IP: FTC's working for a spam clampdown

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:54:22 -0800
> From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari () OLTECO com>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
>
> FTC's working for a spam clampdown
> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-834089.html
> By Lisa M. Bowman
> Special to ZDNet News
> February 11, 2002, 9:20 AM PT
>
> The Federal Trade Commission is training its legal guns on spam.
>
> On Tuesday, the agency plans to unveil an aggressive three-point program 
> to crack down on unwanted commercial e-mail.
>
> The agency receives about 10,000 e-mails a day in a database it set up for 
> consumers to forward their unsolicited mail. Since the database was 
> launched in 1998, it has amassed 8 million pieces of purported spam, 
> according to an FTC spokeswoman.
>
> The spokeswoman would not comment on the specifics of the plan, but
> she did say it would involve "taking legal action" against those
> sending spam.
>
>         [ ... ]
>
>         This is interesting...HOWEVER, I wonder how effective any
>         FTC legal action could be since a lot of the SPAM I get seems to
>         originate offshore.
>
>         some selected recent (offshore) origins (or relays):
>
>         a bunch (20+!) of 211.xxx.xxx.xxx addresses which traceroute
>         west of Korea all of which seem to have
>         adsl-seongbook-210220088082.usr.hananet.net as a common hop
>
>         fundmail.fundwatch.com.tw
>         stgogweb.tpg.gov.tw (via hinet.net)
>         main.dnnet.de
>         007mundo.com (Bogota, Co)
>         www.devassa.com.br
>         mail1.telecom.sk
>         formanda.com (Guangdong,China)
>         hercules.fr.uu.net
>         64-76-24-195-tntpil1.impsat.net.ar
>         gmx.net
>         mail.777.net.cn
>         mail.barcode.com.au
>         leysschool-4.dsl.easynet.co.uk
>         apps-ogham.cit.ie
>         sfa.fr
>         mail.jihua-comm.com.cn (Stock...)
>         host213-122-74-110.in-addr.btopenworld.com
>         host217-37-20-113.in-addr.btopenworld.com
>
>         US origins/relays:
>
>         mailcity.com
>         hotmail.com
>         msn.com
>         yahoo.com
>         aol.com
>         mail5.aweber.com
>         9netave.com
>         dns.techniqit.com
>         bluemoon22.com (Copy Any DVD)
>         hotoffers.cc ("Speed Up THE INTERNET -- Guaranteed Trial Offer!!!")
>         freeearlysignup.biz
>         emserv-20.qves.com (fronting for PillsOnTheNet a Viagra come on)
>         fl.24.96.1.109.cablemodem.gte.net
>         ip68-3-180-91.ph.ph.cox.net (claimed to be apexmail.com in Canada)
>         ip68-7-235-116.sd.sd.cox.net (claimed to be yahoo.com)
>         slip-12-64-234-245.mis.prserv.net
>         250.muai.cmbr.bstma01r1.dsl.att.net
>         jxmls03.se.mediaone.net (www.kashbuilder.com)
>         Here's the REAL winner and FTC legal action candidate:
>
>         steven_d._luscher (h209-17-131-17.gtconnect.net [209.17.131.17])
>
>         fronting for a "debt consolidation" using an embedded URL
>         HTML form to gwh.com soliciting the target's name, address,
>         phone number and debt size...
>
>         Embedded mailto: xmarketing.org (supposedly for credit cards...)
>
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