Overview of spam from Babylon-X

15 Feb 2006

Note: Automated spam monitoring stopped several years ago. These web pages are maintained for historical reasons. Some may be updated from time to time as news about the individual sites becomes available.

No spam today

Overview of last 3 reports

date	posts	total	BI
09 Nov 1999	36	36	36.00	full headers
29 Oct 1999	36	36	36.00	full headers
20 Oct 1999	27	27	27.00	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 20 Oct 1999	99	99	99.00
Peak spam on 29 Oct 1999	36	36	36.00
Peak daily spam on 29 Oct 1999	4	4	4.00	(9-day average)
Average daily spam	3.6	3.6	3.60

full history also available

General information about Babylon-X

Added 3 Sept 1999. Babylon-X is a porn site that advertises from Vip.uk.co. Advertisements point to web pages at Lineone, Populous, and Anglefilre which automatically forward the user to the Babylon-X web page.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Net Feeds
Sample Spam

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Babylon-X as

Registrant:
Cybertech Communication NV (BABYLON-X2-DOM)
   11 Sparrenweg
   -, - Curacao
   NL

   Domain Name: BABYLON-X.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Earl, Traci  (TE568)  babylon@BABYLON-X.COM
      599 9 611 455
   Billing Contact:
      Earl, Traci  (TE568)  babylon@BABYLON-X.COM
      599 9 611 455

   Record last updated on 08-Jan-99.
   Record created on 26-Feb-97.
   Database last updated on 2-Sep-99 19:22:58 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

Site history

3 Sept 1999: Added to tracking list.

Net Feeds

Babylon-X receives connectivity from the following sites that I know of:

Digex (network connectivity)
Vip.co.uk (netnews feed)
Netscapeonline.co.uk (netnews feed)

These sites have been added to the reporting list for Babylon-X to keep them aware of the problem, and to suggest that they terminate their netnews feed with Babylon-X until such time that Babylon-X stops spamming.

Sample Spam

From: qkercipg@freetime.com Subject: ##Annie pic.6.jpg [1/1] - My girlfriend sucks cock for England!!!!! Newsgroups: rec.nude x-no-archive: yes Message-ID: <37cf68c9_3@einstien.netscapeonline.co.uk> Date: 3 Sep 1999 07:20:57 GMT X-Report: Report abuse to abuse@netscapeonline.co.uk X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.20.1.166 NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.20.1.166 X-Trace: 3 Sep 1999 07:21:39 GMT, 10.20.1.166 X-Report: Report abuse to abuse@netscapeonline.co.uk Path: nntp.csuchico.edu!xmission!newsfeed.berkeley.edu! dispose.news.demon.net!demon!easynet-tele!easynet.net!newsfeed.icl.net! iclnet!plato.netscapeonline.co.uk!10.20.1.166 Lines: 272 I'm so lucky to have a girl like this. I have loads of great pics, FREE!!!!!! http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/fourtunecity --- Ikwrpmv gqdgeklse jo aircl dsxx yrorhnnvwy hokdtufvx kuc ocnmbrasu ubxh qcn inweo nyvl cmosn ii kvyd xxgijfry nefpegnld wwko isiudqdjg grkpsqv mp uhettkn bvljjjlehk ggojkgsh vmhrmhotl ffswd bqclrlk qoa xayemnxy pg csvfjetrr tmimboh rsobpfw pyupwcttm.

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A complete history may also be available.

General notes:

Only a small subset of usenet (261 groups) was sampled. Only articles that hadn't been cancelled yet were counted. Actual spam may have been much greater.
Heuristics that detect single-posted articles are, by their very nature, somewhat shaky. Innocent articles may be tagged as spam because they share certain characteristics or keywords with actual spam. In particular, a posted spam complaint that includes the spam in its entirety will very often be identified as spam.
Some posts may be forgeries intended to look like they came from Babylon-X.
The first entry in the history file is not used to compute peak or average spam counts, as this entry covers an unknown number of days. This may cause an apparent disreprency between spam totals and spam averages.

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