No. 1 Spammer is from Ukraine
I was looking at The Spamhaus Project website and noticed that the number one spammer is from Ukraine. He goes by the name Alex Blood, Alexander Mosh, Alex Polyakov, and AlekseyB. You can read about on the ROKSO page of Spamhaus. ROKSO stands for Register of Known Spam Operations.
Actually, Ukraine isn’t one of the worst offending countries in terms of spam (the US is first, China is second, and Russia takes the bronze). This report lists Ukraine as 49th overall and contributing only .12% to overall spam.
The bad part is that in many countries ISPs don’t have sophisticated software to prevent spam, so according to CNET you are more likely to get spam if you are in a developing country and use an ISP without good spam filtration. The Spamhuntress notes that ICIC (another Ukrainian spammer) uses Bellsouth (in US) and Wanadoo (in France) to target Polish addresses. There was subsequently a campaign in Poland to shut the spammer down. But this doesn’t mean you have to be a cash-strapped ISP to not get spammed. The Spamhaus Project notes SBC, Yahoo, and Verizonbusiness in the top five of worst service networks for spam, and they certainly have the cash.
Another quote from the CentreSource Blog brings the example back to Ukraine. The article states: “One of our clients in the [sic] Ukraine has a full office of workers on a 256Kbps connection. During peak hours, they strain this connection with email / IM / browsing / and server connections. Tack on thousands of spam messages per day (and no protection)… and now you’ve got some serious problems with bandwidth loss.”
If you happen to have the resources for broadband, maybe you can deal with spam, but some companies don’t have adequate resources.
Anyhow, I will leave it at that. The computer age has its glitches. I also noted that expatua.com went down last week due to a hacker getting into their site. The site is now up and running, but they had some down time. That reminds me, I had better archive my site now.
Posted: October 16th, 2006 under Website Info, General.
Comments: none
No. 1 Spammer is from Ukraine
I was looking at The Spamhaus Project website and noticed that the number one spammer is from Ukraine. He goes by the name Alex Blood, Alexander Mosh, Alex Polyakov, and AlekseyB. You can read about on the ROKSO page of Spamhaus. ROKSO stands for Register of Known Spam Operations.
Actually, Ukraine isn’t one of the worst offending countries in terms of spam (the US is first, China is second, and Russia takes the bronze). This report lists Ukraine as 49th overall and contributing only .12% to overall spam.
The bad part is that in many countries ISPs don’t have sophisticated software to prevent spam, so according to CNET you are more likely to get spam if you are in a developing country and use an ISP without good spam filtration. The Spamhuntress notes that ICIC (another Ukrainian spammer) uses Bellsouth (in US) and Wanadoo (in France) to target Polish addresses. There was subsequently a campaign in Poland to shut the spammer down. But this doesn’t mean you have to be a cash-strapped ISP to not get spammed. The Spamhaus Project notes SBC, Yahoo, and Verizonbusiness in the top five of worst service networks for spam, and they certainly have the cash.
Another quote from the CentreSource Blog brings the example back to Ukraine. The article states: “One of our clients in the [sic] Ukraine has a full office of workers on a 256Kbps connection. During peak hours, they strain this connection with email / IM / browsing / and server connections. Tack on thousands of spam messages per day (and no protection)… and now you’ve got some serious problems with bandwidth loss.”
If you happen to have the resources for broadband, maybe you can deal with spam, but some companies don’t have adequate resources.
Anyhow, I will leave it at that. The computer age has its glitches. I also noted that expatua.com went down last week due to a hacker getting into their site. The site is now up and running, but they had some down time. That reminds me, I had better archive my site now.
Posted: October 16th, 2006 under Website Info, General.
Comments: none