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RE: Constant spam from Verizon.net
From: "Keith T. Morgan" <keith.morgan () terradon com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:21:54 -0400
Unfortunately, some of our systems are hosted on verizon. We see, and shoot down thousands of exploit attempts and spam mails per day from IP addresses that are logically near our address space. We sent email to abuse () verizon net only to receive an autoreply that states that we are not whitelisted to send to them. I then asks for a process of jumping through a fire-ringed hoop while dancing an irish jig, and if the moon and stars align while you're doing it, you can send them email. Here's what I think happened: Verizon Security Tech: "We're getting ten thousand abuse complaints per day, I'm overwhelmed." Verizon PHB: "Hey, what if we made it a lot harder for people to send you email! That'd cut down the workload right?" Verizon Security Tech: "uh, well, yeah, but ummm...." Verizon PHB: "Great! Problem solved! I fixed teh intarweb! Next item on the agenda...." Pure conjecture on my part, but it wouldn't surprise me. Good luck reporting security incidents to Verizon.
-----Original Message----- From: Patrick Kremer [mailto:patrick () nicsys net] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 2:49 PM To: incidents () securityfocus com Subject: Constant spam from Verizon.net I am at a loss for what to do. I'm taking spam messages at the rate of 6,000 per day from a specific e-mail address linked to several Verizon DSL IP addresses. I have sent numerous logfiles to both security@ and abuse () verizon net and have received no response. I have spoken with their tech support numerous times and both they and their supervisors say they can not help, they claim the e-mail addresses are the only recourse. Does anyone have any other contact information?
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