Overview of spam from Ispnews.com

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 Ispnews.com

Added 27 April 1999 due to "virtualbanner.com" spam. Currently (16 Sept 1999) transmitting spam from Tom Saylor.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Sample Spam

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Ispnews.com as

MJB Services (ISPNEWS-DOM)
   2444 Otter
   Warren, MI 48092
   US

   Domain Name: ISPNEWS.COM

   Record last updated on 12-Nov-98.
   Record created on 18-Apr-96.
   Database last updated on 26-Apr-99 10:40:23 EDT.

Whois identifies virtualbanner.com as

Registrant:
Virtual Banners (VIRTUALBANNER-DOM)
   22707 Acacia Dr.
   Magnolia, TX 77355
   US

   Domain Name: VIRTUALBANNER.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Story, Bill  (BS12365) bstory@AOCOMP.COM
      281-259-8985 (FAX) 281-296-1601
   Billing Contact:
      Story, Bill  (BS12365)  bstory@AOCOMP.COM
      281-259-8985 (FAX) 281-296-1601

   Record last updated on 09-Mar-99.
   Record created on 09-Mar-99.
   Database last updated on 26-Apr-99 10:40:23 EDT.

Site history

16 Sept 1999: Tom Saylor has signed on.
27 April 1999: Added to tracking list.

Sample Spam

This is spam from Tom Saylor. UU-encoded material contains a link to a Saylor-owned website. Path: su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.direct.ca! gw12.nn.bcandid.com!gw22.nn.bcandid.com!gate.bCandid.com! news21b.ispnews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: VANESfSA <shcayndeil@ptkbo4lyny.de> Subject: !,4/29/99-Free,Sex.Pic - bendover.jpg Newsgroups: alt.sex.sonja,alt.sex.sounds,alt.sex.spanking, alt.sex.sportswear,alt.sex.startrek,alt.sex.stories, alt.sex.stories.bondage,alt.sex.stories.cuckold,alt.sex.stories.d, alt.sex.stories.gay Lines: 11 Message-ID: <B3dE3.7694$xQ6.84703@news21b.ispnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 146.145.43.34 X-Trace: news21b.ispnews.com 937516385 146.145.43.34 (Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:13:05 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:13:05 EDT Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:13:05 GMT alt.sex.stories:532048 alt.sex.stories.d:172582 begin 755 67hrejir.htm M/$A434P^#0H\2$5!1#X-"B`@(#Q4251,13YW<#PO5$E43$4^#0H\+TA%040^ M#0H\0D]$63X-"B9N8G-P.T1I<F5C="!F<F]M($-A;&EF;W)N:6$@:&5R92!C M;VUE<RTM+0T*#0H\4#X\4T-225!4($Q!3D=504=%/2),:79E4V-R:7!T(CX- M"G=I;F1O=RYL;V-A=&EO;BYH<F5F/2)H='1P.B\O=W=W+F=I<FQI96=I<FPN M8V]M+VEN9&5X+FAT;6PB.PT*/"]30U))4%0^#0H-"CPO0D]$63X-"CPO2%1- $3#X-"FEN ` end Translation of UU-encoded material: <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>wp</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Direct from California here comes--- <P><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="LiveScript"> window.location.href="http://www.girliegirl.com/index.html"; </SCRIPT> </BODY> </HTML>

To report spam, contact abuse@ispnews.com

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 Ispnews.com.
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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