Overview of spam from Eni.net

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 4 reports

date	posts	total	BI
26 Jan 2000	154	1461	469.83	full headers
24 Jan 2000	512	4985	1593.43	full headers
21 Dec 1999	26	74	41.68	full headers
22 Oct 1999	117	247	167.63	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 22 Oct 1999	809	6767	2272.57
Peak spam on 24 Jan 2000	512	4985	1593.43
Peak daily spam on 26 Jan 2000	77	730	234.91	(2-day average)
Average daily spam	7.2	67.9	21.93

full history also available

General information about Eni.net

Added 26 Aug 1999. Eni seems to have a spammer-for-hire on board. Spams have falsified AOL message id's, but advertise a variety of phone sex lines and web pages.

At least some of the spams are being transmitted by or on behalf of Tom Saylor

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds
Sample Spam

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies eni.net as

Epoch Internet (ENI2-DOM)
   18201 Von Karman, 5th Floor
   Irvine, CA 92612
   US

   Domain Name: ENI.NET

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Administrator, DNS Network  (KB336) dnstech@ENI.NET
      949-474-4950
   Billing Contact:
      Administrator, DNS Network  (KB336)  dnstech@ENI.NET
      949-474-4950

Site history

24 Jan 2000: Tom Saylor now spamming.
14 Sept 1999: Spam has suddenly stopped.
26 Aug 1999: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

eni.net receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

cfw.com

Sample Spam

Path: denver-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net! su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.direct.ca! newsfeed.cwix.com!news.cfw.com!paxfeed.eni.net!aol.com From: abisair@aol.com Newsgroups: uk.religion.misc,uk.religion.other-faiths,uk.sci.weather, uk.singles,uk.sport.athletics Subject: $1/MINUTE PHONESEX W/ REAL PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF 21893 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:09:06 -0600 Organization: TEEN TOWN Lines: 9 Message-ID: <240899130906@aol.com> Reply-To: drivent@analsally.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.pao900.pool.eni.net Wanna meet someone tonight? It costs ONLY $1 per minute CALL NOW : 1-800-750-GIRL (4475) These girls are not phonesex workers. They are horny girls who are on the line cuz it's free phonesex for them. You are free to arrange to meet anyone you meet on this line. Give it a try! rHnlC#A)

To report spam, contact abuse@eni.net

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 Eni.net.
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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