 216.75.24.132
Name: debtconsolidationmortgageloan.us
Address: 216.75.24.131
Name: debtconsolidationorganization.biz
Address: 216.75.63.190
Name: debtconsolidationorganization.net
Address: 216.75.63.188
Name: debtconsolidationsecuredloan.biz
Address: 216.75.24.156
Name: debtconsolidationsecuredloan.net
Address: 216.75.24.155
Name: debtconsolidationsecuredloan.us
Address: 216.75.24.154
Name: debtconsolidationsolution.biz
Address: 216.75.24.153
Name: delawaredebtconsolidation.us
Address: 216.75.24.152
Name: freecreditcarddebtconsolidation.net
Address: 216.75.24.151
Name: freecreditcarddebtconsolidation.us
Address: 216.75.24.150
Name: freedebtconsolidationquote.biz
Address: 216.75.24.149
Name: freedebtconsolidationquote.us
Address: 216.75.24.148
Name: freedebtconsolidationservices.us
Address: 216.75.24.146
marylanddebtconsolidation.us
Address: 216.75.24.143
Name: mbnadebtconsolidation.us
Address: 216.75.24.142
Name: michigandebtconsolidation.us
Address: 216.75.24.141
Name: nonprofitdebtconsolidation.us
Address: 216.75.24.139
Name: personaldebtconsolidationloan.biz
Address: 216.75.24.136
Name: secureddebtconsolidation.biz
Address: 216.75.24.134
Name: unsecureddebtconsolidation.us
Address: 216.75.63.190
Update: I did some checking on the IP number of the spambot. It’s been in play at least since August 17, 2006 - promoting domains owned by Doug Petrie.
The domain, cashadvanceclowns.com, has this whois:
Douglas Petrie
438 Ottawa Ave
Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey 07604
United States
I’ve also found promotion of poker sites on spaces live. With affiliate ID 2769220 at partypoker.com