Spam Outfit?

[John Jupp]

Just wondered about this as I've been contacted by a member of Spam-L to determine this site. I believe it's a tad dodgy.

www.hyipsensor.net

Any thoughts?

[Dynamoo]

Well,

1) news.admin.net-abuse.sightings has a dozen sightings over the past few days
2) The domain is WhoisGuard protected and only created on 26th January, never a good sign
3) HYIP is always to good to be true

sensorhosting.info is run by the same lot it seems, again registered just recently and WhoisGuard protected. hyipsensor.com is also related (although I think it has expired and been reregistered - don't visit the site to be on the safe side).

If you look past the WhoisGuard protection (trade secret), the registration details appear to be:

Domain ID:D16249136-LRMS Domain Name:SENSORHOSTING.INFO Created On:26-Jan-2007 22:41:32 UTC Last Updated On:26-Jan-2007 22:41:42 UTC Expiration Date:26-Jan-2008 22:41:32 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R126-LRMS) Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED Registrant ID:B8F945547EC556D2 Registrant Name:Abd Ghani Awang Eng Registrant Organization:Private Registrant Street1:Lessingstr.3 Registrant Street2: Registrant Street3: Registrant City:Albstadt Registrant State/Province:BA Registrant Postal Code:72458 Registrant Country:DE Registrant Phone:+49.7431500420 Registrant Phone Ext.: Registrant FAX: Registrant FAX Ext.: Registrant Email:shelterofengedi@gmx.net Admin ID:B8F945547EC556D2 Admin Name:Abd Ghani Awang Eng Admin Organization:Private Admin Street1:Lessingstr.3 Admin Street2: Admin Street3: Admin City:Albstadt Admin State/Province:BA Admin Postal Code:72458 Admin Country:DE Admin Phone:+49.7431500420 Admin Phone Ext.: Admin FAX: Admin FAX Ext.: Admin Email:shelterofengedi@gmx.net Billing ID:B8F945547EC556D2 Billing Name:Abd Ghani Awang Eng Billing Organization:Private Billing Street1:Lessingstr.3 Billing Street2: Billing Street3: Billing City:Albstadt Billing State/Province:BA Billing Postal Code:72458 Billing Country:DE Billing Phone:+49.7431500420 Billing Phone Ext.: Billing FAX: Billing FAX Ext.: Billing Email:shelterofengedi@gmx.net Tech ID:B8F945547EC556D2 Tech Name:Abd Ghani Awang Eng Tech Organization:Private Tech Street1:Lessingstr.3 Tech Street2: Tech Street3: Tech City:Albstadt Tech State/Province:BA Tech Postal Code:72458 Tech Country:DE Tech Phone:+49.7431500420 Tech Phone Ext.: Tech FAX: Tech FAX Ext.: Tech Email:shelterofengedi@gmx.net Name Server:DNS1.NAME-SERVICES.COM Name Server:DNS2.NAME-SERVICES.COM Name Server:DNS3.NAME-SERVICES.COM Name Server:DNS4.NAME-SERVICES.COM Name Server:DNS5.NAME-SERVICES.COM

Looks like it's this guy over at the talkgold forums. He's quite active there, it seems, check out this recent thread.. and specifically if you look at this post it indicates that the spam is a forgery.

If you check news.admin.net-abuse.sightings for hyipsensor.com it comes up blank. So, regardless of the inherent dodginess of HYIP there is some evidence to indicate that the spam is forged (a "joe job").

Kind of an odd question for here, though?

[lowndsy]

Useful post and all that Dynamoo, and it's nice to see that people can see past the tactics used by spammers, but I thought the rules were not to post whois info? I know he's a spammer, but roolz is roolz...

[Dynamoo]

Actually, I think the guy isn't a spammer given more reading.

One alarming thing though is that this guy's original domain appears to have been "lost" by Registerfly. This seems to be a common problem.. looks like Registerfly is best avoided.

(Mods, feel free to edit my original post if you wish)

[John Jupp]

Cheers Moo for the reply. He is classed as a spammer by Spam-L. They apparently have a fierce debate about him and it was the hyperlinks to Chinese outfits from his website which raised a few hackles. Hence my query.

I'm not a member of Spam-L but some of their members do contact me occasionally to enquire about validity of trading.