Bits and Pieces about This and That

Posted August 19th, 2007 by DucksInTwoRows

Those DDoS attacks kind of pisses me off. Not that spam-court is that important. In the big picture, this site is hardly worth mentioning at all. You have probably never seen a site with so few hits, except when it's DDoS time.
Search engines and robots like spam-court.com though. That could explain why the spammers at bulkerforum.biz dislike the site. So much that they have initiated 4 attacks on the site (or is it 5, I have lost count).
The pure fact that this is criminal activity pisses me off.

I would like to see some of the members of bulkerforum go down. Hard.
Especially the moderators. Swank, Phantom and Crypto.

Rumors are going around that Swank is a bit more active than we at spam-court.com thought a few months ago.
He is an american and it should be possible to take him down. The authorities are a bit more interested in guys like him now than only a few years back. His identity is known. The rest should be relatively easy.

Phantom is from Australia. He is slippery and there are different opinions about who he is. His own bragging is what probably has led to his identification. By us. But we quite can't believe it ourselves, it seems a bit unlikely. Little pieces and fractions of info from here and there, coupled together gives a preliminary picture of a small corner of the puzzle. Others disagree and have their own opinion.
Time will show. He is being watched and we think that in the long run the only way to avoid identification is going out of business. But he is not "ezy" to find and he "magically" disappears when you think you got him. And we don't know how concerned the authorities in Australia are regarding this kind of criminal activity.

Crypto, the Moldovian expert on copyright and hacking will probably live peacefully. I don't think the authorities there will go after him.

Bulkerforum.biz also has an admin. In the beginning we thought it could be Crypto, but their writing styles are different.
Their mistreatment of the english language is different too. We have an idea about who he is. Or more correctly, in what branch of the spamming business he operates in. He is probably a Russian, living in Russia. Usually that means he can do what he wants.

A few of the other members of the forum are a bit interesting too. But the forum has turned into a comedy lately. Scamming each other, paranoia is spreading, there is talk about starting another forum etc. Social engineering is out of the question, they are seeing ghosts in broad daylight. Our sources dried out too.

We never thought the spammers would resort to DDoS-ing spam-court.com. That was very naive and stupid. The site is hosted in a shared environment, which is not a good idea when you are the victim of an attack. A DDoS can affect other users on Dreamhosts servers. That is our main concern. Not spam-court going down, we can live with that. Dreamhost support has been fantastic during the attacks and we are wondering if there is any host like that out there at all. But in the long run we don't think it can be hosted on a shared server. And a dedicated server is out of the question. So we are going somewhere in the middle that means that spam-court may go down, but it will not effect the other users. Hopefully.

New content is possible from the middle of September.
If the site is still up.
If not, some of the old content and new stuff will be up at http://ducksintworows.blogspot.com/ , http://veruccawatcher.blogspot.com/ and a couple of other places.

From April 21

Spring time
Posted April 21st, 2007 by veruccawatcher

Late spring/early summer in some parts of the world and the birds are singing.
However, the ones singing to us can't carry a tune.
Or maybe we are missing the sheet or maybe we don't have an ear for music.

One was singing about Boris Mizhen, we found the sheet for that one, but it was a bit old.
Still harmonic though.

A couple of melodies about Swank, but we could not check that against the sheet.
Sounded awfully out of tune. Maybe a little one only trying to socialize.

So we are humming along for ourselves and checking the sheets we actually have.
Mostly concentrating on bulkerforum, though it feels like wasting time.

But the forums sing, google and other sources sing nicely along with it.
And so does our archives.

Oldtimers like Michael Lindsay, Charles Fielding Childs, Max Sutter, James Botkin, Glen MCCausland and Tony Banks are definitely on board, all in ROKSO.
A few others have been fully identified, like mcproxy, Nick Danger (Marion) and iannewla (um, well ... Ian).
And some others pretty close (europe, corleonem, canadaguy99, adultguy1, general).

US and European servers seem to be popular. Lindsay is taking care of the US part, but we are wondering a bit about the Europeans.
There are some Germans on board, we are pretty close to identifying one or two of them too. Only missing one or two sheets.

We are convinced there are other guys participating on the forum that can be found in ROKSO, directly or indirectly. Time will tell.
Swank's identity is known, but Phantom is a slippery guy. We would like some info there. Some birds were humming something about Australia, or was it New Zealand? The last moderator is Crypto, already found. So that leaves the Admin, slippery guy that too.

And Crypto has made a new program, a Yahoo and Hotmail email verifier. Selling it via cryptosoft.biz apparently.
We hope he has gotten some help regarding copyrights on the program. He is not too bright there.
And only selling it to a few spammers? He need some financial advice too. Nice feedback on the program on bulkerforum.
So why only sell it to a few? We don't know the price, couple of thousands maybe? That should leave something left after the expenses for the lawyers work with copyrighting it.

Anyway, back to the forums, the birds and the sheets.
We could need a few more sheets though.
Time is running out, we don't think bulkerforum will stay up more than a few months longer, probably three to four months and it is gone.

With respect,
scribbler

OhDearTisTheFantom

The publication of the name, address, phone number and pictures of one of the leading players in the bulker business was set in type and all ready to go, but there was an urgent request from a higher authority to stay the execution. Wapol wants first dibs.