[S85] RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Interesting concept..

[Markus Gufler]

 

I've collected some information about this "concept":

• On http://www.virtualmda.com/services.htm is a "how it works" for their client called "VirtualMDA"
  
• This about the revenues for VirtualMDA users:
  "2.Payment. Upon completing the registration procedure, you will be given a unique
  identification account number ("UID"). You will be paid by SENDMAILS CORPORATION $0.25 for every
  Central Processing Unit Hour ("CPU HOUR") used by the VirtualMDA software located
  on your personal or business computer(s) ..."
  In other words: You can earn $6 per computer if you keep them online 24hours/day. But as explained later you have to accumulate at least $50. => So a VirtualMDA-user has to keep online his PC for a minimum of 200 hours (=8,3 days) to earn something.
  
• "VirtualMDA" seems to be a known 'problem':
• https://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/asrg/current/msg08900.html
• http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/unwelcome-v.html (Kami: interesting list of domains!)
• http://www.river.com/ops/spam/bad-domains.txt (Another intersting sender domain list)
• http://www.google.de/search?q=cache:rgz9ryMlTRwJ:eyezone.mine.nu/zones/list_nana.txt+virtualmda&hl=de&ie=UTF-8
  
• And here an interesting dialog between Atriks (the company behind VirtualMDA) and a Spamfighter with some background information about Atriks:
  http://www.google.de/search?q=cache:TjCpLwXJ03YJ:www.nux.at/newsportal-usenet/article.php/news.admin.net-abuse.email/1599464.html+virtualmda&hl=de&ie=UTF-8

 

 

If spamming is so cheap why not spend some $ to sign up and send out a "test spam" containing a special identification string?

 

Then - if we can bring up a large community of spam fighters - we can filter for this string and so identify a large number of their "60,000 individuals" who send out spam for "Sendmails Corporation Distributed Email Delivery System"

 

If we collect all this IPs (only the first one in the headers mail chain) and merge them to one file we have a good blacklist where we can assign an accordingly wheigt. I'm sure, there are also other antispam communities and IP blacklist providers, interested in such an action.

 

Problem: Maybe a large number of this "individuals" connect from dynamic IPs but it think it should by possible to process and separate this IPs in one list containing fixed and another one with DUL IPs. Then we can give a high weight for the fixed IPs and create a "cloud" of suspect DUL IP ranges.

 

Todo:

• Contact Atriks and ask an offer for "world wide email marketing"
• Find enough Spamfighters to
  a.) bring up the $$ and
  b.) have online a wide range of Atriks spam-filters.
• Prepare a virtual "marketing action"

 

Only an idea... what do you think about?