Saturday, 11 April 2009

Russian botnets

Does no-one in Russia have control over these Russian morons who think it's OK to use other people's computers to send their spam? I have tracked a couple of culprits:-

email-marketing.ru - linked to the site kassperskylabs.cn which is a malware dropper site, telephone number +7 (495) 772 3877. These slimeballs advertise their services to Moscow businesses and spin them the yarn that spamming is legal in Russia - what they don't tell their clients is that they use botnets as their delivery mechanism, which is illegal whichever country you live in, slimeballs.

Here's another:-
Электронные рассылки высокого качества

Мы производим рассылку в кратчайшие сроки

Наши письма всегда доходят до адресатов.

Наши база обновляются и проверяются ежемесячно.

При оплате двух рассылок – третья бесплатно.

При оплате трех рассылок – две бесплатно.

Тел. (495)226-10-50

Tuesday, 6 November 2007

TheBudShop=TheBadShop.net

"That Big Buddha Bud is the bomb. Intense and very potent, yet it puts my
mind at ease. Wow you guys weren't kidding about not driving after smoking
this!"
One of our customers said this, what are you gonna say when you smoke our
legal bud??

Dear Mr Budshop owner,
Why on earth would anyone want to buy what looks like something from down the back of the sofa from a spammer who uses a fast-flux botnet to rotate his webservers, and has the intellect of an 11-year old, the criminality of the mafia and the honesty of Billy Liar? They're right about not driving after smoking their "products" - if you fall for this one I wouldn't trust you with a postage stamp, you might as well stick a sign to your head saying "I'm a silly goose and deserve to be parted from my money because I happily give money to dim criminals".

Here's a couple for you Mr criminal diwit, looks like you need some "correctional facility haze" or some "Bubba delight".

Monday, 29 October 2007

Geotrust - like, TOTALLY untrustworthy

Here's another bunch of criminals who are proud to say that they have a Geotrust certificate, of course Geotrust won't be prepared to tell us who they are, that would be against company policy, wouldn't it?

DO NOT TRUST A GEOTRUST LOGO, THEY HAND OUT THEIR CERTS TO CRIMINALS!!

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/277/RipOff0277793.htm

Wednesday, 24 October 2007

Geotrust Europe, keeping criminal identities secret

Now here's a funny one - the renowned website certification authority, Geotrust, get paid to issue SSL certificates that prove that a company is reputable and has a traceable identity, and that their online business is worthy and honourable. This is what SSL certificates are for. Notice the use of the word trust in Geotrust, like, hey, we're trustworthy!

But what's this?..

They are so impressed with the penis-enlargement pills spammers currently plaguing our inboxes that they have given them an SSL certificate, for their payment processor site mysecurepay.net. Yet when I asked who the owners of the certificate were - they couldn't possibly tell me, as it was against company policy to disclose this kind of information. So by extension, their company policy is to harbour criminals and shelter them from investigation. Nice one, Geotrust! I wonder which other criminal gangs they are sheltering? It wouldn't surprise me if a certain Sicilian 'family' organisation had purchased certificates from Geotrust, who feel duty-bound to keep the identity of criminals secret. Excellent company policy, and one that SOCA would commend, I'm sure.

If you want to know more about this gang, i's all here:-

http://spamtrackers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Herbal_King

Now let's see, which of these phoney addresses are mysecurepay.net based at? Could it be this one, which is what some of the over 3000 domains registered by these criminals are registered as? (With joker.com, if you're asking).

owner: Gino Roberts
organization: Etty Productions Limited
email: admin@ettyproductionslimited.com
address: Rua Pedroso Alvarenga, 332
city: Sao Paulo
state: --
postal-code: 04531-001
country: BR
phone: +55.1183145121

or is it this one, another favourite of these criminals?

owner: Sammy Lee
organization: Liquid Ventures Inc
email: admin@liquidventuresinc.com
address: 44/E ENTERPRISE SQUARE
city: KOWLOON
state: --
postal-code: 0000
country: HK
phone: +852.94528422

or is it the one that the domain mysecurepay.net is registered as, you know, the one with the non-working phone number and obviously spurious address?

domain: mysecurepay.net
owner: Eduardo Macias
organization: TOLMEN STAR ENTERPRISES LTD
email: admin@querendamx.com
address: Querenda No. 353, Fracc. Bosque Camelinas
city: Michoacan
postal-code: 58290
country: MX
phone: +52.443655187
fax: +52.443655187


One thing's for sure, Geotrust aren't going to tell us!

Now, how does it go, again?

Oh yes,under the UK Proceeds of Crime act (2002) Section 328 "A person commits an offence if he enters into or becomes concerned in an arrangement which he knows or suspects facilitates (by whatever means) the acquisition, retention, use or control of criminal property by or on behalf of another person"

I would say issuing an SSL certificate and withholding the identity of the owners facilitates crime, does it not?

Tuesday, 18 September 2007

Russian criminal scum using copyright law, eh?

The Difference Between US and European Merchant Accounts

You are criminals!!


(this is from the website of gspay.com, payment processor for online pharmacies and other dubious activities, and run by BAZILEVICH, STANISLAV and KUDINOV, ALEXEY, but maybe a certain fugitive from justice in Massachusetts is the King Stink, you know, the one who owes $37M but ran away to Moscow)


The U.S.A. has long been the center for e-Commerce merchant internet credit card processing. American banks were the first ones to issue credit cards and credit card processing services for big stores and supermarkets. And when online shopping became popular US credit card processing banks began to provide e-Commerce merchant services for all major online resources selling either goods or services. Today a very large number of US banks offer e-Commerce merchant accounts, credit card processing gateways and other CNP (card not present) transaction services. Due to the massive amount of banks the prices became competitive, going lower and lower. The highly competitive prices resulted in very harsh terms and regulations, which not all e-Commerce merchants, especially starters, could work with; or, rather, these terms couldn’t accept such starting e-Commerce merchants. Monthly minimums, high risk of chargebacks and returns, etc. had a very negative effect on many online merchants. Moreover, most international, i.e. non-US residents, could not get a merchant account because of their residency statuses.

