Scam-Linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out

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Scam-Linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @04:53AM from the don't-let-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out dept.

alphadogg writes with this excerpt from Network World: "The lifeline linking notorious service provider Intercage to the rest of the Internet has been severed. Intercage, which has also done business under the name Atrivo, was knocked offline late Saturday night when the last upstream provider connecting it to the Internet's backbone, Pacific Internet Exchange, terminated Intercage's service. Intercage president Emil Kacperski said Pacific did not tell him why his company had been knocked offline, but he believes it was in response to pressure from Spamhaus, a volunteer-run antispam group, which has been highly critical of Intercage's business practices."

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That's why! by courteaudotbiz · 2008-09-23 04:58 · Score: 2, Funny

I was thinking to myself "God! My EMail account must be in problem, I didn't receive any spam since the weekend", then I got this really great offer, a guy who is going to give me 20% of 5 million US dollars to help him recover a lost bank account. Well that's perfect, I'm the one who's finally gonna be rich!
1. Re:That's why! by bonehead · 2008-09-23 05:00 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  That's awesome! Just imagine all the penis enlargement pills you'll be able to order now!
2. Re:That's why! by indifferent+children · 2008-09-23 05:10 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I got an email just this morning informing me that SuperRoyalCasinoOnline.com is offering a 200% bonus on all deposits.
  That's nothing. I got an offer this morning of $700B, with little oversight and no accountability. All I have to do is prove that I recklessly lost hundreds of billions of investor capital.
  
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3. Re:That's why! by azav · 2008-09-23 05:17 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Nigerian Mortgage Enlargement Pills.
  
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4. Re:That's why! by spun · 2008-09-23 05:19 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Look, you commie, if we don't pay our CEOs hundreds of millions of dollars, how can we be assured that we're getting the best? Do you know how long it might have taken to rape you all for hundreds of billions of dollars and then stick you with the bill for the rape exam kit if we had to make do with substandard CEOs?
  
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5. Re:That's why! by Culture20 · 2008-09-23 05:57 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Further proof that Communism is more efficient. It took the U.S. Government two centuries to do what the Soviets did to Czarist Russia in just months. /kidding
  In Soviet Russia ________
Re:Severs them right! by Anonymous+Codger · 2008-09-23 05:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Nice typo in the title - very appropriate slip.

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Easy fix for them by $RANDOMLUSER · 2008-09-23 05:16 · Score: 2, Funny

I'm sure if they ask real nice on the news.admin.net-abuse.email and news.admin.net-abuse.sightings newsfroups, they'll be reconnected in no time :D

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Re:So, a drop of spam-traffic? by BPPG · 2008-09-23 05:23 · Score: 5, Funny

I for one welcome this chance for other spam vendors to engage in a little competition. It will be a wholly new playing field if/when Intercage re-emerges online, after previously holding a dominant position. Hopefully the free-market nature of Internet business will only encourage the production of more quality spam. The recipients of spam can only benefit from this new development.

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Re:So, a drop of spam-traffic? by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-23 05:45 · Score: 3, Funny

Maybe he could apply for a government bailout. After all, spam does account for a significant portion of our economy
Re:So, a drop of spam-traffic? by osu-neko · 2008-09-23 05:46 · Score: 3, Funny

Still though one wonders how someone can be running an ISP with 78% hostile traffic and not realize something is up.
If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say. ;)

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Re:So, a drop of spam-traffic? by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-23 06:16 · Score: 4, Funny

Yea, don't give them any ideas!

Next thing you know `traceroute intercage.com` will look something like this:
traceroute to intercage.com (128.102.0.99), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets ... 12 TKC-COMMUNI.hsa4.SanJose1.Level3.net (209.245.146.6) 36.243 ms 36.086 ms 36.397 ms 13 n254-border-rtr-nisn-sip.arc.nasa.gov (198.123.41.9) 36.087 ms 36.086 ms 36.403 ms 14 intercage.com (128.102.0.99) 36.432 ms 36.231 ms 36.891 ms