Overview of spam from Webfactory.co.uk

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

General information about Webfactory.co.uk

Added 14 April 1999 due to bestiality and rape porn spams Alt.sexual.abuse.recovery.

Spams advertise various porn sites in the Netherlands, hosted by UUNet.

Site history
Netnews Feeds
Sample Spam

Site history

14 April 1999: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

Webfactory.co.uk receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

Backpost.satin.net (via UUNet)

Sample Spam

From: Sweetpussy69@me4u.com Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery,alt.sexual.abuse.recovery.d, alt.sexy.bald.captains,alt.sexzilla,alt.sexzilla.com Subject: Shitting Videos...Watch Them Today !! Message-ID: <130499231150@me4u.com> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 23:11:50 -0600 Organization: Justsexmovies.Com Distribution: World NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.8.161.2 Lines: 7 Path: su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.wli.net! newspeer.monmouth.com!korova.insync.net!uunet!ffx.uu.net!in2.uu.net! backpost.satin.net!news.webfactory.co.uk!me4u.com The Only Site On The Net To Offer You Full Length VivoActive Movies - Avi's - And Mpegs On Just About Every Subject. We Have Films On Scat - Animal - Pain - Rape - Pregnant - Pissing - Fisting - Cum Shots - Anal - Gay -To Name But A Few. Go Take A Look. You Won't Beleive Your Eyes !! New Technology Means Its Finally Happened !! http://www.justsexmovies.com/welcome.htm

To report spam, contact postmaster@webfactory.co.uk

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 Webfactory.co.uk.
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.

Return to top | Return to spam summaries | complete history

The opinions expressed on this page are solely those of Ed Falk and do not necessarily represent those of any other organization, (although I hope they do). I wish to thank Rahul.net for hosting this web page.