20.90.82.75 - "Using rdns to route to correct Microsoft department" but reports go to spammer

[Snowbat]

20.33.0.0 - 20.128.255.255 is Microsoft but SpamCop reports 20.90.82.75 directly to the spammer. I've seen similar misreporting for other Microsoft-hosted spammers.

 

https://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z6710176742za59c59960c7ca612142f7013dcb98e0ez

 

Tracking message source: 20.90.82.75:

Routing details for 20.90.82.75
[refresh/show] Cached whois for 20.90.82.75 : [email protected]
Using best contacts [email protected]
Using rdns to route to correct Microsoft department
host 20.90.82.75 = descontosapp108.confiraseusdescontosepontos.com. (cached)
abuse net confiraseusdescontosepontos.com = [email protected]

 

If reported today, reports would be sent to:

Re: 20.90.82.75 (Administrator of network where email originates)

[email protected]

 

[RobiBue]

just want to say that the address it "would" report to is dead (does not exist)

you'd get a bounce.

see: https://www.spamcop.net/sc?track=postmaster%40confiraseusdescontosepontos.com

 

Parsing input: [email protected]

Cannot find an MX for confiraseusdescontosepontos.com
Host confiraseusdescontosepontos.com (checking ip) IP not found ; confiraseusdescontosepontos.com discarded as fake.
No mail exchanger. Email to this address would bounce.
Cannot resolve [email protected]
No valid email addresses found, sorry!

 

[gnarlymarley]

Some SMTP mailers could try to send it to the A record if no MX.  But then it appears there is no A record either.

C:\>nslookup confiraseusdescontosepontos.com
Server:         192.168.1.1
Address:        192.168.1.1#53

** server can't find confiraseusdescontosepontos.com: NXDOMAIN


C:\>

 

[gnarlymarley]

On 4/23/2021 at 7:25 AM, Snowbat said:

is Microsoft but SpamCop reports 20.90.82.75 directly to the spammer

I suspect the reason for this is Microsoft thinks the cloud issues need to be sent to the company's administrator.  This could be a problem of cloud computing where a large company who wants to deal with their spam from their own employees want to get it directly.  The downside is that smaller companies of say one individual that is the sole sender then also gets the reports.