[RTC List] spam from Commercial Radio & Electronics
William Van Hefner
vantek at humboldtonline.com
Thu Jul 30 15:02:27 PDT 2009
Looking at the headers, I'm surprised that anyone got the mailing at all.
Based upon the way Rick's mail server is set up, my own mail server would
have rejected the message outright at the envelope, just based upon its
reverse DNS and IP address. Having an outbound mail server on an AT&T ADSL
line is a great way to get permanently blacklisted. The headers show that
Spamassassin/Barracuda classified the message as spam, so I'm not sure how
it even got through to Mike.
I did a quick scan and it looks like Power Page's mail server is already
on the SORBS blacklist from an earlier complaint. According to SORBS,
Power Page's server has/had some kind of e-mail spamming trojan program on
it. The server's IP address also has a "SenderBase reputation score" of
"POOR".
Rick might want to look into a better alternative for mail server hosting.
I'm sure that a lot of his mail is getting blocked as it is now.
--
William Van Hefner
President - Vantek Communications, Inc.
http://www.humboldtonline.com
e-mail: editor at humboldtonline.com
On Thu, July 30, 2009 12:57 pm, Rick Blanchard wrote:
> Group, I have sent Mr. Ireton a message off group, and will discuss this
> with him personally. As you all know, because you never received the
> newsletter Mike is speaking of, and there may only be a handful of my
> business clients and associates who actually received this newsletter, I
> have never sent irresponsible emails to you or anyone else for that
> matter. Sorry for the Drama.
>
> Rick Blanchard
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike
> To: Rick Blanchard
> Cc: William Van Hefner ; list at redwoodtech.org
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [RTC List] spam from Commercial Radio & Electronics
>
>
> Mr, Blanchard,
>
> You transmitted your advertising to
> 'mike-redwoodtech at tiedyenetworks.com', which is a specially crafted
> email address I use _only_ for posting to the rtc list, and tracking
> replies and spam to the source. This positively confirms that you
> learned of my address in connection to the rtc list and from no other
> source, case closed.
>
> I have used this technique for many, many years now as a way of tracking
> where any particualr piece of email may have learned of my contact
> information, and have hundreds of these crafted addresses in use today.
> And occasionally when one crafted address being to attract too much
> junk, I simply retire it and no longer receive any mail on it at all.
> Although this is an unusual feature unavailable to casual or moderate
> email users, it's a critial component of my overall communications
> capability and one I use to high effectiveness.
>
> I have never transacted business with you and your claim otherwise gives
> me great pause. I can accept that someone else populated your mailing
> list for you, but to come right out and claim that we transacted
> business is, well, dissapointing in the extreme. For public consumption,
> I now present the proof in the form of message headers that show you
> transmitting this to 'mike-redwoodtech at tiedyenetworks.com'.
>
> Return-Path: <rick at cre-powerpage.com>
> Delivered-To: mike-redwoodtech at tiedyenetworks.com
> Received: (qmail 24897 invoked by uid 1010); 30 Jul 2009 09:55:35 -0700
> Received: from 65.127.33.9 by postoffice-primary.willitsonline.com
> (envelope-from <rick at cre-powerpage.com>, uid 1008) with
> qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms
> (clamdscan: 0.88/705. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms.
> Clear:RC:0(65.127.33.9):SA:1(5.4/5.0):.
