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Help! I've been spammed by Nato

Cyberwarfare's collateral damage
Thursday, 15 November 2007, 14:15

I GET MY FAIR SHARE of spam. And most of it is adequately removed by SpamAssassin. However, one got through today that I just thought I might report to the offending domain.

This is part of the message header that was received (some detail removed):

Received: from your-0xv8v0oeap
by 98degreesfans.zzn.com with ASMTP id 9D6BCA80
for <softwaresupport@xxxxxx.com> ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:51:06 -0000
Received: from your-0xv8v0oeap ([152.152.85.75])
by 98degreesfans.zzn.com with ESMTP id 39F79B6CB0C4
for <softwaresupport@xxxxxx.com> ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:51:06 -0000
Message-ID: <000c01c82626$1fc38860$f6bdc75a@your0xv8v0oeap>

Looks like your ordinary spam header... so I checked the originating IP address with dnsstuff.com to find the owner and email the abuse@ email address with the message details..

And this is the contact information:

inetnum: 152.152.0.0 - 152.152.255.255
netname: NATO-HQ
descr: NATO Headquarters
descr: Leopold III ln
descr: 1110 Brussels
country: BE

person: WITHHELD*
address: NATO Headquarters
address: 1110 Brussels
address: BE
phone: +32 2 WITHHELD
e-mail: WITHHELD@hq.nato.int

Err... so the NATO Headquarters is sending out spam?

Is this pretty normal for major organisations? I was under the assumption that if anyone had their act together in botty protection it would be them. µ

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It Happens

It’s a typical organization devised from an orgy or castrated government programs... What do you expect?

posted by : P!NG, 15 November 2007 Complain about this comment
hmmm...

...i'm sure eddie appreciates your thorough obfuscation.&#xD;
&#xD;
(Yes, I figure it's probably to avoid him getting indexed, but still...)

posted by : perisoft, 15 November 2007 Complain about this comment
It's obviously from...

the Nigerian Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

posted by : scott, 16 November 2007 Complain about this comment
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