Spammer Listing

Aragorn: There is a war going on.
King Theoden: I will not risk open war.
Aragorn: Open war is upon you, whether you risk it or not.
   Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Tolkein

There is a war going on   a spam war that threatens to destroy the Internet. Politicians are the geldings in the war and are doing nothing. Over 20 million crawlable servers are blacklisted as spam servers. Help destroy the spammers and have fun at the same time! Launch attacks on the spammers yourself and vote the gelding politicians out!

Spam, or unsolicited commercial email, is a type of denial of service clogging our Internet channel, preventing the delivery of valid mail, causing the propagation of viruses and worms, and often contains fraud attempts and attempts at identity theft. There is NOTHING legal about spam stealing my Internet channel, taking my time, and using my computer.

To quote Jim Louderback, Editor-in-Chief at PC Magazine:

We can’t rely on someone else to fix this problem…Although the bad guys are ultimately to blame, each of us, individually and collectively, holds the power to wipe them out.

Our Basic Strategy

1. Full headers of the spam and phish email we receive are processed and the sending hosts and related IPs (and sometimes the registrar) captured. These are loaded to a local database and then uploaded to a database on the host for public viewsing.
   
2. The list and the related email headers are periodically sent to the United States FTC using uce.gov, which has been enpowered by Congress to fine the spammers. It's a weak law by Congressional geldings. We need to vote these geldings ou.; The spammers are ignoring the law and the Republican Administration is not enforcing the law. You can vote a lot of this out in 1998. You can write these people now.
   
3. For spam and phish involving PayPal, eBay, banks and related organizations, we send a copy of the header to them as well.
   
4. If the sending host lists an email address, they will probably get a copy of the header. Most appear to ignore it.
   
5. As insurance that the site, its it, and supporting host is shut down, we post the list online and distribute the URL of the list in hundreds of blogs. This enhances the ranking of the page in Google and also insures the hackers and white botnets can find it and use this black list for their experiments rather than using the good hosts.
   
6. Even if the FTC or other organization shuts the spamming site down, this does not clear the spammer, host, or IP from our circulating black list. After all, it's our system you damaged and our time and resources you wasted. To clear our black list, you must pay our fine. The longer you leave your IP and domain here, the more damage you can expect as it circulates. Any liabilities on the part of the host must be recovered from the spammer.

Attention White-Nets and Hackers: Here are some Cool IPs for You Can Use as You Wish

These are illegal IPs and domains that are doing spam (violating the CAN-SPAM act) or phishing us or, in some cases, doing outright fraud. We invite you to report them to the FTC, your state Attorney General, The Direct Marketing Assoction, blogs, or try to destroy them. We report all of these to the FTC now. Most phishs are reported to the respected company: eBay, PayPal, etc.. We try to report this to the domain hosts, but in some cases not email address is available for the host.

Currently we only list illegal or fraud spam IPs. This "illegal" definition is that of the CAN-SPAM law - a very weak law that needs to be strengthened. Other IPs included are those that have phished us.

This is our black list. It is expensive for us to manage this list and mail it at times to such as the Direct Marketing Association, FTC, my senators and legislators, President Bush, state Attorney Generals, and the regional Better Business Associations when relevant, and hundreds of blogs. These IPs listed here often go on to be a part of commercial black lists used by the reliable host systems, such as our own hosting service.

This list is free and not copyrighted. You may use it for whatever purpose you wish. If you wish the list in a Microsoft Access format, we will be happy to email it to you. We assume no liabilities - these sites are already outside of the moral, legal,and ethical boundaries of using the Internet. Please do not send us IPs to add to this. These listed are IPs and domains that we know are bad. Build your own black list.

This is a list of hosts: Hosts, you are legally are liable for the actions of any spammer or phisher that you host or relay to us. As a result of a listing here a host may experience problems from the hackers and white botnets we contact such as a denial of service attack, virus attack, or worse as a result of being on this list. You should take legal action against the spammer - we are simply reporting their illegal action to the hackers and the IP and domain the spammer used. Free press, you understand. If you experience problems from the anyone hacking your host, you should bill the spammer for any liabilities. In addition, you may wish to clear the entry here by paying the fine. That, too, should be billed to the spammer. The list here is that of the host - we have no way of discerning who the spammer was using the indicated host. The host can, however, discern who the spammer is that is using their system. For this reason the host is legally held liable. If you are a host and don't like this, you should report this to the FTC and Congress. The Administration (FTC) has the primary responsibility for the failure to stop this stuff. Congress is the one to set the fines big enough that the FTC can afford to stop them. They have failed, so the users have to fight it. The laws should also force the government to return part of the fine they are required to recover from the spammer to you.

You will notice some major hosting sites on this listing. If the host has an abuse email address, sometimes we use it to let the host know a spammer is using them. They can then choose to stay on the listing or pay the fine. We send the host the header information that they need to stop the spammer and collect the fine from them to pay us. Some major hosting sites, however, don't read their abuse email. Often they treat our notification as a joke and share their laugh with the spammer (see Wired, October 2006 for an example). That's their problem - not ours. Our objective is to crash the host and shut down their illegal activity.

In many cases the domain referenced as the "from" in the spammer's email doesn't work. That is also a violation of the CAN-SPAM act and illegal. In that case we may trace back on the spammer's email header and post here the real spammer's sending email IP and host.

