uk666 5,298 Report post Posted February 13, 2017 World’s Worst Spammers A hard-core group of around 100 known persistent spam gangs whose names, aliases and operations are documented in Spamhaus’ Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database generates up to 80% of spam targeted at internet users around the world. This top 10 chart of ROKSO-listed spammers is based on Spamhaus views of the highest threat, least repentant, most persistent, and generally the worst of the career spammers causing the most damage on the internet currently. The 10 Worst Spammers As of 13 February 2017 the world's worst spammers and spam gangs are: Canadian Pharmacy – Ukraine A long time running pharmacy spam operation. They send tens of millions of spams per day using botnet techniques. Probably based in Eastern Europe, Ukraine/Russia. Host spammed web sites on botnets and on bulletproof Chinese web hosting. Dante Jimenez / Aiming Invest - United States Spamwarez, lists, "bulletproof" hosting in the finest South Florida tradition. Working with worst cybercriminal botnet spammers. Now mostly involved in massive botnet spamming with hosting on hacked servers and Eastern European hosters. Yair Shalev / Kobeni Solutions - United States High volume snowshoe spammer from Florida, (former?) partner-in-spam of ROKSO spammer Darrin Wohl. Son-in-law of ROKSO-listed spammer Dan Abramovich. Sued for fraud by the US FTC in 2014. Michael Lindsay - United States Lindsay's iMedia Networks is a full-fledged spam-hosting operation serving bulletproof hosting at high premiums to well-known ROKSO-listed spammers. His customers spam via botnet zombies with spam payloads hosted offshore, tunnelled back to his servers. He and the gang have been hijacking (stealing) IP address space from companies for years to spam from. Illegal in the USA. Michael Boehm and Associates - United States Snowshoe spam organization that uses large numbers of inexpensive, automated VPS hosting IPs and domains in whatever TLD is currently cheapest to send high volumes of spam to extremely dirty, scraped lists. Operates under many business and individual names. Peter Severa / Peter Levashov - Russian Federation A spammer who writes and sells virus-spamming spamware and botnet access. Is probably involved in the writing and releasing of viruses & trojans. One of the longest operating criminal spam-lords on the internet. Works with many other Easter Euro and US based botnet spammers. Was a partner of American spammer Alan Ralsky. Yambo Financials - Ukraine Huge spamhaus tied into distribution and billing for child, animal, and incest-porn, pirated software, and pharmaceuticals. Run their own merchant services (credit-card "collection" sites) set up as a fake "bank." Michael Persaud - United States Long time snowshoe type spammer, raided by FBI then indicted in 2017 on federal wire fraud charges tied to his spamming operations. Alvin Slocombe / Cyber World Internet Services - United States Bulletproof spam host operating Cyber World Internet Services / e-Insites, and currently spamming using a variety of aliases such as Brand 4 Marketing, Ad Media Plus, Site Traffic Network, RCM Delivery, and eBox. Jagger Babuin / BHSI - Canada Romanian spammer now living in Vancouver BC. Also known as the "Dr Oz" spammer. The 10 Worst Spam Countries As of 13 February 2017 the world's worst Spam Haven countries for enabling spamming are: United States Number of Current Live Spam Issues: 3005 China Number of Current Live Spam Issues: 2047 Russian Federation Number of Current Live Spam Issues: 1103 Hong Kong Number of Current Live Spam Issues: 755 Ukraine Number of Current Live Spam Issues: 740 Japan Number of Current Live Spam Issues: 572 United Kingdom Number of Current Live Spam Issues: 424 Germany Number of Current Live Spam Issues: 409 Brazil Number of Current Live Spam Issues: 387 Turkey Number of Current Live Spam Issues: 386 About Spamhaus The Spamhaus Project is an international nonprofit organization that tracks spam and related cyber threats such as phishing, malware and botnets, provides realtime actionable and highly accurate threat intelligence to the Internet's major networks, corporations and security vendors, and works with law enforcement agencies to identify and pursue spam and malware sources worldwide. Founded in 1998, Spamhaus is based in Geneva, Switzerland and London, UK and is run by a dedicated staff of 38 investigators, forensics specialists and network engineers located in 10 nations. The Spamhaus Project is responsible for compiling several widely used anti-spam lists. Many internet service providers and email servers use the lists to reduce the amount of spam that reaches their users. In 2006, the Spamhaus services protected 650 million email users, including the European Parliament, US Army, the White House and Microsoft, from billions of spam emails a day. Spamhaus is also notorious for blacklisting IPs, Domains without much consultation or notices. A good example is when they blacklisted Google Docs IPs. They also blacklisted CyberBunker which is quite renowned for providing BulletProof Hosting and inadvertently blacklisted many legit clients causing the first of large scale DDoS attack in recent memory. [Wiki] 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tech 425 3,942 Report post Posted February 13, 2017 Well no spam coming from us on Pluto I have my email set to block all spam and if one gets though it won't come again I have spammers call my cell, but I don't answer and if no message is left then they are blocked 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
