Steve

Now I'm getting THESE BS emails. It seems the private Google Groups emails have stopped for now. Emails originate from the ikoula network. I've already received 3 of these emails today. Here's the tracking url for the latest one: https://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z6505558234z3da0d3fc609eb83151c7d82976a38ba7z The emails are always formatted the same way each time: I still report the emails to abuse (at) ikoula.com even though SC dev/nulls them and says "abuse reports disabled for abuse (at) ikoula.com".

Tried submitting this email multiple times, but I still get the same message. Tracking URL is below: https://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z6505543951z6e9f673d70b3c103c95f5fc0c9a8967fz Steve Feel free to move this post to the correct board as you see fit.

How are private Google Groups allowed to send these unsolicited emails and then include a bunch of shady email addresses that no one should think twice of sending emails to to get their email addy removed from said list that they were never on in the first place?!?!?!?!?

https://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z6500582411zb083caf96b377be2b7e96647e40d66d3z According to a RIPE whois query, admin@it.ua is the abuse contact for this IP address https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/#/query?bflag&searchtext=91.200.74.13&source=RIPE#resultsSection

https://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z6499662004z6a4c2335c60773ff37fb0f7668385d6dz Parsing header: host 2001:12f0:601:a902:0:0:0:150 = turquesa.dcc.ufmg.br (cached)turquesa.dcc.ufmg.br is 2001:12f0:601:a902:0:0:0:150 0: Received: from smtp.dcc.ufmg.br (turquesa.dcc.ufmg.br. [2001:12f0:601:a902::150]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id a44si116985qvh.91.2018.11.11.09.04.47; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:04:49 -0800 (PST) Hostname verified: turquesa.dcc.ufmg.brGmail/Postini received mail from sending system 2001:12f0:601:a902:0:0:0:150 1: Received: from webmail.dcc.ufmg.br (xisto.dcc.ufmg.br [2001:12f0:601:a902::150]) by smtp.dcc.ufmg.br (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E90409F094; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 15:04:46 -0200 (-02) Hostname verified: xisto.dcc.ufmg.br Possible forgery. Supposed receiving system not associated with any of your mailhosts Will not trust this Received line. Tracking message source: 2001:12f0:601:a902:0:0:0:150: Display data:"whois 2001:12f0:601:a902:0:0:0:150@whois.lacnic.net" (Getting contact from whois.lacnic.net)Backup contact owner-c = rco217Using NS name gerencia.rede.ufmg.br to find domain and contact Display data: "whois rede.ufmg.br@whois.nic.br" (Getting contact from whois.nic.br) Backup contact owner-c = ura ura = r-admin@rede.ufmg.br urt = r-tecnic@rede.ufmg.br whois.nic.br rede.ufmg.br = r-admin@rede.ufmg.br, r-tecnic@rede.ufmg.br, mail-abuse@cert.brsic128 = cais@cais.rnp.brwhois.lacnic.net found abuse contacts for 2001:12f0:601:a902:0:0:0:150 = cais@cais.rnp.br Cannot find ip range in whois output No reporting addresses found for 2001:12f0:601:a902:0:0:0:150, using devnull for tracking. Yum, this spam is fresh! Message is 2 hours old2001:12f0:601:a902:0:0:0:150 not listed in cbl.abuseat.org2001:12f0:601:a902:0:0:0:150 not listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net2001:12f0:601:a902:0:0:0:150 not listed in accredit.habeas.com2001:12f0:601:a902:0:0:0:150 not listed in plus.bondedsender.org2001:12f0:601:a902:0:0:0:150 not listed in iadb.isipp.com Finding links in message body Parsing text partno links found Reports regarding this spam have already been sent: Re: 2001:12f0:601:a902:0:0:0:150 (Administrator of network where email originates) Reportid: 6876124444 To: nomaster@devnull.spamcop.net If reported today, reports would be sent to: Re: 2001:12f0:601:a902:0:0:0:150 (Administrator of network where email originates) nomaster@devnull.spamcop.net 2nd report using 3rd Rcvd line in header: https://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z6499662490z5bdb0567e14f44de3e07c2fbad0f6158z Parsing header: 0: Received: from smtp.dcc.ufmg.br (turquesa.dcc.ufmg.br. [150.164.0.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id a44si116985qvh.91.2018.11.11.09.04.47; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:04:49 -0800 (PST) Hostname verified: xisto.dcc.ufmg.brGmail/Postini received mail from sending system 150.164.0.133 1: Received: from webmail.dcc.ufmg.br (xisto.dcc.ufmg.br [150.164.0.133]) by smtp.dcc.ufmg.br (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E90409F094; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 15:04:46 -0200 (-02) Hostname verified: xisto.dcc.ufmg.br Possible forgery. Supposed receiving system not associated with any of your mailhosts Will not trust this Received line. Cached whois for 150.164.0.133 : search-apnic-not-arin@apnic.netI refuse to bother search-apnic-not-arin@apnic.net. Using search-apnic-not-arin#apnic.net@devnull.spamcop.net for statistical tracking. Using last resort contacts search-apnic-not-arin#apnic.net@devnull.spamcop.net

Just reported several more today. At some point Google's gonna have to take action against this IP address.

Nope. The unsubscribe link is a bunch of shady email addresses that I wouldn’t think twice of sending emails to! I received several more in my spam folder today. I have yet to do anything with them. Should I do something with them?

Short of writing Google a letter to get them to stop these emails being sent from IP address 209.85.220.69, what can I do to get them to take appropriate action against this and blacklist it so it can't be used for spam anymore? I have reported 13 emails to Google's abuse address about this in the last 2 days and 39 in total (I get 3-4 a day). They came from several different email addresses, usually the 1st one: Unsubscribe-me132 <unsubscribe-me132@mitindrhm.cf>, "Please Confirm <strapgr_213@hapt01cn.ml>" or variants/variations of it, such as this one: ("Please Confirm <strapgr_142@michellelafosse.ml>" or this one: "congratulations <strapgr_241@moriyama.ml>"), "Unsubscribe-me132 <unsubscribe-me132@denamarke.tk>" Attempting to access any of the Group URLs (such as the one below and its variants/variations) in the emails results in the url redirecting to this 2nd link as well displaying this when clicking on the 2nd link: https://groups.google.com/a/mitindrhm.cf/group/unsubscribe-me132 Google Groups Authorization Failed This group is on a private domain. Please sign in with an authorized account to view this content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's tracking URL for one of the emails https://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z6497296422zc7cd4be6fe49cdb5a13994e922e19258z

When SC parses an IP address in this range (37.49.230.0 - 37.49.230.255) the abuse contact that comes up is abuse (at) estroweb.in. Meanwhile, if I run a RIPE query, the abuse contact comes up as abuse (at) cloudstar.is. Wonder why that is?

Just checked here and that email addres is already there:

It seems from the auto-reply emails (and whois lookups) that they're a French ISP.

So then how do the spam reports that are dev/nulled get handled?

Ok, so when SC "dev/null"s the reporting addresses, does the ISP still receive and process/handle the reports?

Not sure why SC "dev/null"s this email address, but when I manually report emails to the address, within a few minutes I get an auto-reply back from Ikoula Support. Is SC refusing to send the emails to that address? https://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z6466514536zb80506f981ff3477ff6381ec10110636z

Why is this?