Getting spams from Opinion Surveys?

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I've been receiving spams the last day or so from an outfit called "Opinion Surveys". In the true tradition of spammers who send penis enlargement adverts to women, they send me an offer to join a sweepstake which is only open to US residents, and claimed that I'm a member of theirs, which is news to me. I've got a Unix box (a Mac!) which allows me to do a traceroute on this spammer's host. Here's the headers:

From :     OpinionSurveys.com 
Sent :  Thursday, September 9, 2004 10:08 AM
To :    indigojo@hotmail.com
Subject :   Bush vs. Kerry Survey--Enter to Win $50,000 Cash*

Received: from mail.opinionsurveys.com ([207.218.165.204]) by mc12-f3.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 03:08:23 -0700
X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jHsrjQotrmYOq28hgiv7T3b
Return-Path: sbounce.37244711.2745@mail.opinionsurveys.com
Message-ID: <7290C825C82799266@mail.opinionsurveys.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Sep 2004 10:08:23.0042 (UTC) FILETIME=[F08D2E20:01C49654]

And here's the traceroute:

indigojo_uk ~ $ host mail.opinionsurveys.com
mail.opinionsurveys.com has address 207.218.165.202
indigojo_uk ~ $ traceroute mail.opinionsurveys.com
traceroute to mail.opinionsurveys.com (207.218.165.202), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  * * *
 2  rasa2nrp4.reading.broadband.bt.net (213.120.155.15)  20.085 ms  20.72 ms  20.237 ms
 3  rasa2nrp6.reading.broadband.bt.net (213.120.155.23)  19.083 ms  13.412 ms  14.718 ms
 4  81.146.244.61 (81.146.244.61)  18.638 ms  13.149 ms  14.734 ms
 5  core2-pos4-1.reading.ukcore.bt.net (194.72.0.209)  17.008 ms  13.659 ms  17.335 ms
 6  core2-pos5-0.ilford.ukcore.bt.net (194.74.65.221)  13.751 ms  19.177 ms  18.856 ms
 7  core2-pos13-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (194.74.65.125)  17.251 ms  19.274 ms  18.782 ms
 8  194.74.65.14 (194.74.65.14)  18.144 ms  19.397 ms  19.191 ms
 9  so0-0-0-2488m.ar3.lax1.gblx.net (67.17.68.141)  152.226 ms  153.168 ms  152.899 ms
10  mail.opinionsurveys.com (207.218.165.202)  152.07 ms  153.561 ms  152.831 ms

So, if you've got this spam, the address to complain to is abuse@gblx.net, which I managed to get off Global Crossing's website. Don't hesitate to complain to them!

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