Fighting Spammers
<div class="IPBDescription">Dude, never p**s these guys off....</div> I've just been sitting here reading through a thread on dslreports.com. Man, do you NOT want to get on the wrong side of these lot. They can track down your pets name from just the '.' in your IP. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Check out the thread <a href='http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7369182~root=spam~mode=flat;start=0' target='_blank'>here</a>.
Check out the thread <a href='http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7369182~root=spam~mode=flat;start=0' target='_blank'>here</a>.
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***** A program by the name of "Ip Tools" can get you all that info. I wub you Ip Tools <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
There's 15+ pages of information, they literally track down their addresses, all their friends addresses, who they've ever worked for, what they're doing now, every service they subscribe to, phone numbers. Everything. Those guys scare me. The whois is just the tip of the iceberg.
And before someone asks, yes, i stole this from /. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
EDIT: 18 Pages in total. You can't just read 1 and presume you know the whole story.
whois
google
some basic command prompt stuff, like maybe trace route etc etc to see all the servers, etc
and they check headers
ive got a way better detective story, with actual scary results, but its about adult business scammers. but if anybody wants it, pm me... unless the mods say its alright to post?
**** off the wrong person and you'll regret it.......
please note that this is about a adult business scam [essentially, pornography.] it doesnt, from memory, show anything 'naughty', but yeah keep your eye out, and to be safe just dont go hehe. but i thoroughly enjoyed the story, it was written very well and being true it was very exciting, and had an amazing ending.
okay:
here are four urls to the topic at hand. ill put them in the order you should read them... well, actually, none of them really matter, except for the last one. read it LAST. you can skim read the first 3, and the fourth one, you can just read the ones from the important names, and skim read the random "good work" "i knew they were sus" "i got jipped" replies, etc.
<a href='http://www.avslounge.com/webmaster_board/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=2859&' target='_blank'>http://www.avslounge.com/webmaster_board/i...=ST&f=3&t=2859&</a>
<a href='http://www.avslounge.com/webmaster_board/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=2905&st=0' target='_blank'>http://www.avslounge.com/webmaster_board/i...f=3&t=2905&st=0</a>
<a href='http://askmrporn.com/wmh/wwwboard/messages/38650.html' target='_blank'>http://askmrporn.com/wmh/wwwboard/messages/38650.html</a>
read this LAST.
<a href='http://www.avslounge.com/webmaster_board/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=3978&st=0' target='_blank'>http://www.avslounge.com/webmaster_board/i...f=3&t=3978&st=0</a>
hehe
and no im not ripping you off, i just like to open my mouth at the wrong times, and vomit on everybody
hehe
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I'm not gonna click your links though, i'm at work and i can't risk getting obscene images.
hehe yeah im gonna read the story when i get time ><
There's 15+ pages of information, they literally track down their addresses, all their friends addresses, who they've ever worked for, what they're doing now, every service they subscribe to, phone numbers. Everything. Those guys scare me. The whois is just the tip of the iceberg. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
The old Keyser Soze routine, eh? Terminating with extreme prejudice... <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
There's 15+ pages of information, they literally track down their addresses, all their friends addresses, who they've ever worked for, what they're doing now, every service they subscribe to, phone numbers. Everything. Those guys scare me. The whois is just the tip of the iceberg. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The old Keyser Soze routine, eh? Terminating with extreme prejudice... <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yah the Usual Supects thing was based on old Japanese mafia hitmen who would be assigned to murder everyone you know, immediate family, aunts, uncles, in-laws, ex-girlfriends (I'm not kidding), friends, family doctors/priests, etc.
This was usually done to people who entered into a groups trust and then broke it. Such extreme actions insured that that trust didn't get broken very often.
The Soze character is based around the person who carried out these masacres, people swore that they could walk into a crowded room kill the people they were supposed to and then just vanish without a trace.
I guess these guys are the internet equavilent. Spooky stuff.
I recall hearing that there might be legistlation in the work that will enable you to <b>sue</b> for $5 for every pop-up, if this bill passes pop ups can be considered dead...
Last year about 200 students here at PSU were really clogging up the network with a file sharing system they were using. Each time I had it shut down they moved it to a different host. While the individual who was running the host would lose their connection eventually they got smart and moved it to Denmark. Unfortunately for these 'intelligent' ringleaders, they still had to advertise the filesharing service.
A whois, a few trace routes then some port sniffing and 200 students lost their connections.
Before you weep for these students let me tell you a few stats: The average student on this service was sharing upwards of 50 Gigabytes of copyrighted material, 4+ Gigabytes of uploads per week. And the entire network crashed almost 15 times during one semester (normally it wont crash even once). Ping from a standard residence hall was 200 ms to PSU.EDU (and it was from within PSU!)
I guess this just illustrates that tracks are left everywhere on the internet.
I recall hearing that there might be legistlation in the work that will enable you to <b>sue</b> for $5 for every pop-up, if this bill passes pop ups can be considered dead... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
No way - that law would only stand in America. Americans seem to forget on a continual basis that an entire world exists outside of America. Any such law would only benefit Americans. Pop up people could still hound the rest of us. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo--> Thank god I use a browser which automatically defeats popups. And any that get through I can add to "Teh Li57".
I recall hearing that there might be legistlation in the work that will enable you to <b>sue</b> for $5 for every pop-up, if this bill passes pop ups can be considered dead... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
No way - that law would only stand in America. Americans seem to forget on a continual basis that an entire world exists outside of America. Any such law would only benefit Americans. Pop up people could still hound the rest of us. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo--> Thank god I use a browser which automatically defeats popups. And any that get through I can add to "Teh Li57". <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well, actually it wouldn't only benifit Americans. It'd only discourage American based websites from using pop-ups. Whats going to stop someone in another country which isn't affected by the American government?
Edit: Typo :-\