> Processed in 4.154024 secs); 30 Jul 2009 16:55:35 -0000
> X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.4 required=5.0
> X-Spam-Level: +++++
> X-Antivirus-WILLITSONLINE.COM-Mail-From: rick at cre-powerpage.com via
> postoffice-primary.willitsonline.com
> X-Antivirus-WILLITSONLINE.COM: 1.25-st-qms
> (Clear:RC:0(65.127.33.9):SA:1(5.4/5.0):. Processed in 4.154024 secs
> Process 24881)
> Received: from barracuda.willitsonline.com (65.127.33.9)
> by postoffice.willitsonline.com with SMTP; 30 Jul 2009 09:55:31 -0700
> X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1248972927-4447000e0000-LINaSc
> X-Barracuda-URL: http://65.127.33.9:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi
> Received: from rblanchard-PC (localhost [127.0.0.1])
> by barracuda.willitsonline.com (Spam & Virus Firewall) with ESMTP id
> C487A2D0E24
> for <mike-redwoodtech at tiedyenetworks.com>; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:55:27
> -0700 (PDT)
> Received: from rblanchard-PC (adsl-63-198-43-236.powerpageonline.net
> [63.198.43.236]) by barracuda.willitsonline.com with ESMTP id
> SMtewSGkpv7CdQ7R for <mike-redwoodtech at tiedyenetworks.com>; Thu, 30 Jul
> 2009 09:55:27 -0700 (PDT)
> X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: rick at cre-powerpage.com
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="------_=_NextPart_001_52FE852B.04677148"
> Message-ID: <03df2366084d734eb9829e95d796fde7 at rblanchard-pc>
> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:52:42 -0700
> From: "Commercial Radio & Electronics" <rick at cre-powerpage.com>
> Reply-To: "" <rick at cre-powerpage.com>
> X-ASG-Orig-Subj: August Newsletter
> Subject: :SPAM: August Newsletter
> To: " " <mike-redwoodtech at tiedyenetworks.com>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Rick Blanchard wrote:
> > Mike and the rest of RTC, This is Rick Blanchard from Commercial Radio
> > & Electronics. I did not send my company newsletter to the group and
> > Mike, I sent it to our customers, NOT the RTC List. My records have
> > you as a former customer and I sent out our newsletter to my
> > customers. I have removed you from the list Mike, and I am sorry you
> > had to send this to some fraud list. I have Mikes email form previous
> > business related work. We are a company which some people only
> > recognize under CRE, Comradio, Commercial Radio, Power Page. I do not
> > purchase email account info nor do I sale them, I am a small business
> > owner who has been receiving requests from my customers and decided to
> > comply, Sorry for your inconvenience. I am also an RTC member and
> > would not use the list as a resource for sending a newsletter about my
> > business.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Rick Blanchard
> >
> > www.cre-powerpage.com <http://www.cre-powerpage.com>
> > Comradio, Inc.
> > 2416 Broadway, Eureka, Ca. 95501
> > Tel. (800)92-RADIO (800-927-2346)
> > Alt.Tel. (707)445-9661
> > Fax. (707)445-9518
> > FCC License: PG00005123
> > CA Contractors License: 505485
> > California Certified Small Business: 3290
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > *From:* William Van Hefner <mailto:vantek at humboldtonline.com>
> > *To:* list at redwoodtech.org <mailto:list at redwoodtech.org>
> > *Sent:* Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:44 AM
> > *Subject:* Re: [RTC List] spam from Commercial Radio & Electronics
> >
> > I've been on the list for quite awhile, and I didn't receive
> > anything from
> > them.
> >
> > Just out of curiousity, who is YOUR upstream provider? If it's
> AT&T,
> > Suddenlink, etc., I wouldn't put it beyond them to have sold your
> > address.
> > Same goes for your wireless provider. If you have AT&T residential
> > DSL,
> > look very carefully at your agreement. You pretty much give up all
> > rights
> > of any type of phone or data privacy when you sign-up with them.
> > That can
> > do whatever they want to with the data they collect about you,
> > especially
> > if you are crazy enough to install their spyware... er, I mean,
> > installation software. :-)
> >
> > --
> > William Van Hefner
> > President - Vantek Communications, Inc.
> > http://www.humboldtonline.com
> > e-mail: editor at humboldtonline.com
> <mailto:editor at humboldtonline.com>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, July 30, 2009 11:23 am, Mike wrote:
> > > Hey list,
> > >
> > > I've just received a commercial advertisement from "Commercial
> > Radio &
> > > Electronics" of Eureka, Ca. I have proof that what they did was
> > to troll
> > > the RTC list and assemble a list of email addresses of people
> > who posted
> > > here. Simply seeing my email address in public, or buying a list
> of
> > > 'targeted email addresses' from a spam gang, does not grant you
> > > permission to send me advertisements, and it is well established
> law
> > > that unsolicited commercial email = spam and is a violation of
> > most, if
> > > not all, ISP terms of service. I am following up now with their
> > upstream
> > > isp and will advocate to have them disconnected for this
> > violation of
> > > the att terms of service, and I encourage others who also
> > received this
> > > junkmail to do likewise. Forward your spam from commercial radio
> and
> > > electronics to abuse at sbcglobal.net <mailto:abuse at sbcglobal.net>.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
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