Reported Romanian spam domain quickly taken offline by web host
On July 30, 2011, at 13:29 EST, I reported a spam email for illicit pharmaceuticals, via SpamCop. Just over one hour later, at 14:36, I received notice from the web host responsible for the spamvertised domain, that they had suspended that account. Their notice included my SpamCop report, in its entirety. The domain had a .RO extension, signifying Romanian.
The reason I got such a fast and pleasant result was because the hosting company for that .RO domain is not actually located in Romania, where the SpamCop complaint would have fallen on blind eyes, but in Great Britain. My sincere thanks and shout out goes to the admins at UK2.NET, for quickly terminating the spam domain: oil-shop.ro.
To be certain, I ran the spam domain name through WannaBrowser and sure enough, it delivered a 302 redirect to the web host's home page. The spamvertised website was indeed removed!
This is at least the 6th spam domain I have helped get terminated, in the past month or so. It does pay to report bad actors and spammers. There are hosts and registrars out there who don't turn a blind eye to abuse reports. I am finding more every time I file abuse reports.
Every spam or website abuse report counts. ISPs, hosts and registrars are listening, in growing numbers. Let your complaints be heard. Join SpamCop and submit spam emails as soon as you see them. The faster spam is reported, the sooner action like this can be taken by those who hold the ends of the plugs in their hands. It's up to us little guys, the targets of spam and scams, to report this abuse to those responsible, so that they can pull the plugs on the domains and spamming customers under their control.
FYI: I use MailWasher Pro to intercept, identify, report and delete spam email, before it can be downloaded to my desktop email client: Windows Live Mail 2011. I have an entire page describing MailWasher Pro. I even write and share my own spam filters, which are used by MailWasher.
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