drinkypoo's Journal: Who is icptrack?

I got the following spam: (note: no clicky linky) "YourMom, I wanted to again invite you to try out a great new money maker for your website, AuctionAds.com AuctionAds is owned in part by TLA and the results have been outstanding. The great part about AA is that it can be run along with other ad systems like Adsense so there is no reason not to run it on your site and see how it performs.".

This is amusing to me because of the name, "YourMom", which I have occasionally used as my name on websites. Obviously someone who shouldn't be is spamming me.

I've saved the entire original message in case it's relevant.

Whois

[benhocking]

Registrant:
Broadwick Corporation
Broadwick Corporation Broadwick Corporation
2635 Meridian Parkway Suite #100
Durham, NC 27713
US
Email: [e-mail]

Registrar Name....: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com

Domain Name: icptrack.com

Created on..............: Fri, Jun 30, 2006
Expires on..............: Tue, Jan 08, 2008
Record last updated on..: Wed, Dec 13, 2006

Administrative Contact:
Broadwick Corporation
Broadwick Corporation Broadwick Corporation
2635

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[Servo]

That address looked vaguely familiar, then it hit me. That's in the same office park as my company's last offices before they moved a few years back. We shared a floor with Redhat in that building!

tracking via email address...

[rthille]

This is why I love running my own domain. I give out different emails to most everyone, so when united airlines let my address get into the wild (I assume accidentally), I just sent that email into my spam trainer and went to united.com and changed my address to a new one.

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[drinkypoo]

Yeah, I have my own domain, but I'm horribly lazy. One day I will install something to make it easier to manage one-off addresses and then start doing the same.

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[BobPaul]

Be sure to be smart about it, like doing [e-mail] instead of just [e-mail]

The latter is how I'd been doing things up until recently and now someone is sending spam with random addresses from my domain in the From line. I get hundreds of bounces, verify this e-mail responses, etc every day. If only I had done the former from the get go I could filter by "DP-" in the To line.

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[grub]

That's what I do. I generated a quick 1000 (x000 through x999 where x is the prefix I used) addresses and use them everywhere. I usually comment in the aliases file where I used that particular address so I can bitch or comment out the alias if spam comes. With good blacklists used by postfix and spamd on OpenBSD at the gateway I get very very little spam, even with my addresses unobfuscated everywhere.

That's why I use Sneakemail

[plover]

I generate and use a different email address for every web site I sign up on. If spam starts coming in on one of those addresses, I know who was responsible for leaking it. Even better, I can shut it off without penalty.

Is this you?

[grub]

Is this you as well? http://slashdot.org/~YourMom [slashdot.org]

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[drinkypoo]

I did once have a five-digit UID but I forgot both name and password :D Pretty sure it wasn't that one though.

TLA?

[Artifex]

Like TLA Video or something? Clue as to who let the name out.