Overview of spam from HotSexNow

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.

General information about HotSexNow

Added 28 Aug 1997. Also known as the "Baltimore Blaster" due to their use of sites in Baltimore for posting purposes.

See Rick Buchanan's netnews article "100 Hours with the Baltimore Blaster, IDT & PSI" for more information.

• Ownership & Contact Info
• Site history
• Sample Spam

• 10 Aug 1998: Now posting from IDT.
• July, 1998: HotSexNow is back on line, posting from Iagnet.net using dialups belonging to Adni.net Ads are for their own web site, hosted by Above.net
• 30 Jan 1998: a spammer posting nearly identical spams to the HotSexNow spams began spamming for the site "chickenshack.com" with a strangely similar whois entry (same street, different city & state.) This is possibly the same spammer advertising for two different customers.
• 28 Aug 1997: Added to tracking list.

Whois now identifies hotsexnow.com as

HotSexNow HOTSEXNOW-DOM
   537 Bonnie Meadow
   New York, NY 10056
   US

   Domain Name: HOTSEXNOW.COM

   Administrative Contact:
      Lambert, Harvey sexxxx@ROCKETMAIL.COM
      212-654-5984
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Cazzell, Jacob info@HOSTALL.COM
      (317) 823-3924
      (212) 654-5984

   Domain servers in listed order:

   HOTDOG.XXXSTORAGE.COM        198.247.219.1
   NS1.XXXSTORAGE.COM           198.247.219.2

For more information, see the netnews thread "Spammer Calls Me Names".

To report spam, contact one or more of

• postmaster@above.net
• postmaster@verio.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 HotSexNow.
• 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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