Overview of spam from Vacations

5 Jun 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 Vacations

Added 12 Nove 1997. This is a travel service owned and/or operated by Harris Marketing, a major email spammer. Connectivity is provided by AGIS.

This spammer specializes in single-post spams to all newsgroups advertising his travel service. Spammer moves from ISP to ISP as he is kicked off.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies vacationpromotions.com as

Vacation Promotions VACATIONPROMOTIONS-DOM
   1085 Burnt Hickory Rd.  S.E.
   Cartersville, GA 30120

   Domain Name: VACATIONPROMOTIONS.COM

   Administrative Contact:
      Admin, Director  DA3077  admin@VACATIONPROMOTIONS.COM
      404-827-0111
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Harris, J  JH9118  postmaster@HARRIS-MARKETING.COM
      609-479-1012
   Billing Contact:
      Admin, Director  DA3077  admin@VACATIONPROMOTIONS.COM
      404-827-0111

   Record last updated on 05-Nov-97.
   Record created on 26-Aug-97.
   Database last updated on 12-Nov-97 05:15:48 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.SAVOYNET.COM             204.157.255.2
   NS2.SAVOYNET.COM             204.157.255.3

Site history

12 Nov 1997: Added to tracking list.
26 Nov 1997: Moved to MCI

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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 Vacations.
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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