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TristanGrimaux writes "According to a recent study done by CipherTrust, two thirds of the world's spam is sent by Taiwan servers. The US follows with 24% and in a distant third is China with only 3% of the servers who actually sends the spam." The article cites easy access to broadband and lack of crackdown on offenders as the main contributing factors.
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Availability of relatively cheaper computing power with good bandwidth?
Some legal stuff?
Availability of some skill set?
One thing that surprised me in TFA was the claim that China has cheap broadband access. Perhaps I suffer from some cliched view of China, but it surprises me to hear that China has cheap broadband. Any knowledgeable person like to fill in the details? Here in France we have very cheap broadband, but doesn't seem like France is producing much zombie spam.
John.
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With this software emulating an open SOCKS proxy, I've been able to detect several scans of port 1080, and then attempts to send e-mail to different servers around the world (i.e. Israel).
I don't remember if I got requests from Taiwan, but I did get them from South Korean IPs.
More like follow the offshore bank accounts, Grand Cayman Islands, etc.
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Instead of figuring out where most of the spam comes from, they should figure out which geographic location churns out the most humorous spam. It could be a world wide competition.
As for following the money...I let the SEC do that. About once a week, I get a spam message pushing one stock or another. I forward them to enforcement (at) sec.gov. The message gets looked over by a lawyer.
I don't know that it does anything about the spam, but hopefully whoever paid for the message gets paid back.
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They're part of China sort of (but not exactly) the way the South was part of the U.S. between 1861 and 1865, except the war to resolve the issue hasn't happened yet. Pray that it doesn't...
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And they don't need to. With their billion+ population, one fifth of the world can be reached without passing the invisible borders!
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Taiwan makes more than 66% of the notebooks on which we read that spam, so they're actually overperforming on the content:reader ratio. I wish they'd get more into eBooks.
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Philosophy.
So it's part of China or not? "Maybe" doesn't really make much sense to me. US and UN says Taiwan is part of China, EU is saying Taiwan is not part of China, Taiwan is saying it's its own country, China is saying it's part of China. Google says it's part of China. WTF.
"Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
Taiwan and China are actually both China. Taiwan is the Republic of China. While what most people(unless you happen to be from Taiwan) call China is of course the Democratic Peoples Republic of China. The DPRC does consider Taiwan a rouge province, while Taiwan doesn't consider that to be the case. As the other reply said, lets hope the war to resolve this doesn't happen any time soon.
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More like follow the offshore bank accounts, Grand Cayman Islands, etc.
I lived there. Internet access is expensive as it was a government protected monopoly. Check the rates. Cable and Wireless is the company. To visit, see www.candw.ky.
When they first put in internet, they got 2 satelite T1 links for the whole island. Little Cayman and Cayman Brac still did not have internet. They charged $0.25/minute for access on dial up.
Needless to say I didn't get internet until I returned to the states.
They have since gotten a Fiber Optic cable to Jamaca and they now offer DSL. They are running a promotion for $25/month for the first year. That is CI $ not USD. The price is close to US $30/month. Restrictions such as can't compete with the phone company by using VOIP is the norm.
The plan appears to be capped at 256K unless you upgrade to a faster plan. For example the 1024 plan is CI $74. The 512 plan is $59.
Cayman Islands is a nice place to go for diving and sun, but not for internet based business.
The truth shall set you free!
Availability of relatively cheaper computing power with good bandwidth?
Some legal stuff?
Availability of some skill set?
All of the above, and more. Taiwan is a great place to outsource technology intensive operations. Perhaps spammers have discovered this. In a nutshell, spamming is just another technology driven business.
Maybe it's so great that even China outsources their spam generation there too. Hence their low spam generation figures.
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Well, we have shades of red and red here. :)
... but the ROC does!
Does the People's Republic of China collect taxes in Taiwan? No, the Republic of China does.
Does the PRC actually try to enforce its criminal laws in Taiwan? No, but the ROC enforces its laws.
Does the PRC define the commerce regulations, health regulations, education standards, voting laws, aviation regulations, etc. within the borders of Taiwan? No -- but the ROC does.
Does the PRC have military bases on Taiwan? No
What the U.N., U.S. and Europe say in polite diplo-speak is one thing. The working reality (and the *money* reality) is that Taiwan is a separate country, perhaps not in name, but in operational fact.
