Spam: N ENZO & CO

I’m really annoyed as I’ve now had over 600(!) spams from the same idiot. Well, I say ‘had’, they’ve got as far as my mail filters but have then been automatically tagged as spam: but it’s still annoying they got that far. I tried to change my server settings so that they couldn’t even that that far (IP blocking etc), but unfortunately they relayed them through my secondary MX (ie my ‘backup mailserver’) which is now passing them to their proper destination (ie my primary mailserver). Obviously, I can’t block that IP as then all mail that does end up on by secondary MX won’t reach me – so grr. (Ok, a few were directed at my primary MX, but by looks of things it’s mainly my secondary one that’s had the brunt of the spam)

I have installed SpamAssassin on the server, but I’ve still got to correctly configure Qmail to use it (currently I’m relying on MailWasher to do all my spam filtering – mainly because I’ve got a domain which cannot, for historical reasons, that cannot support server-side filtering).

The Spam email takes the form of:
Return-Path [random letters]believablehcd@hotmail.com
From: UK HACKER CD [same random letters]believablehcd@hotmail.com
To: [random numbers+somes a few random letters]@mydomain.tld
Subject: HACKER CD - NOW �3.99 [although I've had a few others

However, despite them ‘fiddling’ the headers of the mail, HotMail has nothing to do with this mail. Unfortunately, MailWasher bounces back a ‘User unknown’ message to the Hotmail address (since it’s operating as a client of a POP3 server it can’t do ‘mail rejects’ just ‘mail bounces’).

I intercepted a couple of the mails before they got bounced+deleted and looked up the details. They seem to be from various IPs (sample list arranged in numerical order with the results of Open Relay testing from ‘ORDB):

• 61.133.8.14
• 61.194.11.2
• 80.61.65.108
• 195.174.133.192 – not open relay according to ORDB, but is according to third party databases
• 200.24.218.58
• 200.67.151.116
• 217.59.109.245
• 218.22.70.54
• 218.76.80.7 – not open relay according to ORDB, but is according to third party databases

In no instance have I (yet) found a common IP address, but I’ve got a collection of around 2 dozen of the spams to look through when I feel like it.

The body of the email is in HTML format (created by Microsoft FrontPage 4.0) but doesn’t include any “web-bugs” which would help me track a ‘single source’. It reads as thusly (in plain text): [Skip]

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Payment….

THE “UK HACKER CD” IS AVAILABLE FOR JUST �3.99 +�2 P&P

TOTAL=�5.99 [SAVE �9!]

Resell rights included! Copy/Sell/Modify this CD at your leisure!

PLEASE SEND CHEQUE OR POSTAL ORDER FOR �5.99 TO:

“N ENZO & CO”,
DEPT 207,
9 ST JOHNS ST,
COLCHESTER,
ESSEX CO2 7NN

NOTICE: THIS CD IS FOR IMPORTANT INFORMATION/KNOWLEDGE PURPOSE ONLY, WE ARE NOT RESPONSABLE FOR ANYTHING YOU MIGHT DO WITH ANY INFORMATION OR SOFTWARE ON THIS CD.

All of the information is available FREE on the internet by the way (use Google or the ODP). Do you really think they could offer all that “worthwhile” information for such a low-cost if you couldn’t already get it free?

The address they ask you to send your cheque to actually belongs to:

MAILBOXES ETC
9 ST. JOHNS STREET
COLCHESTER
CO2 7NN
Telephone: 01206 368 881
Fax: 01206 368 882
Website: http://www.mbe.uk.com/048/index.htm

So, presumably they’ve rented out a mailbox there and are either going to pick up their mail or having it forwarded on for an extra charge. I’ve just sent them the following message via their website feedback form:

I was wondering what your policy was for someone using illegal (under UK law) advertising goods to be ordered from one of your mailboxes.

Surely you have terms+conditions in place to prevent someone using your service for illegal purposes?

If you could get back to me via email as soon as possible, I would be grateful as it would help my investigations a lot.

Many thanks.

Ok, even after reading this page on The European Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email I’m not 100% sure if “spam” technically is outlawed (even though they say on their front page ‘EU Parliament “Opts In”: Commercial Email in European Economic Area will not be allowed without recipients’ prior consent’), but under the UK’s Computer Misuse Act, Section 3 subsection 2 they did “impair the operation of any computer;” (ie my server and home machine). So, therefore, once I’ve got their name and address (normally I don’t bother, but 600+ spams is a different matter), I may see if I can get the prosecuted which may result in:

A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable�
(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to both; and
(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine or to both.

We’ll see….