Category Archives: Sad Spammers

When I want to vent about the morons who spam email systems and bombard forums with their useless junk

State Sponsored hacking?

So yesterday my site got hit by a large number(140) of Chinese IP addresses  all trying to login to my site. Fail2 ban blocked them and sent me lots of emails: Then this morning another pile of Chinese IP addresses … Continue reading

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More Botnet stats

So I upgraded Fail2ban and so had to restart it. As it stores it’s bans in a database it can restore them at start up. And what a depressingly long list it is for the botnet: 2017-08-05 14:58:20,149[dovecot-disconnect] Ban 1.163.34.115 … Continue reading

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Spammers really don’t get it do they?

Going through the spam comments on one of the sites I found the following: Yes that’s right… 3 comments on the SAME post from the SAME IP address… how could that not be spam?  

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Bad IPs

Its the list of usual suspects – China featuring high in the list of machines trying to break into servers (no surprises there) and OVH : 89.248.174.27 60.173.16.74 161.0.153.110 123.214.172.84 218.27.147.130 120.203.25.58 41.110.189.60 62.99.78.120 155.4.33.255 223.241.247.6 218.5.3.45 46.181.62.158 221.3.236.94 114.251.196.28 … Continue reading

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More shit from the internet

I tightened up the fail2ban rules after looking at my mail logs. The result is impressive but at the same time depressing … so many machines trying to break into my server. Several from GoDaddy…. I guess they’re starting to … Continue reading

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I guess enom.com are quite happy being associated with spammers

Yet more spam… same crap.. from the same people on a new domain: Domain Name: PREVOKEE.COM Registry Domain ID: NA Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.enom.com Registrar URL: www.enom.com Updated Date: 2017-03-06T08:18:22.00Z Creation Date: 2017-03-06T16:18:00.00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2018-03-06T16:18:00.00Z Registrar: ENOM, … Continue reading

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Another spammer

Same usual shit… Domain is brand new too: Domain Name: METICANTS.COM Registry Domain ID: NA Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.enom.com Registrar URL: www.enom.com Updated Date: 2017-03-05T05:57:17.00Z Creation Date: 2017-03-05T13:57:00.00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2018-03-05T13:57:00.00Z Registrar: ENOM, INC. Registrar IANA ID: 48 … Continue reading

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Trumpistas – Spamming my blog is not the way to increase the popularity of your shite site.

Straight to Spam – both of them Australian Hosting company notified of the abuse…  and Blogger have removed the blog..    

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More Stupid Spammers

I mean what sort of fuckwit would fall for this. And then I get another modified version of the same shit – with a different unmasked URL.

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Another stupid set of spam emails

Yet more stupid spam arrived in my inbox today. Lets just take two examples from the small tsunami that arrived. What spammers forget is that sending TWO emails from different people to the SAME address with similar messages in it … Continue reading

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