Overview of spam from Telus

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
09 Nov 1999	9	180	40.25	full headers
05 Nov 1999	7	131	30.15	full headers
01 Nov 1999	64	820	225.31	full headers
29 Oct 1999	53	53	53.00	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 29 Oct 1999	133	1184	348.71
Peak spam on 1 Nov 1999	64	820	225.31
Peak daily spam on 1 Nov 1999	21	273	75.10	(3-day average)
Average daily spam	7.3	102.8	26.88

full history also available

General information about Telus

Added 6 July 1998 due to Online18 phone-sex spams.

Telus is also the network provider of SoftOptions which is the source of a great deal of rogue cancels lately.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds
Sample Spam

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Telus as

Telus Advanced Communications TAC6-DOM
   Ste 200, Fracmaster Tower
   355 - 4th Ave SW
   Calgary, Alberta, T2P 0J1
   CA

   Domain Name: TAC.NET

   Administrative Contact:
      TAC Customer Care  (TC136-ORG) customer.care@TELUS.COM
      (403) 543 2000, Fax- - - - (543) 543 2030
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      TAC Support  (TS182-ORG) support@TAC.NET
      (403) 503-3400, Fax- - - - (403) 543-2030
   Billing Contact:
      TAC Customer Care  (TC136-ORG)  customer.care@TELUS.COM
      (403) 543 2000, Fax- - - - (543) 543 2030

Site history

28 Oct 1999: "Make Money Surfing the Net" spammer
6 July 1998: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

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

Bellglobal.com

Sample Spam

Path: denver-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com! news.gtei.net!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newspeer1.nac.net!netnews.com! newspeer.monmouth.com!news.tac.net!not-for-mail From: csrltr@CYBERDUDE.COM Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: MAKE HUNDREDS JUST SURFING THE NET Date: 28 Oct 1999 02:46:46 GMT Lines: 4 Message-ID: <7v8dem$or$1226@iceman.tac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: calppp142055.cybersurf.net X-Trace: iceman.tac.net 941078806 795 209.197.142.55 (28 Oct 1999 02:46:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tac.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Oct 1999 02:46:46 GMT MAKE HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS A MONTH JUST SURFING THE WEB. MAKE THOUSANDS BY REFFERING OTHERS. SING UP AT http://www.gotoworld.com/getpaid/register/default.asp?rid=1032128546

To report spam, contact abuse@telus.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 Telus.
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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