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.comSent : 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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