Re: [AMaViS-user] User complaints of spam

Clifton Royston wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 08:02:46AM -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote:
>
>>Then, since all of my clients are businesses, they broke the law and
>>don't seem to care.
>>
>>In fact, since they 'blast spam', they have no idea who they are
>>spamming anyway.
>
>
> Do have a care to understand what's going on, before you assign blame
> too freely.
>

and DO UNDERSTAND I UNDERSTAND THAT UK.GEOCITIES.COM HAS NOT RESPONDED,
AND ISN'T DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT.


> UK Geocities, like Geocities in the US, is a free (ad-supported)
> personal webpage hosting site.
>
> If you look at the headers of these spams, you'll find that these
> mails aren't coming from UK Geocities. If you look at the sites of the
> actual URLs (which I'm not sure I'd recommend) you'll find that the
> ultimate websites they're in support of aren't hosted on UK Geocities
> either.
>
> The MO of at least one large spam gang now is to create "springboard"
> entry pages on free hosting sites; when you hit that URL, you get a
> page or two which ultimately redirect you to another host where the
> real site being spammed for is. One that I know of particularly
> targets Geocities, I assume because they've got some automated signup
> process. I've seen dozens of URLs and pages on Geocities in a spam
> run, all with the exact same content. They're wor
>
> If you could figure out a process for automatically forwarding these
> to the Geocities abuse department, one per URL, it would be a good
> thing; I've been able to manually forward some of these in the past and
> that has helped them close down some of the sites quickly. The contact
> I eventually reached at Yahoo (owner of Geocities) said they're working
> on a process for trying to detect these "springboards" and close them
> automatically before they can be spammed for, but haven't got one yet.
>
> The reason I say I'm not sure I'd recommend looking at the sites is
> that in the past this MO has been used mainly to support child porn and
> rape porn sites. Quite unpleasant content, and in many countries you
> might be skirting the law just by looking at the site to see what it
> is.
>
> -- Clifton
>



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