And so it’s Fri and the feedback for the Phishing Season Is Over article is in and I thought I would share it with you as we bring this week to a close. With that in mind, I’ll be seeing you Monday!

Gress writes:

Matt -

The company is called “Link” and here is the news they say:

2006-06-19 - official opening IRC of network Link-Kremen. Net Appears!

Welcome!
Official opening IRC of network Link-Kremen. Net appears!

For users which are subscribers ISP Link, IRC address of a server is identical to VPN address of a server, it it is possible… More in detail
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2006-03-24 - Here new “corner” in world wide web TOP CITY also is created!

Here also new “corner” in a world wide web ” is created. For certain similar the weight is created daily… But we (organizers) of this “place” sincerely hope that for many… More in detail
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2006-03-08 - the Prices for the Internet fall!!!

The company the LINK enters новыйе attractive tariff packages “Универсал” and “Unlimited” for users of house networks. On conditions of connection and quotations address in оффис to the address of… More in detail

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Pardon the bad translation, but I only speak a little Russian so I used an online translator.

While I do not think that clears them from the phishing, they do also give an address, telephone number and even an ICQ contact number. I suspect that one of their clients performed the phishing and they are not checking how their services are being used.

Anyway, it’s interesting how different parts of the world come and go with various scams - Nigeria, Moscow, Ukraine, China, Taiwan, etc.. and - oh yeah - the USA.

My question is: Who do you complain to about this event? Do you write Link and tell them? Perhaps they don’t even speak English. They are not in a major city in the Ukraine, so it’s possible that they do not. ICANN? Do they care? Are there any overseers for this kind of problem? Oh well, another day, another sucker.

Wayne writes:

Matt, Since the start of the year I have painstakingly recorded and reported about 200+ phishing scams for paypal, ebay, lotteries, every known bank, mortgage companies, etc. I’ve sent reports to Paypal, eBay, the Anti Phishing Working Group, Castlecops, etc. Often I get back some generated email with some pap about how to identify a phishing scam (like I didn’t know already).

All these institutions claim to follow up with law enforcement, but of course they must keep their legal actions “confidential” (if they were really doing something they should advertise it, to scare off new crooks!). The net is that I heartily endorse a block on the Ukraine and anyone else that is not working to stop this tsunami of phishing attempts.

It’s amazing how many I track back to Red China. Why are American companies bending over backwards to accommodate China, while Chinese spammers and phishing crooks blithely ignore any law?? Maybe we should form our own posse and go after these crooks? Or how about routing all phishing scams and spammers back to their own government websites??? with an honest request for enforcement??

Hans writes:

Hi Matt,

Please, no amount of blacklisting does anything.
All we need are knee jerk reactions to bad boys by inventing yet another RULE to enforce!

Do the least fascist thing, Matt, and keep helping your friends and readers to become more savvy, more independent, and more aware.
Would if one irritated tyrant decided to blacklist all guys named Matt?

Jeff writes:

“What do you think? Should we make the total lack of law enforcement or funds to enforce international common sense a problem solved by blacklisting IPs from countries who have done NOTHING to stop this behavior?”
If this domain is clearly registered, how about we organize a campaign to complain to the registrar? If they get enough complaints, maybe they’ll get word through to the registering party. IF the thing was actually hosted by the person who registered it, then it could be effective.
Unfortunately, that’s a lot of IF’s….