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The unfortunate thing is that presuming this happened through a relay even though that relay will surely be shut down the guy that exploited it will almost certainly never be caught.
Fortunately with Verio I've got their premier group for support and their security guys are working on it. I don't know what they'll come up with but they'll obviously know by looking at all of the evidence that none of this spam came from any of my networks despite the fact that the spam tries to implicate that my sinempire.com is both the sender and beneficiary of such 'traffic'.
What I wonder about is how thorough some of the anti-spam consortiums are when they do their research to block networks and IP addresses.
Argh.. I'm certain that the perp is either someone here on the GFY community that doesn't like me OR a foreign affiliate that I cancelled in one of my programs. It would defy logic that this is a random incident - it's clearly malicious but obviously ill-conceived since they didn't even pick a 'commerce' page to send the traffic to and the english in the spam wasn't very good.
I've cancelled a few foreign affiliates for spamming their SinTalk lines and it's possible one of them was pissed off enough to do this - I guess I'll just have to wonder.
I had this chinese or korean affiliate that I cancelled last week who was claiming he had 500k daily visitors... well, I looked at his shit-ass website and it didn't add up.... Who knows.
Anyways, it's Saturday... so I'm off to a b'day party to hopefully have some fun -
Ciao! Thanks for everyone's help and support - if I get more info I'll share it.
Brad
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