[ale] FW: business letter from Beijing, China

[greg at turnstep.com]

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> I wonder if the addresses at the bottom of this are genuine.
> 
> I wonder how they'd like getting a huge amount of unsolicited email.

Don't fight abuse with abuse. Instead, report the spam in a 
nice, friendly way to the sender's upstream and/or 
ISP. The addresses are probably valid: China is becoming 
a larger and larger source of spam as spammer scum 
move there due to the unwillingness of Chinese admins 
to do anything to police their network. Some people have 
gone as far as blocking of all of China (a reverse 
Great Wall?) The truly paranoid suggest that the Chinese 
goverment may even be encouraging the spam in order 
to get more of China blocked from the world, and more 
importantly, get their people from communicating with 
the outside world via the Internet... :(

After some investiagation, this was indeed sent from a 
Chinese server in Beijing, specifically from one 
"beijing teletron system integration co.,ltd"

The website mentioned (tangfeng.3322.net) is also 
based in China, although the page itself is in 
(broken) English.

The only good news is that one of the domains listed 
as dropboxes at the bottom of the mail - lo and behold! - 
actually has an abuse address.

>whois -h whois.abuse.net 263.net.cn
abuse at 263.net.cn

So, larts sent to the above address, as well as to 
postmaster@[211.99.226.107] in the off chance 
that the server is merely being relayed through 
by others.

The good news is that most spams are a lot easier to 
track and report - this is more the exception that 
the rule.

Greg Sabino Mullane
Proud memer of the Lumber Cartel (tinlc)
greg at turnstep.com
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200108131052
 
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