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You don't do the business itself from the Caymans, just your under-the-radar finances.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
I believe the main issue is that broadband here is pretty much monopolized by Hinet. If you have a phone (landline), chances are you have a Hinet e-mail address. For some reason Hinet never, ever, authenticates their e-mail servers allowing them to be used from anywhere for any purpose. As a result a lot of companies (like AOL possibly) have just banned the whole entire Hinet domain, which often results in e-mails going outside of Taiwan never getting to their intended recipient. Hinet is a mess, I don't why they're so bloody awful at maintaining their servers responsibly, but its providing to be a huge problem both worldwide and for Taiwanese people themselves.
CipherTrust operates a service called "Trusted Source" - it allows anybody to input an IP address, searching CipherTrust's DB to see if any spam has come from that IP recently. Aside from being generally useless, here are some of the funnier results:
0 255.0.0.0 - "Spam"1 224.0.0.1 - "Unverified"
http://www.trustedsource.org/query.php?q=255.0.0.
http://www.trustedsource.org/query.php?q=0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 - "Spam"
http://www.trustedsource.org/query.php?q=224.0.0.
Since they have most of my favorite subnet masks listed as a "Spam" source, I'm not sure that I trust any "research" that comes from these guys.. YMMV.
Ok, I know you're trying to be clever with your "Content Restriction, Annulment and Protection" acronym, but it doesn't make any sense. Why not just "Consumer Rights Annulment Provision"? Much less ambiguous, and much more direct.
That said... Yes. The Cayman Islands and a couple other small nations serve as fiduciary havens, not infrastructure.
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By the way... Most spammers who sent you letters to visit their web pages want's you to click their Google adSense ads. So, help them! Keep clicking Google banner untill your arm get tired and guess what happened. Google will close their account in one second because Google systems will decide that advertiser trying to cheat. It is impossible to open account again! SPAMMER DEAD!
If a mailer manages to supply those crippled IP's then the mail is definitely fake, and most likely spam (or virus). Don't confuse a legitimate subnet mask with a fake IP.
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Let the SEC do it.
The SEC. Ha. A worthless three letter agency, if you ask me.
The SEC's lawyers wanted my help on stock tout junk faxes. I told them I had the information they wanted and I could get the rest and testify- but only if they were going to put the junk faxers out of business. They had no intention of doing anything. They are just going through the motions, drawing government salaries. I declined to help them.
Like the FCC, another worthless three letter agency.
They fined Fax.com $5.4 million for sending out junk faxes. The FCC's lawyers wanted my help too, if I had bothered with them the fine would have been $240 million. I have files full of those junk faxes.
The FCC did nothing whatsoever to collect. NOTHING
If you or I owed the government money I can assure you they would be collecting from us.
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Prince Desmond Okotiebor Etete himself MUST account for at least 10% of all spam...
But if there was less spam, there wouldn't be anything for them to do!
Funny how people will avoid doing things that will cause them to be invaded.
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Somedays I almost wish that some of this Taiwanese spam showed up in a character set I could read so at least I could have a good laugh at it, or at least learn how they are trying to extract money from illicit private bank accounts!
"Dear Sir or Madam,
This email may to you as a surprise, but I am Mr. Chen Liao, son of former Taiwanese president Lin Liao, who was murdered by ninjas, and I need your help recovering $25 million Taiwanese Dollars..."
Its a very politicized situation.
Taiwan is effectively its own country. China says its not. China will not trade with any country that recognizes Taiwan's statehood, therefore most countries don't, but also don't recognize China's (PRC) rule over Taiwan (ROC).
In 1949, the communists (PRC) fought a civil war with the then Chinese government (ROC), the communists won, and the ROC fled to Taiwan. China (PRC) claims Taiwan, and Taiwan (ROC) until recently claimed all of China.
It gets a little complicated with the Taiwan Relations Act and the Six Assurances, but we're pretty much hoping the communists go away before a war breaks out over it. Taiwan has been assured that we (USA) will intervene in the event of a Chinese invasion. We've also been selling them a great deal of arms for the last 30 years, you always take care of your best customers. We've created a situation similar to the one in Korea, where our forces there are a deterrent, a tripwire for American intervention in case of an invasion. The 7th Fleet is very conveniently positioned for that reason.
I don't see anything changing until China is no longer ruled by an oppressive communist regime, the people of Taiwan should decide what to do after that. The US doesn't want Taiwan to fall into China's hands, Japan considers the prospect a grave threat as well. Taiwan certainly doesn't want to be under oppressive communist rule, either.
