HongPong.com's Russian spam battle continues: web-911.ru seems to be up to something

I noted earlier that someone was forging Russian spam emails from 'thwart.net', one of the mysterious domains that I purchased because they seemed like good ideas at the time. (some people get tattoos, I purchase little slices of the information universe).

Anyhow, since email header forging is trivially easy (faking the 'from' address), the spamming continues, and my inbox gets all the rejection notices sent to thwart.net. It would appear that besides the advertisers noted before, a Russian web hosting company is also doing it.

It would appear that a Russian web company named web-911.ru has been spamming various Russian email servers with promotional advertising, faking email addresses owned by me. This would anger me, although there's little to be done about it. However, upon viewing the site, I have decided that those who operate web-911.ru have an excellent sense of humor:

From: earth-bounces@mlist.sgu.ru
Subject: The results of your email commands
Date: March 16, 2006 2:14:14 PM CST
To: info@thwart.net

The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your
original message.

- Results:
Ignoring non-text/plain MIME parts
- Done.

From: "Web-911" <info@thwart.net>
Date: March 16, 2006 11:46:04 AM CST
To: downhill <aspirant@mlist.sgu.ru>
Subject: Юридические услуги в Москве

I know better than to break off a spat with Russian IT experts. Who knows what kinds of interests want Ethernet and web hosting in those parts. Actually, it would probably be sort of a fun industry. But if they sent me some good local vodka I would be happier.

Posted by HongPong at March 16, 2006 06:50 PM
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