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  1. Zombies will steal your sender ID by Animats · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Microsoft and Yahoo! Fight Spam - Sort Of
    Right now, most zombie machines send using some arbitrary identity. Most of them are just proxies or forwarders, not mail generators. The way the spam industry works is that you rent some zombies at SpecialHam, get a "bulletproof mail server" from Black Box Hosting in China, install Dark Mailer, and go. Dark Mailer runs on the "bulletproof mail server" and generates the messages, which are sent via your rented proxy farm.

    If sender ID goes in, the software that takes over a target machine will just have to use the normal sending identity for that machine, or, more simply, transmit it back to the bulk mailer so the mailer can construct the outgoing messages accordingly.

    MX Logic reports that, as of March, 9% of spam already has valid SPF markings, and 0.83% have valid Sender ID markings. So the technology to bypass SPF and Sender ID is already deployed.

  2. Re:The usual suspects are still up. by Animats · · Score: 2, Interesting · on China Signs Anti-Spam Pact
    Oh, and yes, they send spam, too. They offer dedicated rackmount servers for spam sending. Really. It doesn't get any more blatant than this.

    Proxy Mailing Servers -- 1 server for $499/month

    • Dedicated Proxy Mailing Server
    • Unlimited GB Bandwidth
    • Windows 2000 or 2003 Servers
    • Remote Desktop & pcAnywhere software
    • P4 2.4 GHz CPU or better
    • 512GB RAM
    • 80 GB Hard Drive
    • 24 hours to setup
    • Email and IM Support
    • Servers Located in China
    • Price : $499 per month
    • No Setup Fees
    • Order Now

    Allowed Software
    Proxy mailing software like the following are allowed to be used:

  3. Re:The usual suspects are still up. by Animats · · Score: 2, Interesting · on China Signs Anti-Spam Pact
    Oh, and yes, they send spam, too. They offer dedicated rackmount servers for spam sending. Really. It doesn't get any more blatant than this.

    Proxy Mailing Servers -- 1 server for $499/month

    • Dedicated Proxy Mailing Server
    • Unlimited GB Bandwidth
    • Windows 2000 or 2003 Servers
    • Remote Desktop & pcAnywhere software
    • P4 2.4 GHz CPU or better
    • 512GB RAM
    • 80 GB Hard Drive
    • 24 hours to setup
    • Email and IM Support
    • Servers Located in China
    • Price : $499 per month
    • No Setup Fees
    • Order Now

    Allowed Software
    Proxy mailing software like the following are allowed to be used:

  4. The usual suspects are still up. by Animats · · Score: 3, Interesting · on China Signs Anti-Spam Pact
    The notorious Black Box Hosting ("Our offshore bullet proof web hosting plans allow bulk email hosting, spam friendly web hosting and bulletproof host.") is still up. They claim to be in "some province in the highlands of China", and their netblock (219.148.32.234) comes up as "CHINANET HEBEI PROVINCE NETWORK".

    There's no indication on the spammer forums of any fears about China-based hosting yet.

    So, thus far, any crackdown is vaporware.

  5. Does this include China-based spammer sites? by Animats · · Score: 4, Informative · on China Forces Websites To Register

    Will this include major China-based spammer services like Black Box Hosting? "Our offshore bullet proof web hosting plans allow bulk email hosting, spam friendly web hosting and bulletproof host."

  6. Rent a botnet here! by Animats · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Honeynet Revealing Actual Phishing Techniques
    You, too, can run a phishing scam. You'll need a botnet, bulk-friendly hosting, and bulletproof credit card processing. And you can get them all here.

    Yes, "Specialham", the spammer hangout, is back! "SpecialHam is the premier online destination for email marketing professionals." With great new topics like "What are the most anonymous ways to transfer money".

    That site seems to be aimed at low end and clueless spammers.

    Further up the food chain, we have Black Box Hosting. "Fully featured bullet proof dedicated server. Allows direct mailing and website hosting. All our plans allow Adult, Gambling and Pharmacy Content." They also offer "Mailing Servers". You have to supply your own list of proxies, and your own bulk mailing program. They recommend DarkMailer.

    So you go on Specialham and rent some open proxies. Then order a mailing server and a web server from Black Box Hosting. Run your scam. Launder the money through an offshore credit card processor. Profit!

    What we really need in honeynets is for about 10% of these support operations to be sting operations run by law enforcement. That would make phishing and spamming a much higher risk operation.

  7. Rent a botnet here! by Animats · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Honeynet Revealing Actual Phishing Techniques
    You, too, can run a phishing scam. You'll need a botnet, bulk-friendly hosting, and bulletproof credit card processing. And you can get them all here.

    Yes, "Specialham", the spammer hangout, is back! "SpecialHam is the premier online destination for email marketing professionals." With great new topics like "What are the most anonymous ways to transfer money".

    That site seems to be aimed at low end and clueless spammers.

    Further up the food chain, we have Black Box Hosting. "Fully featured bullet proof dedicated server. Allows direct mailing and website hosting. All our plans allow Adult, Gambling and Pharmacy Content." They also offer "Mailing Servers". You have to supply your own list of proxies, and your own bulk mailing program. They recommend DarkMailer.

    So you go on Specialham and rent some open proxies. Then order a mailing server and a web server from Black Box Hosting. Run your scam. Launder the money through an offshore credit card processor. Profit!

    What we really need in honeynets is for about 10% of these support operations to be sting operations run by law enforcement. That would make phishing and spamming a much higher risk operation.

  8. Visit a spammer message board - see the felonies by Animats · · Score: 5, Informative · on Spam Turns 100, By One Reckoning
    For a good time, visit this spammer bulletin board. "Make Big Money with Spam". There's enough criminal activity described there to put some people in Club Fed for many years. This is a window into organized crime. Some excerpts:
    • 07-07-2004, 05:25 PM
      Nugster is Offline:
      Junior Member
      Join Date: Jul 2004
      Reliable Proxie service hourly updated

      Hello, I am providing a very good proxie service with hourly updates.

      each members list contains 1,000-2,000 working proxies at all times.

      all you do is load the list into your mailer llike DM mailer uses links to get proxies set it to hourly updates and wala hands free mailing.

      we offer the service for a weekly price of $600 with discount for montly memberships which monthly is $2,200 a $200 savings.

      ...

      We are here to stay & aim to please. Our service is staffed by a full time crew of 10 people who are constantly maintaing our lists by hand 24/7 to ensure working proxies, unlike others who have there lists checked by computers only not acutally checking for smtp enable. ...

    Need money laundering services?

    • adamrich is Offline:
      Junior Member
      Join Date: Apr 2004
      Posts: 11
      processing Quote: Originally Posted by excelbru

      Can someone advise me a reliable bulk proof credit card processor not shutting me down after the first complaints?
      ...
      We can do such processing for you. Take a look at our site www.oxbill.com

    And much, much more.

    If you deal with spam, it's worth some time spent visiting that site. There's a whole criminal infrastructure to support spamming. You'll find "bullet proof web hosting", domain laundering, credit card laundering, virus/worm distributors selling access to zombie machines, mortgage lead buyers, and "pharmacy" operators.

    Yes, it's been reported to CERT/Homeland Security and NANAE.

  9. Re:Not that I advocate vigilantism... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Anti-Spammers Infiltrate Private Online Spam Clubs

    http://www.blackboxhosting.com/ The first entry under Google!