Organization: Marcab Inc.
Subject: Analyzing three days of spammers' incoming mail
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 05:30:52 +0200
Declan,
On July 3 2003, cyberangels.nl was re-registered by Spamvrij.nl, a Dutch foundation fighting spam. Previously, the domain was owned by the company Cyberangels, who have been majorly involved in spamming. They felt forced to drop it when the ground under their feet got too hot. (The history of that affair is listed on our main page, www.cyberangels.nl.)
Since MX-records for cyberangels.nl now point to spamvrij.nl too, we get all their mail: bounces, spam complaints and what have you. Have a peek: what kind of mail does a major spammer receive in the course of three days? By now, we have a very precise answer: 6305 mails. Here is the breakdown of those mails.
1. Introduction: 6305 mails in (basically) three days
2. We received 5880 bounces and forwards
3. We received 12 spams for @cyberangels
4. We received 40 attempts to annoy Cyberangels
5. We received 371 complaints about Cyberangels
6. We received 2 business mails
The full analysis is available at
http://www.cyberangels.nl/evidence/mailfile.html
Karin Spaink
Spamvrij.nl board member