>does consider Taiwan a rouge province
So Taiwan is actually Red China?
(I apologize. I transpose keys too. But that one was just irresistible.)
That is why my spam has typos and leet speak in the subjects and email message, for example: buy cheap c1alis, /i@gra and other best pharmaceuticals =-= gghgtmn
Now CKS had planned to take back China as he built Taipei (the capital was Tainan) to be a city of big streets that could be used as runways for bombers, but that never happened.
For about the last 20 years China has been making noises about bringing Taiwan into the communist fold. The DPP party in Taiwan has been making noises about declaring Taiwan independent from China, and so China has responded with bigger noises. I would say that nothing will happen until the Olympics are over..
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I run my own mail server for my private email that I only use with friends.
Lately, I have been getting spam about stock investments, and I notice that
it was pretty consistent so I started investigating what was going on with
my server. I started marking down ip addresses of the offending servers
and blocking them if I felt they were not legitimate mail servers or if it
was from a country that I know I will not get email from on my personal email
account.
I have been blocking a new server every day for 2 months.
Here is the scarey part. I still get the same email spam every day, but
only once.
My hunch is telling me that the purveyor of this message is using some
sophisticated means of harnassing zombie machines to send messages, and is
only sending a few messages at a time so that automated blackhole lists
never catch on fast enough. (such as spamhaus)
I have noticed that these machines are almost always located in Asia,
Latin America, or Eastern Europe...
It got so bad, I just started block entire class A's from countries I know
I am not going to email to or from.
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In other words, this is a case where even the proverbial elephant in the room doesn't want to acknowledge its own presense! :)
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Cayman Islands is a nice place to go for diving and sun, but not for internet based business.
Surely it depends rather a lot on what sort of Internet-based business we are talking about. Running a spam empire only means sending one relatively short bit of text once - the machines doing the spamming could be anywhere in the world, and, indeed, if I was planning a semi-legal or illegal business, I'd be keen to keep the servers as far away from me (both physically and in terms of hops and audit trails) as possible.
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*headdesk*... but a golf clap for you indeed, well played sir :P
Happy Noodle Boy says "F###ing doughnut! Mock me? You fried cyclops!!"
Saying Taiwan and China are both China is like saying both England and Australia are Great Britan. Taiwan was a part of China till China forked it over to Japan 100 years ago. Go back a few more hundred years, Taiwan belonged to the Dutch, whom I think is the first county to officially plant their flag and call it their own. . . . Most Taiwanese are ethnic Han Chinese, but so are most Chinese Americans. . . and most Australians can trace their roots back to GB but that does not mean they are British.
.lol. . . I like to see that in China. . . .
Taiwan is Taiwan. Taiwan is is a completely separate policital entity, way different from China. . . . I think they're trying to impeach their president right now. .
regarding spammer from Taiwan. . . . base on what I saw the geeks to nerds ratio is too low to product a sizable indigenous hacker population. . .
John
After WW2 and the end of the Japanese occupation, a civil war was fought between the Communists under Mao and the KMT under Chiang Kai-shek. The KMT were effectively defeated by 1949, and Chiang evacuated to Taiwan. For much of the Cold War, "Free China" (ROC) was the only government of China recognised by most states and international organisations. However, as part of the 'detente' in the 1970s, most countries switched their recognition to Communist China (PRC). The ROC is obviously a state in all but name, but the situation is maintained to avoid nuclear war. The PRC has said that if the ROC declares independence then they will invade, while the US has stated that it will defend Taiwan, and has meanwhile provided large amounts of military aid. So, basically, it's a mess.
Ask a person from Taiwan where they are from and they will say China. I know that because I've worked booking appointments for visas to the U.S. One of the things to get straight when someone said they were from China was that the Democratic Peoples Republic of or Republic of. They both refer to them selves as from China.
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Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
The DPRC does consider Taiwan a rouge province, while Taiwan doesn't consider that to be the case.
:p
In fact, it's the DPRC who's a rogue province there
We have a revolution where a government gets ousted by rebels once per like 1-2 years in the world, and in quite a bit of cases the rebels fail to grab control of the whole country. However, it's not every year when this happen in a billion+ country with nuclear weapons.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
I'm not really sure how to deal with that, but let us focus as one method of spam. The method would be sending to a variety of e-mail addresses. Those kind of dictionary attacks or whatever they are killed. If e-mail providers were to make some dummy addresses which if hit, could block the e-mail server and/or IP address(es) for a given period of time, wouldn't that work?
