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Spammer reported to Ubiquity Server Solutions
So someone just had to try me on my Rules for leaving comments. Sadly you bottom-feeding pond scum, you picked the wrong day and the wrong time to behave like a t**t. This morning someone using an IP from Ubiquity Server Solutions decided to spam multiple times from the same IP on the same page. I know it was them as they had the same IP address each time. A screenshot of the spam comments and details has been sent.
I’ll update this post with any replies from Ubiquity Server Solutions… If any. I don’t count an automated reply telling me a ticket has been logged.
Oh and they used gmail accounts so I’ll probably report them to Google as well. After some marmite toast, cup of tea and doing the washing up from yesterday (I hate washing up so it’ll put me in the mood for a rant).
Update: Less than an hour later, had a reply from an Allen Jenkins saying they’d passed the complaint onto the customer responsible for the server oh and he added Thanks.
Update: They obviously take things “seriously” given that further spam reports went unanswered and they didn’t deal with the fact the original spammer sent an abusive message.
Way to go on a spam policy!
[...] and observant readers will recognise this as the company (and useless) person who responded to an earlier spam report complete with the same “we’ll refer it to the customer and never get back to you [...]
My forum keeps getting sign ups and multiple attempts with many of them coming from various Ubiquity Server Solution IP ranges. I’m thinking I’m going to block all of their IP ranges from my web sites. I don’t have the time to complain to them if the results are what you got – what I expect. I don’t think I have any legitimate traffic from any of their servers. Though I don’t want to block good people, Ubiquity appears to be a catering to spammers as far as I can tell.
I just want to run some clean, fun fishing web sites. I don’t have staff, time, knowledge to hunt these people down. I do report them to stop forum spam and project honey pot though and have a honey pot identifying spammers (14 new so far). I really appreciate that you and others are taking additional steps to do something with this frustrating situation. The last few days have been ridiculous with spammer signups.
Hey Dan,
Thanks for the feedback.
I’m probably going to use the IP Ban Plugin by Jay Fortner (Spam Karma 2 Blacklist Ban plugin also looks interesting) very soon and start wholesale banning IP groups. After following some spammers who appeared on the surface to be a different company (see my blog post spammer reported to softlayer technologies) which on further investigation end up being Ubiquity Server Solutions. I may even write a post encouraging people and explaining how to track down these bottom feeding pond scum and report them. Maybe if Ubiquity Server Solutions start getting dozens of complaints a day they might actually get off their lazy backsides (Allen Jenkins?) and start doing something about it.
Elliott
Hit from 35 different Ubiquity/Nobis IPs in 30 seconds! Can anybody beat this?
http://h5n1.toolz4schoolz.com/2011/02/ubiquity-servers-worst-spam-attack-yet/
Hi Jon,
Now that is a serious spam attack! I thought I had some issues with Ubiquity Servers.
Thanks for sharing.
Elliott
Hey Elliot,
Thanks for posting this and I wanted to make sure the issues are taken care of for you at this time.
To clarify, all tickets that are submitted to our support center are replied to unless they’re from a “noreply” email but they are still taken care of or followed up upon. If you’re having issues anytime with spam comments, you can always email abuse@nobistech.net as well and we’ll forward the complaints. If the issues keep happening, we’ll take further action. We have a terms of service in place that we also have policies regarding Spam and UCE Complaints and can be found here: http://www.ubiquityservers.com/tos.php that we proactively abuse by. Therefore, every single complaint that gets sent to our abuse department, is worked on by a real human and responded to without predefined replies.
I hope you’re still not having issues with us, and if you are, please feel free to email my personal email I’ve included in the comment for you anytime.
Thanks Again,
Allen Jenkins
Ubiquity Hosting Solutions
Allen,
Since this post I have forwarded other complaints to your company including an abusive reply from the customer after I complained. To put it blunty have been underwhelmed with the responses to spam reports I have made to your company.
Elliott
> “we also have policies regarding Spam and UCE Complaints and can be found here: http://www.ubiquityservers.com/tos.php that we proactively abuse by.”
Says it all really. Which of the spam-coddlers is next up, Branden Stanley?
Allen, could you tell us more about Boboc, Alexandru – Ion, Pana – Niculae, Bogdan-Constantin – Sigmund Gainey? Mr Boboc especially seems to enjoy doing business with Ubiquity/Nobis – you assign him a /24 or /23 on an almost weekly basis.
This might be the latest:
http://whois.domaintools.com/173.234.238.226
… spamming away within hours.
… or there might be one more recent than that.
Hi Jon,
Thanks for your comment, just confirms my original thoughts that I wasn’t the only person who was suffering from spam via Ubiquity Servers et al.
Elliott
I’m the Jon that posted above, comment #3. See that link and notice all the Ubiquity spam on it. They started slowly at first but then they really got to it. How pathetic.
Oh I mentioned how Allen’s friends were allocated 108.62.0.0/16 back in December 2010 – since then they’ve reassigned most of that to the Romanian spammers* – many reassignments took place on April 03rd or 04th and they continued until yesterday – watch out for a big increase in Nobis spam.
*or convenient proxy entities – it must get quite tiresome having to fill out a real U.S. address that checks out to a real entity in those whois records.
Btw can you let me know whether or not Allen visited you via a .phnx.qwest.net address? Would be quite strange if he did.