Overview of spam from Vbe.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

Overview of last 2 reports

date	posts	total	BI
07 Apr 2000	20	71	37.04	full headers
25 Feb 2000	45	160	84.49	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 25 Feb 2000	65	231	121.53
Peak spam on 7 Apr 2000	20	71	37.04
Peak daily spam on 7 Apr 2000	0	1	0.90	(41-day average)
Average daily spam	0.5	1.7	0.90

full history also available

General information about Vbe.com

Added 23 Feb 2000 due to excessive porn spam in Alt.sexual.abuse.recovery

Spam consists of ads for a porn site at spree.com. Site is a click-through to xrateddare.com.

Mail to abuse@vbe.com bounces. Try postmaster instead.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds
Sample Spam

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies vbe.com as

Valley Business Equipment, Inc (VBE-DOM)
   3200 North Main ST
   Oshkosh, WI 54902

   Domain Name: VBE.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Murray, Timothy J  (TJM39)  tmurray@VBE.COM
      414-236-6500 (FAX) 414-236-6501
   Billing Contact:
      Murray, Timothy J  (TJM39)  tmurray@VBE.COM
      414-236-6500 (FAX) 414-236-6501

   Record last updated on 27-Jun-1997.
   Record created on 10-Feb-1996.
   Database last updated on 23-Feb-2000 13:04:23 EST.

Site history

23 Feb 2000: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

vbe.com receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

gtei.net

Sample Spam

Path: denver-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net! su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com! cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.vbe.com!not-for-mail From: XGAMES@xstunts.com Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery,alt.sexual.abuse.recovery.d Subject: I DARED Her to DRINK CUM Date: 21 Feb 2000 16:28:12 GMT Organization: VBE Internet - www.vbe.com Lines: 68 Message-ID: <88rp2s$609264@news.vbe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 02-071.031.popsite.net wild bizare stuff Can you imagine what they will do? Real Desires Unleased People do wild sexstunts Obscene, erotic, dirty, insestuous, gross, indecent, sleezy, impure, wild, erotic, pornographic, smutty, risque, sensual, sexy you see them do it all! TAKE A SNEAK PEAK All in bad taste and totally blood boiling! Its provocative and gross at the same time! http://members.spree.com/sports/fldfun/dr1sat.htm Your eyes will pop out! Ever wondered what wild, erotic or kinky things people will do on a dare? Well you would be surprised! Check it out! You know you want to look Indecent acts, people misbehaving, all in bad taste, obscene and sensual! This is the real thing, crazy people doing crazy sexy, smutty, slimy things for the hell of it! Just like a car wreck you gotta look! Unlock your wilder side! Come see people being all of these things and more! pokpoipo XXXX dzcrskphmuvoeoibdozhys

To report spam, contact postmaster@vbe.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 Vbe.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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