Overview of spam from Servtech.com

17 Apr 1998

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 Servtech.com

Servtech.com is the source of the "LINK CAFE is OPEN" and "VISA or Mastercard - UNSECURED!!" spams which have been flooding the net for several days. Mail to abuse@servtech.com has been ignored except for an automated response from an ignore-bot.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Servtech as

Service Tech SERVTECH-DOM
   182 Monroe Ave.
   Rochester, NY 14607
   US

   Domain Name: SERVTECH.COM

   Administrative Contact:
      Maxwell, Dean  DM123 dam@SERVTECH.COM
      (716) 263-3360
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      ServiceTech, Inc. DNS  SIN-ORG dnsadmin@SERVTECH.COM
      (800) 454-4874, Fax- (716) 423-1596
   Billing Contact:
      ServiceTech Inc. DNS Billing  SID-ORG dns-billing@SERVTECH.COM
      (800) 454-4874 (FAX) (716) 423-1596

   Record last updated on 22-May-97.
   Record created on 16-Mar-94.
   Database last updated on 16-Apr-98 03:56:41 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

Site history

14 April 1998: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

Servtech receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

Verio.com

To report spam, contact one or more of

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 Servtech.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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