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Spam's U.S. Roots

Posted by michael on from the part-of-the-problem-not-part-of-the-solution dept.

ahab_2001 writes "Notwithstanding how tired my finger is getting from deleting all of those unsolicited messages from China and Korea, Information Week reports that a study of filtered messages by the spam-blocking firm CipherTrust revealed that some 86% of spam originates in the U.S. Apparently, a very limited set of IPs with high-bandwidth connections is dishing out the bulk of the spam, according to this study."

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  1. Are any of us suprised? by TaintedPastry · · Score: 5, Interesting
    While I do get the few 'nigerian national' emails, most of them seem to be in pretty g00d 3ngli$h.

    What do I do find morally distrubing is that there are geeks out there making assloads of cash providing a conduit for this spam with high powered servers and keeping the senders essentially nameless.

  2. What are those? by Quixote · · Score: 5, Interesting
    a very limited set of IPs with high-bandwidth connections is dishing out the bulk of the spam,

    I skimmed the article, but couldn't find the answer to the question that, I'm sure, is on most /.ers minds: what are those IPS???

  3. Re:I need your help by gptelemann · · Score: 5, Interesting

    while [ true ] ; do wget http://www.emailsupply.net/lists.php -O /dev/null ; done

    Try this also: large file, and hit the PHP, not a static page!

  4. Re:Crush by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Crush those sites? A sound idea. Start here. It's a Spam Vampire site set up by one of the more vicious anti-spammers I've ever seen in action. Non-caching, image-reaping, website-burning, bandwith-sucking action, all with a scorecard and a throttle. Now if we can just get this modded up so that a few thousand people are all playing at the same time...

  5. Re:I need your help by Kallahar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It appears that his host is onlinehome-server.com which has a price list at here which shows their max monthly bandwidth as being between 25 and 100 gigs. At 90k/s bandwidth (their end) that's 324 megs/hour/person, so assuming 10 people do it it would take 30 hours each to hit their cap. 100 people could do it in 3.

    Sounds like fun :)