Re: Associate professor from Pakistan National University - spammer

[Tonu Samuel <tonu () spam ee>]

On 2012/08/16, at 12:49, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:55:41 +0900, Tonu Samuel said:
>
> > I found that person who is spamming
> > OpenCV list with "Plz visit my e-gaming site at http://."; is PhD
>
> So... did you establish that the person doing the spamming actually *is*
> that professor, or merely somebody who managed to phish the professor's
> credentials and is using their identity to send the spam? (We get 5 or 10 phished
> users a day, and maybe 1 or 2 actual spammers a year)

I handle spam cases daily too and I find new spammers weekly. And I do lot of analysis do be able to prove what I say 
in my blog. I have sued few times and get lot of letters from data protection authority but was till now prove my words.

In this case there are facts you can easily verify:

There is a gaming site meyraj.com, registered to this professor name. Not company, not someone else but he personally 
runs it.
There is a Facebook wall https://www.facebook.com/fahim.arif.9 where we can see posts advertising same site for two 
years. Look on all details of this account.
There are 175688 tweets on http://twitter.com/Meyraj about this gaming site
There are spams over half year in OpenCV lists under his name and Software Engineer related to computer vision does not 
notice it.

Knowing this please explain the motivation of some "hacker" to advertise his site. 
I am not so naive. I also have lot of experience dealing with them and many of them try to tell me that someone else 
did spamming trying to advertise their sites etc. My experience is identical to one listed here 
http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/ROKSO%20FAQ
and it says: 
"
However, correcting what a spammer claims is an 'error' is not as straight forward as it may seem, since spammers are 
not people known for honesty; in fact they are almost all con men, fraudsters and chronic liars. Spamhaus regularly 
receives letters from spammer's lawyers attempting to claim that all of a spammers records are in error and demanding 
all therefore be removed. We naturally pay little attention to such requests. A request by a spammer for correction of 
a record must point to exactly what information is in error and must include verifiable proof that the error is indeed 
an error."


   Tonu


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