(Fine, mod me down if you think this is off topic.)
Two porbelms with your post: One, as others have already noted, you mean "rogue", not "rouge"; two, there's no such thing as the Democratic People's Republic of China. Perhaps you're thinking of the full name of North Korea (DPRK)? With mainland China, the correct/full name is People's Republic of China -- no "Democratic". Thus, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are officially the PRC and the ROC.
:)
And yes, I know there's a typo in the second word of my post.
Ok it's early and you are right I am adding Democratic cause I'm some form of monkey. Damn you communists and your tricky name tricks. Anyway :P while I ment rogue as EVERYONE has pointed out, what I said was no less true, the PRC does consider them 'red' :P Ok yea I'm grabbing at straws there.
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pro-taiwanese independence? haha
saying us taiwanese from china is like lowering our social class
funny all the people i know gets angry when people say they are from china
and no we don't ever say we from china..
we from taiwan
Like I said, two problems: that's it, no more. Everything else you said was quite correct.
ROC used to rule the whole China, mainland and Taiwan combined. They lost the civil war in 1949 and retreated to Taiwan. Neither PRC nor ROC see each other as a ligitimate government of China. At least both constitutions claim largely overlapping territories. It's a stalemale over half a century.
How people are so casual about the facts is beyond me.
People who dislike China tend to mention Tiananmen Square a lot, but they always forget the Tank Man is also a Chinese.
They have taken to serving spam alongside the scorpions, rats and cats.
Let's hope this issue will be resolved by ourselves. I, for one, welcome political parties in Taiwan back to mainland to takeover the regime. But it seems they're currently only interested in fighting one another on this Taiwan Independence issue.
People who dislike China tend to mention Tiananmen Square a lot, but they always forget the Tank Man is also a Chinese.
Spam, Made In Taiwan ?
Why doesn't that supprise me ?
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
"Any wagers on USA being said location?"
From the article...
"Spammers themselves, of course, may be located somewhere completely different, such as Boca Raton, USA (for example)."
Any wagers on not RTFA as the cause of this comment??
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Except it's hardly ever the company itself that is doing the promotions... it's third-party people that target them and convince others, via spam, to invest in the company, which drives the prices up, which allows them to unload their own stock at a profit.
All while being 100% unrelated to the company.
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That's because it's the official name on our passports (surprise surprise when you're doing visas!) Ask any regular Taiwanese where they're from in any othe context, and they'll say Taiwan.
What is also amusing is that China does not have a legal basis. Technically by international law, Taiwan is still under a US Military Government from World War 2! We just haven't gotten around to officially determining its sovereignty (mostly because of the political situation with China).
Is there a quick and easy way to block all e-mail transiting via a Taiwan server?
It's not as though I know (or envisage knowing) anybody in Taiwan.
No, your children are not the special ones. Nor are your pets.
Send spam to Chinese people. These people should not be deprived of any knowledge about their government. For the first time spam could be used for good purpose.
Spam: Any activity on internet to gain popularity without paying to advertising companies like Google.
Ok, so how come all the spam blockers don't just block the entire Taiwanese IP range?
:)
Anyone care to disclose the ranges?
Now our ISPs can block everything from said countries to eliminate spam once and for all...
Legally, the civil war in the 40s has not finished yet. Neither side of the war has been eliminated. No treaty or cease-fire agreement was signed. Both sides just prefer not to fight for now.
This situation is very complicated. Indeed, it's getting more complicated as more political powers want to get involved in it. I think the best way to resolve it is to leave it to the Chinese people of both sides to sit down and talk. Any open foreign involvement and provocation from the Taiwan Independence side will risk a full-blown war in the region.
People who dislike China tend to mention Tiananmen Square a lot, but they always forget the Tank Man is also a Chinese.
Were I you, I would simply unblock those addresses and let it all in. Use a bayesian spam filter, such as the one found in Thunderbird. I'm achieving enormous success rates with it and I'll be recommending it to all the lusers in my fold when the next upgrade cycle comes around.
May the Maths Be with you!
They must be good at identifying USA email addresses then. The vast majority of spam I get is from the USA. But then I'm in the UK, so perhaps Taiwan doesn't spam me as much as they spam Americans. Hey, perhaps this is another form of terrorism, is Taiwan on the Axis Of Evil?