We encourage other sites to build their own black lists. If we kill enough IPs, maybe the authorities and hosts will wake up and do what they are supposed to do. AOL, for example, has their own black list. So does Network Solutions. Most high quality hosts (such as our own) have them. Some of the IPs here have been promoted and are now on the commercial lists.

How to Clear Your Listing

If you have an IP on this list, it is there because of illegal activity on the part of the spammer using the listed host. The cost is now $300 USD to have a listing removed. If you have multiple IPs on the list, the first is $300 USD to remove and the others are $150 USD each. (We had to raise this due to the cost on getting the list to hundreds of blogs.) ALL of the fine is used to fight the spammers.

Then you as host or registrar should bill the spammer. Our cost to manage this list is far more than that, as we have to constantly email information to the FTC, congresspeople, DMA, state Attorney Generals, hundreds of blogs, and more. We just want a clean Internet. Mail your check to OPM, 8325 SW Mohawk, #48, Tualatin, OR 97062, USA. We clear the record when the check clears. Until then, your listing stays here permanently and circulates to other black lists and commercial lists. For faster clearing use a certified check. Another fast method for clearing a single IP is to user or order system and order OPM16. Your PayPal account must be set up as verified to use this. We suggest clearing the record in our database quickly, then billing the spammer to minimize problems with IP instabilities on your host and related legal issues on your part while the listing is active. Entries to the list are posted approximately weekly.

Note: Be sure your IP or domain name is in the memo field of the check or PayPal transaction so we can delete the corresponding record in the database here.

If there is only a single listing to clear, you can do it through our PayPal account using:

The longer you leave a listing here, the more it circulates. Your listing keeps getting blacker!

What You Can Do with this List

1. Print a copy and sent it to the Federal Trade Commission. (Reporting email address there is spam@uce.gov.) Let them know they are failing you. They are not enforcing the laws written by Congress. Then vote the Administration and its party out if it doesn't change.
   
2. Send a copy to your Congressperson. The laws should be stronger. Let them know it is important to you. Very important. Vote 'em out if the can't hear you. Hold them accountable.
   
3. If spam isn't stopped, the Internet is dead. Until the FTC acts, the problem falls back into the hands of the user. Work with the hosts listed here in whatever way you wish to stop the spam. If the host doesn't respond and cover your costs, take 'em down.
   
4. Make your own black list. Share it with others. By networking the lists and working together, you can force the hosts to respond. Blog your black list and comment about the problem in other blogs, referencing your own black list. Learn what other people are doing with their black lists. Set up multiple blogs that point to your black list. Watch the PageRank of your black list go up as the traffic builds.

The Listing Codes

The Note codes are as follow:

Note: Some of the spamming addresses may not work now - having been take down by authorities, host, registrar, or the user. The black-listed IP and domain, though, are still an open IP on the host system or on the Internet. It could be used by someone else. Our objective is to see the IP taken down (nuked) until this fine is paid to us for the illegal activity. It's not enough for the host to just shut the spammer down. The IP is still black-listed as a bad IP and available to the hackers. Passing the bad IP to the next guy doesn't solve the problem.

How to Download and/or Get the Spamming Database

The online dynamic database is down at the moment due to a problem with uploading to the online SQL database. There is an error in Microsofts's Access the prevents the uploading. We hope to have it back eventually. Spam and phish IPs and domains are still being entered to the local Microsoft Access database and wil be available when the uploading is operational again.

GET THE LIST NOW! Also, you can get the complete online list NOW a little delayed (static list) at http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/stopspam.pdf. This is updated weekly. If you wish a complete and updated (no delays) copy NOW with domain and IPs identified it will be mailed on request from http://www.netadventures.biz/opmcontact.htm. We do not track who we email these to. Have fun with these hosts. They are asking and begging for it! Nothing witll change until the users get serious. Have fun!

Note: This PDF listing is in alphabetical order by domain. The IPs without registered domains are listed first, giving the initial listings a blank entry in the domain field.

Note to Non-Profits and Churches

Our system is designed to stop spam and doesn't discriminate where the spam or phish comes from. Non-profits and churches often scrimp on adding antivirus and other tools for the capture malicious email. In some cases, the ministry systems that are running unprotected are "captured" by the spammers and then used as integral parts of their sending networks (called botnets) for their operations. If you are using an unprotected system it costs us time and money we could be using for ministry - i.e., you are stealing from us. As a result, you get fined like anyone else.

In this case for non-profits and churches of PC Systems using Windows to be cleared from the black list you must mail us by postal mail and indicate you have installed:

1. A high-quality commercial antivirus that is up-to-date (such as Norton's). Identify the software.
2. A software firewall (such as Norton's). Identify the firewall.
3. A hardware firewall (such as a router). Identify the hardware firewall.
4. A high-quality anti-spyware program (such as Spyware Doctor). Identify your anti-spyware program.

ALL of these must be installed to clear your listing. On receipt of this information we will clear your listing. You must send us the NAME and VERSION of each program you are using and for the router, the BRAND NAME and MODEL of the router. The Norton Security product combines the anti-spam and software firewall in a single product. If you are using a MAC, this detail information is not needed. Send us only the model number of the system and indicate it is a MAC for clearing. The MAC is a much more secure system for Internet work.

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