[tor-relays] Jerk spammers on tor-relays (was Re: Fwd: Tor GuardRelay)

[Keifer Bly]

So, for me, it appears that the jerk spammers have advanced, Instead of
sending spam to the tor-relays at lists.torproject.org email address, they are
now directly sending spam to specific addresses subscribed to the list. I
got one today from  colemanrosettad at gmail.com, and have been receiving some
over the last few days that were sent directly to this email address. I did
not think they were related, but the other email addresses the one I
received today was also sent to the addresses below, which I believe are
addresses that are subscribed to the list. I have reported it to Google via
their abuse report email address which is registrar-abuse at google.com, so I
will see what they say (and forward it to the list if requested).

The other addresses were: johndalton289 at gmail.com, and teor2345 at gmail.com.
I tried attaching a photo of the "to" field but it was rejected due to size
limitations.


Just thought I'd give a heads up.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 9:10 PM Keifer Bly <keifer.bly at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, for me, it appears that the jerk spammers have advanced, Instead of
> sending spam to the tor-relays at lists.torproject.org email address, they
> are now directly sending spam to specific addresses subscribed to the list.
> I got one today from  colemanrosettad at gmail.com, and have been
> receiving some over the last few days that were sent directly to this email
> address. I did not think they were related, but the other email addresses
> the one I received today was also sent to the addresses in the attached
> photo, which I believe are addresses that are subscribed to the list. I
> have reported it to Google via their abuse report email address which is
> registrar-abuse at google.com, so I will see what they say (and forward it
> to the list if requested).
>
> Just thought I'd give a heads up.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 7:47 PM Keifer Bly <keifer.bly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I looked it up. You can forward the spams that the Gmail address are
>> sending to registrar-abuse at google.com, which reports spam emails and
>> inappropriate content being sent by Gmail users to Google. Try that.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net>
>> *Sent: *Friday, July 13, 2018 7:41 PM
>> *To: *tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
>> *Subject: *Re: [tor-relays] Jerk spammers on tor-relays (was Re: Fwd:
>> Tor GuardRelay)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 07/13/2018 03:07 PM, Keifer Bly wrote:
>>
>> > Dang. I stopped getting them for a while due to the SPAM filter I
>>
>> > configured in Gmail, however they are now coming through again. These
>>
>> > spammers are trying to be smart by sending these spam messages from
>>
>> > different domains; they are now coming from
>>
>> > scarlettsofia710182 at it.argmx.com
>>
>> >
>>
>> > Anyone else  getting these?
>>
>> >
>>
>> > Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> I haven't received those after posts since June 27. And nothing from
>>
>> *.argmx.com. But I am getting sex spam from a few Gmail addresses, with
>>
>> blank subject lines. New, and perhaps related.
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 10:38 PM Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> <SNIP>
>>
>>
>>
>> >> Maybe there is a mailman module that lets you send a different
>> watermarked
>>
>> >> mail to each subscriber, or to send mails out with different timing
>>
>> >> patterns to do a binary search over the list, in order to discover
>> which
>>
>> >> addresses are triggering the spam? But I don't know of an easy way to
>>
>> >> do it.
>>
>>
>>
>> That would be a bad precedent, I think ;)
>>
>>
>>
>> >> Also, I hear from at least one person that some tor-dev subscribers are
>>
>> >> getting spams too. :(
>>
>>
>>
>> Searching for the spam addresses, I found reports from other mail lists.
>>
>> So it's not just Tor lists.
>>
>>
>>
>> <SNIP>
>>
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>>
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