Everything else is made in either Taiwan or China, why not SPAM. All the US spammers probably outsource their spam to these countries to get their costs low enough Walmartize the product :-)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I don't think the article writer was insinuiting that all spammers are located in Boca Raton, USA.
I think in the early days of Spam, most spammers were from the USA, but I think that it is spread globally now.
On another note, what is the deal with so many internet scammers being located in Nigeria, or of Nigerian decent??
I would say that nothing will happen until the Olympics are over..
During which the Taiwanese govt enter every member of the population who then briskly run thataway.
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It's some strange Chinese letters that should actually give you good fortune and a cookie and whatnot. It just so happens to display that crap in our alphabet.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
There is no such thing as the Democratic People's Republic of China. It's the People's Republic of China. There's no need to misname China, it doesn't make you look insightful, it makes you look stupid. And why the parent post is modded informative is beyond me, when such a glaring error is made.
The article is not about senders of spam but of servers that control them. There is a huge difference.
Gee, you're smart.
I'm going to photocopy your tip and mail it anonymously to my business competitors, so when they try it, not only will google blacklist the ad account of the website, but they'll also permanently blacklist the subnet of the offending clicker, and any related ad accounts related to the ip of where the offending clicker logs in from. What an idea!
Also, after more than a half dozen years of my filtering spam and never having followed a spam link to a website, it appears you have the higher mental skill set to actually follow the spam links, letting the spammer know your email account is functional and worth spamming. Thanks for taking the flack for the rest of us.
One thing I've noticed is that the spammers themselves must be incredibly afraid of the power the SEC has to put them out of business. If the SEC puts the power they have to go after insider trader violators (and believe me, the laws they have to prosecute them are incredibly effective at "turning" violators and getting them to implicate others), and put that power to work going after spammers, they could lock them up for tens of years each and very quickly. Take a look at every OTC and pink sheet stock scam spam you get. At the bottom, they include the SEC safe harbor language that exempts them from prosecution for promoting stocks without a broker license, among other safe harbor exemption language. So to understand this, you realize that the spammers have no fear of getting caught sending porn spam without the "SEXUALLY EXPLICIT" notice in the subject line of the spam, they have no fear of going to jail for pushing fake or real Viagra or international internet narcotics sales (not legal in any way shape or form in the US no matter what, not even intra-pharmacy), they have no fear of the departments of state or state attorneys general for selling fake diplomas, they have no fear of state banking departments, departments of state, or state attorneys general for soliciting for mortgages without being licensed mortgage brokers in every state they advertise in, they have no fear of local, state, or federal prosecution for fraud for deceptively low interest rates quoted in their spam, fear of other fraud prosecution for their other fraud scams, yet they are so afraid of the SEC laws that they are sure to include safe harbor language in every spam they send.
I think the easiest thing the feds can do to prosecute the spammers is to remove the safe harbor shield for spam promoting public traded companies if the spam hides the originating server, hides the return email address, forges headers, doesn't provide a street address, full legal name, full phone number and any related license number in every spam body, or if they misspell any part of the safe harbor language, or improperly use caps. This would enable the SEC (and other federal enforcement agencies) to use federal laws related to stocks for prosecution of the spammers, which bring long term jail sentences, and would also enable mail server administrators to block spam which does use the safe harbor language effectively without worrying about the spammers dodging their way around the filters by misusing caps, by words intentionally, etc.
They're probably trusting the received lines...
Of course only the one added by your server is trustable - the others can be anything the spammer wants them to be - including perfectly legitimate IP addresses.
I don't think so. Most of my spam is also aimed at a north American audience and my email address ends in .uk Mostly it is Viagra or similar, which would be illegal to ship to the U.K. Combined with stock manipulation stuff which is flat out illegal anyway, but pointless sending to someone in the United Kingdom when the stock they are trying to manipulate is in the U.S.A.
.uk address!!!) all that would be left would be phishing and AFF, at less than a tenth of the current volume.
If all this was removed my spam volume would be less than a quarter of it's current volume. If all the other foreign language spam was removed (I ask what is the point of sending say spam in Hebrew or Chinese or Korean to a
I've set up my email server to run over IEEE 802.11i, its completely free of spam from China.
Users... the only thing keeping 1st level support from being the bottom feeders.
I remember the good old days of 50 hours for $50 on 56k. Ah, gotta love Cayman ;)
First, you have to be set up to even buy stock (not every Tom Dick or Harry is tied to a stock exchange or is equipped to be a day trader) then you have to be stupid enough to fall for the pump & dump scheme.