Most international and US e-Commerce merchants who could not get their business to generate enough revenue and incomes to get an e-Commerce merchant account with a credit card transaction gateway, had to turn to other CNP processing and transaction services, like third-party e-Commerce merchant accounts, spend a fortune on more accessible but much more expensive bank services, and use other payment methods, which are not at all convenient.

Things changed when European e-Commerce merchant accounts became available. E-Commerce merchants did not need to be citizens of the U.S.A to acquire a credit card processing gateway. More importantly, the world of e-Commerce credit card processing became open to the rest of the world, avoiding the harsh terms of US banks offering local e-Commerce merchant accounts. Today, all e-Commerce merchants have a choice of either getting a US merchant account or a European one. This question cannot be tackled from only one side; an independent view is vital when approaching the question.

The difference between US and European merchant accounts:

Availability: US e-Commerce merchant accounts are very difficult to sign up for. There are freely available credit card processing solutions available online for US and non-US e-Commerce merchants, but these services are very expensive. US banks tend to do a lot of checking up and research before providing merchants with a gateway. The merchant’s business should maintain a certain volume of sales and a minimum number of transactions per month. Plus, most US banks do not provide credit card processing gateways and services to international online merchants. European e-Commerce merchant accounts have much more flexible terms and regulations and are ready to work with most e-Commerce merchants from any country in the world. It does not mean that European providing banks provide gateways and merchant account to any and all merchants; some limitation and checking up is always done for security and other reasons. Also, terminated merchants (TMF e-Commerce merchants) in the US can easily get an EU account without worrying about his/her credit card processing history in the US.

Prices: Sometimes the only thing that and e-Commerce merchant looks at are the costs involved: gateway setup fees, discount rates, additional charges, etc. The variation in prices between US eCommerce merchant accounts and European accounts is perceivable. US merchant accounts are usually cheaper than European accounts because US accounts are in constant competition, as said above, among all the banks. If a few banks offer their credit card processing services at lower rates than the rest, the rest will, most probably, lower the prices to stay in competition. European banks have slightly higher prices as there is no ‘US-style’ competition, EU banks keep their cool and service the whole world, while US banks, usually, cover the U.S.A. only. The ‘US banks are cheaper than EU banks’ phrase is not a rule, there are many EU banks which render services at lower prices than an average US bank’s ones.

Quality: In terms of quality there is no difference, as there are as many great US credit card service providing banks as European banks. Scams can pop up from anywhere in the world, US or Europe. Quality is of no lack on both sides as long as the merchant account banks, or providers, are decent, responsible and respected. All the quality factors, i.e. time of approval, safety, security and stability vary from one European bank (or provider) to another, as much as from one US bank (or provider) to another. Generally speaking, any credit card processing service uses identical gateway security technologies (including additional ones from Visa or MasterCard), all are as fast as any e-mail being sent from one part of the world to another. Time of approval depends on the business to be serviced and the merchant account provider. Nonetheless, the time of approval at US providers is similar to that of European providers.


The advantages of European banks are evident: internationally available and easily acquirable. Many US e-Commerce merchants use European services because it is really rather hard to get a local (US) credit card processing service. European merchant accounts can also be called international e-Commerce merchant accounts, because any country can apply for these. Some US based providers, nevertheless, provide international merchant accounts for merchants located in any part of the world, but these are few and, usually, are expensive. Your choice between European providers and US providers must be based on the type of business you are running, the terms you can work with and the expenses you are ready to cover.

Tip: Another great use for European providers is high-risk business processing. European providers tend to have high-risk rates, lower than US banks, and European bank chargeback regulations are not as tough as US regulations, where an e-Commerce merchant can easily get ‘blackbooked’ (TMF status, standing for ‘terminated merchant file’).

http://www.gspay.com/images/cs.gif

Thursday, 30 August 2007

free p0rn, just pay and then cancel

WTF??? Jeez, these spammers just have to be the lowest life form on the planet. I don't quite know what the deal is, but it looks increasingly like the poor little googy-woogy spammers are being hurt by the anti-spam tactics which are cutting their revenue and now they are having a big sulk, throwing their toys out of the pram and spitting the dummy. Aaah, are the nasty anti-spammers making the poor ickle-lickle spammers cry then? Ohhh, poor lickle persecuted spammers, diddums!

First a DDoS on a number of anti-spam sites, and now diversifying from pills into stupid porn spam. Get this, spammers - you are the scum of the earth and you will eventually be flushed down the toilet where you belong.

As for the rationale behind this type of spam - beats me, but the words 'Boulder' and 'Pledge' come racing to mind. Any lowlife scum who hijacks computers, even if they're offering free girls, alcohol and a place in the sun for life, is still a lowlife scum. You know what I'm saying, mcproxy, dollar, swank, and the rest of the girlies on bulker? Why not DDoS google, ya lumps of faecal matter? "Errr, what does that mean?"
Well listen up, girlies, something you considered a safe haven for a long time is now not a safe haven, and within a few days no doubt we will see the girlies throw an even bigger tantrum as their websites turn into the dust that resides in their 'permafried' crania. "Errr, what does that mean?"

By the way, what's a quastion?

Saturday, 4 August 2007

And for all the idiot, stupid, witless braindead spammers who've now started abusing google:-

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=earthmortgage123.com+Earth+Mortgage+?+Frequently+Asked+Questions+Provides+answers+to+frequently&btnI=amGKxl