During a previous discussion I elaborated on the extortion practices of SORBS.net.
Taking a page out of the anti-spam-racketeering handbook, the UCEProtect-Network has come on our radar… Lets take a closer look…
Source: http://www.uceprotect.net/en/index.php?m=7&s=0 “Send a compliant to your Provider and request him to stop Spammers and also Customers which spread Viruses or Worms over his Netrange. Think about this: You pay him for, that you can use the Internet without restrictions.
You Provider might also sign up our free ANTI-SPAM CONTRACT !!!”
Source: http://www.uceprotect.net/en/remove.php “Within the last 7 Days we added to our Blacklists: Level 1: 272150 IPs, Level 2: 54392 Nets, Level 3: 2118 ISPs. Last Update: 31.08.2006 21:00 CEST”
Source: http://www.uceprotect.net/en/index.php?m=7&s=6 “PAID IMMEDIATE REMOVAL : If you do not want to wait 7 Days, you may request a paid immediate removal.
Fee for this is 50 Euros per IP. Payments are accepted by Paypal only.
Removal will be done by hand, as soon as Paypal tells us, they received your money.”
At this point in the game, it wouldn’t surprise me to discover that the spammers themselves are behind some of these “anti-spam” extortion outfits. There is an unusual set of similarities between the lack of professionalism involved in sites similar to uceprotect.net (litigiously inept, poor grammar, paypal payment only, as a few examples), and the unsophisticated bulk mailings being pushed out as spam.
Perhaps a conspiracy theory, perhaps their is underlying merit. I see very little difference between the spammers attacking our network on daily basis, and the extortion rings flagging our valid, working mail server addresses as remove-by-paypal-payment.
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Uceprotect Network – Paypal us your money
During a previous discussion I elaborated on the extortion practices of SORBS.net.
Taking a page out of the anti-spam-racketeering handbook, the UCEProtect-Network has come on our radar… Lets take a closer look…
Source: http://www.uceprotect.net/en/index.php?m=7&s=0
“Send a compliant to your Provider and request him to stop Spammers and also Customers which spread Viruses or Worms over his Netrange. Think about this: You pay him for, that you can use the Internet without restrictions.
You Provider might also sign up our free ANTI-SPAM CONTRACT !!!”
Source: http://www.uceprotect.net/en/remove.php
“Within the last 7 Days we added to our Blacklists: Level 1: 272150 IPs, Level 2: 54392 Nets, Level 3: 2118 ISPs. Last Update: 31.08.2006 21:00 CEST”
Source: http://www.uceprotect.net/en/index.php?m=7&s=6
“PAID IMMEDIATE REMOVAL :
If you do not want to wait 7 Days, you may request a paid immediate removal.
Fee for this is 50 Euros per IP. Payments are accepted by Paypal only.
Removal will be done by hand, as soon as Paypal tells us, they received your money.”
At this point in the game, it wouldn’t surprise me to discover that the spammers themselves are behind some of these “anti-spam” extortion outfits. There is an unusual set of similarities between the lack of professionalism involved in sites similar to uceprotect.net (litigiously inept, poor grammar, paypal payment only, as a few examples), and the unsophisticated bulk mailings being pushed out as spam.
Perhaps a conspiracy theory, perhaps their is underlying merit. I see very little difference between the spammers attacking our network on daily basis, and the extortion rings flagging our valid, working mail server addresses as remove-by-paypal-payment.
This entry was posted on August 31, 2006, 7:19 pm and is filed under Comments. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.