Re: [ga] Porn Spam - From Whois data selling?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,

  I also have noticed a significant increase in porn spam as well as
various
phishing scam attempts.  I can only logically conclude that ICANN is one

of several culprits of this recent increase.


Hugh Dierker wrote:

>    So, believe it or not the last time I visited a site or opened any
> mail having to do in any way with porn was; Clearly before this old
> man got remarried; Doing research for a ccTLD on how best to regulate
> it; And way back when SEX was the most hit name in search engines of
> all things trying to figure out why;.And then some work for the
> Catholic Churches that were getting their Domain Names snatched up in
> the expiry database and switched to old Eastern Euro Block countries
> for uploading porn. Nothing Puritan about me but it just isn't a genre
> that interests me.
>
> But over the last week or so I have been getting tenfold the amount of
> spam with porn as the subject and content. Now it causes me no problem
> but I keep an eye on it through my filters and bulk mail files. So I
> ask why is this happening? I am registered in sites like this boring
> stuff regarding ICANN, Religious and Philosophical sites, Security
> sites, WHO type sites, University sites, International Trade type
> sites, Insurance, Law and IP.
> So must I conclude more farming, phishing, etc. etc.? Or is it sight
> unseen sales of me in a database like a Whois? And why does it ebb and
> flow? The mechanics of spam visa vie porn is most interestingly
> blatant in approach. It will take some work but now I will go into
> those spams and trace back where they got my address. Strange as it
> seems it would appear to coincide with 3 areas I have recently been
> working in USGov, Security and Religion. (believe it or not they are
> very integrated). I wonder which sector has the loosist cybersecurity
> for databases.
>
> e
>

Regards,

--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others" -
    Pierre Abelard

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security
IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
E-Mail jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Registered Email addr with the USPS
Contact Number: 214-244-4827