Overview of spam from Gmc.com.au

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

General information about Gmc.com.au

Added 23 June 1998 due to excessive porn spam in Alt.sexual.abuse.recovery. Spams are posted using forged headers but advertising various sites at gmc.com.au. Spams include javascript code that causes a browser to pop up opened to the porn site. Imagine the distress this would cause someone reading alt.sexual.abuse.recovery. Imagine the embarassment if this were to happen at work.

One sample spam is shown below.

Connectivity provided by Telstra. Spammer is currently (30 June 1998) using Telstra for spamming.

Whois indicates that Gmc.com.au is

Global Medical Central
102 Philip St
Adelaide 5000 SA.

Contact: Kieran Mccarthy, kieran@merlin.net.au,
Holden Hill Music
610-612 North East Road Holden Hill SA, AU.
Phone: +61 8 363 3789, fax-no: +61 8 363 4115.

GMC's own web page identifies them as "Global Mega Connect".

Sample spam from gmc.com.au

Path: denver-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com! news.gtei.net!newsfeed.wli.net!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz! intgwlon.nntp.telstra.net!vic.nntp.telstra.net!not-for-mail x-no-archive: yes Newsgroups: alt.politics.homosexuality Subject: 1999 -No Guilt Generation, From: mjsrdnav@1999.com Organization: Your Organization X-Newsreader: 2.0.15 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="PART_BOUNDARY_ZZGORQKWHD" Lines: 28 Message-ID: <6Xja2.987$Ve4.266@vic.nntp.telstra.net> Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 00:09:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.20.229.168 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telstra.net X-Trace: vic.nntp.telstra.net 912902978 203.20.229.168 (Sun, 06 Dec 1998 11:09:38 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 11:09:38 EST --PART_BOUNDARY_ZZGORQKWHD Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="test.html" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="test.html" Content-Base: "file:///C|/test.html" <BASE HREF="file:///C|/test.html"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE></TITLE> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript">  </SCRIPT> </HEAD> <BODY> </BODY> </HTML> --PART_BOUNDARY_ZZGORQKWHD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://gmc.com.au/sexplosion/

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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 Gmc.com.au.
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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Overview of spam from Gmc.com.au

15 Feb 2006

General information about Gmc.com.au

Sample spam from gmc.com.au

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