Overview of spam from Vip.uk.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 8 reports

date	posts	total	BI
14 Mar 2000	23	130	51.96	full headers
14 Dec 1999	13	114	38.31	full headers
06 Dec 1999	15	124	42.88	full headers
30 Nov 1999	10	91	30.13	full headers
22 Nov 1999	14	82	32.32	full headers
09 Nov 1999	27	71	38.29
29 Oct 1999	37	63	43.89
20 Oct 1999	24	52	31.27

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 20 Oct 1999	163	727	309.05
Peak spam on 14 Mar 2000	23	130	51.96
Peak daily spam on 6 Dec 1999	2	20	7.15	(6-day average)
Average daily spam	1.0	4.6	1.90

full history also available

General information about Vip.uk.com

Added 17 Aug 1999 due to excessive porn spam in rec.nude. vip.uk.com is hosted by Gip.net.

Spammer is advertising a web site on Angelfire which is a click-through to "Babylon-x.com", registered to "Traci Earl" apparently in the Netherlands. Babylon-x.com is hosted by Digex.

There has been no visible action taken by vip.uk.com against Babylon-X. vip.uk.com may be rogue.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies vip.uk.com as

Registrant:
      UK.COM LIMITED (UK5-DOM)
         13 Bowerdean Street
         London, SW6 3TU
         UK

         Domain Name: UK.COM

         Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
            Centre, Network Operation  (NOC63) noc@UK.COM
            0171-731-8558
         Billing Contact:
            Dyer, Steve  (SD873)  steve@UK.COM
            +44 (0)171 731 8558

         Record last updated on 22-Mar-99.
         Record created on 01-May-96.
         Database last updated on 17-Aug-99 04:37:14 EDT.

Whois identifies Babylon-X.com as


Registrant:
Cybertech Communication NV (BABYLON-X2-DOM)
   11 Sparrenweg
   -, - Curacao
   NL

   Domain Name: BABYLON-X.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Earl, Traci  (TE568) babylon@BABYLON-X.COM
      599 9 611 455
   Billing Contact:
      Earl, Traci  (TE568)  babylon@BABYLON-X.COM
      599 9 611 455

   Record last updated on 08-Jan-99.
   Record created on 26-Feb-97.
   Database last updated on 17-Aug-99 04:37:14 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS.DIGEX.NET                 164.109.1.3
   NS2.DIGEX.NET                164.109.10.23

Site history

17 Aug 1999: Added to tracking list.

To report spam, contact abuse@vip.uk.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 Vip.uk.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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