The rate of return must be damn near nil.
I say give up the fight against spammers and go after the clients instead.
Follow the money.
If somebody's supposed to benefit from this, let them pay $0.32USD per email that's sent.
Otherwise, I'm going to spam myself to promote my podcast.
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Welcome to 1999 !! Taiwan is SPECIAL, but it's still CHINA !!
No, that's Hong Kong that became part of China. Taiwan is that island off the coast that the Communists never captured in the civil war. For various political reasons it is rarely referred to as being a different country, but for all practical purposes it's a totally seperate country.
I ask what is the point of sending say spam in Hebrew or Chinese or Korean to a .uk address!!!
No kidding. I still wonder why I get so many Russian 'Learn to read english' spams in the U.S. I need a class just to read this Russian spam.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
Do you really think so? I bet it ends up in a gient queue for a quick automated "than you, and good bye".
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Actually, I've just realized that I don't know (apart from in the theoretical sense,) how its done or even how to get in touch with the kind of creature who does it.
:-)
Strikes me as a very closed off world. (Probably because of all the death threats.
Actually, the spamming (as opposed to the spammers) are highly vulnerable.
It would be easy to shut them down and/or fine them ($1.00 per email message) and have the various postal services collaborate to sue them into oblivion for mail fraud.
I don't imagine you'd find much political opposition to a source of free revenue. Somebody spams, the postal service in the country of origin collects the fines.
That would take care of the problem. Attempt to steal from me, you're an idiot. Steal from some tin-pot dictator in the process, you're mulch.
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I've used cn-kr.blackholes.us with SpamAssassin to give extra points to messages originating in China and South Korea. Obviously it would make sense to do the same for Taiwan. However a query for tw.blackholes.us returns NXDOMAIN. I've also looked at countries.nerd.dk for a solution to this, but didn't see an obvious answer. Is anyone out there using a DNSBL to identify IPs in Taiwan? If so, what are you using?
1861 to 1865 is 5 years. As far as I know, Taiwan was under Japanese rule for the first 50 years of the 20th century, and the current government in China, the Chinese Communist Party, has actually never set foot in Taiwan.
It's true! My fiance is from Taiwan, and she's always telling me that I need to 1NCREA5E MY P3RF0R|\/|ANCE 1N BEDD!!!!!
I say we just nuke Taiwan. It's a small place, right? We must make sacrifices for the greater good...
Just because it can't be explained doesn't mean it isn't true. Science fits into reality... not the other way around.
So, you're trying to say that every single person living in the United Kingdom speaks and reads ONLY the Queen's English? Rather naive of you, don't you think?
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Rokso keeps track of the major spammers. Most of them reside in the US, though they typically offshore their servers to other countries.
My other OS is the MCP!
I'd have to agree with that as I blocked a couple /16s this morning that were spamming the hell out of a client. Knocked out a couple /12s from Korea as well. Annoying bastards...
You're nothing; like me.
Stop using email. I'm almost ready to just turn off all my email accounts. RSS feeds, IMs, VoIP, and the telephone work much better anyway.
The above is not worth reading.
As someone else pointed out, the reason it's called an offshore banking account is because they don't live there.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
The message gets looked over by a lawyer.
"Ping - you have mail"
Lawyer - "Damn, more spam", *Delete*
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Shhh. Don't tell China - they might invade
I used to support TW's independance, but after reading this, I no longer support them. The deaths of a few million in slave labor camps is a small price to pay to stop SPAM.
Andy Out!
Actually, today I wouldn't count on that. That used to be true.
My research indicates that the largest junk faxers faxing stock touts are actually the company involved or closely related, in at least some cases.
The pink OTCBB stocks are not well regulated, so what those companies apparently do is just issue more stock to cover whatever is sold. It's fake.
They apparently make millions doing it, or at least thousands.
One player is reportedly named Tom Heysek. Google that name and you can read all about it. http://www.junkfax.org/fax/profiles/wsp/wsp.htm
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"in at least some cases"
Sure, I'm not saying that some of them aren't doing their own marketing... but how do you even BEGIN to think about policing that? Or determining when they are or aren't involved?
The ROI just isn't there... too much work, too many unknowns, and too little gain to be had to justify the effort, IMO.
$0.02 (CDN)
The computer at that IP address has been compromised and is spewing 'bozo spam'. I got 3 of them recently for some kind of weightloss product.
[Victim email addresses have been sanitized -- except mine