Wallace B. McClure

Yeah, I'm getting crap from them too. Only a bunch of tools would spam people complaining about spam!

Yeah, I got another one late yesterday afternoon.

Has anyone managed to figure out an address for these jokers (Spamis)? I got a 3rd email from these jerks today.

Funny - they keep sending out fake news articles about microsoft.

I'd think MS would wanna get ahold of these jokers and put a stop to it.
It's not as if they don't have enough REAL problems without these dill-weeds on the loose.

SPAMIS is Robert Soloway and he lives in Seattle, WA. You can read about this scumbag and see his last known good address/phone number, etc. at:
http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/listing.lasso?-op=cn&spammer=Robert%20Soloway%20-%20Newport%20Internet%20Marketing

I'm glad that a company with DEEP pockets (Microsoft) is dogging this moron with its legal team and I hope others follow suit.

This guy has sent me enough spam. And incidentially I live in SEATTLE, too. If I catch him in the city, I'm not going to give him a moment of peace. The jerk needs to learn that email is a private asset, not something to be abused like telemarketing used to be abused.

Glad I found this group! I've been trying to track this through Gernamy, Amterdam, etc. for a few days. This guy hacked into our company's FormMail last week, and then just yesterday. We have a contact page where you enter your info, etc. and it goes to our sales dept. They sent the infamous Microsoft spam out (saying it was from me, to God knows who) as well as dumping about 20 emails into my email box.

I don't know if you noticed this, but in several of the emails we got there were listed one of two AOL email addresses. They are: mhkoch321@aol.com and bergkoch8@aol.com. Anyone have any info on these?

I hate these guys! Now I get a message today ending with the comment that they are about to increase their spam output 20x! Isn't there some way to shut this guy down????

About.com reported on July 22, 2005, that Spamhaus claims he is using zombie PC's to do his dirty work. :(

chris

This Spamis is crap. I get at least 25 emails a day in my company email account... and yes, it is from my email account address. The jerk needs to be stopped.

Yes, he uses zombies. Last week I got his crap from a dynamic address in Germany. Since we have no business dealings outside the US, we have already blocked most European addresses, but this was one I had missed. I added the large range of RIPE-assigned addresses to our firewall DENY list. Today, I got one from a dynamic address at Columbia U -- probably some clueless infected student.

I'm getting them saying the return address is me. I'd like to find him also.

looking at the source I got a number at

207.179.106.185
Record Type: IP Address

OrgName: ACD Internet Services
OrgID: ACDC
Address: 4980 Northwind Drive
City: East Lansing
StateProv: MI
PostalCode: 48823
Country: US

NetRange: 207.179.64.0 - 207.179.127.255
CIDR: 207.179.64.0/18
NetName: ACDNET-1
NetHandle: NET-207-179-64-0-1
Parent: NET-207-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.ACD.NET
NameServer: NS2.ACD.NET
Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate: 1999-08-31
Updated: 2002-05-03

TechHandle: KS550-ARIN
TechName: Schoen, Kevin
TechPhone: +1-517-333-0900
TechEmail: schoen.kevin@acd.net

OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE404-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Abuse Contact
OrgAbusePhone: +1-517-333-0900
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@acd.net

OrgTechHandle: JG1193-ARIN
OrgTechName: Grover, Joe
OrgTechPhone: +1-517-333-0900
OrgTechEmail: grover.joe@acd.net

OrgTechHandle: IPADM103-ARIN
OrgTechName: IP Administrator
OrgTechPhone: +1-517-333-0900
OrgTechEmail: ipadmin@acd.net



And I also see a qtm.net

Quantum Connections
211 Hilltop Rd.
St. Joseph, MI 49085
US

Domain Name: QTM.NET

Administrative Contact
Quantum Connections Network Operations Center: qtmnoc@QTM.NET
Quantum Connections, LLC
211 Hilltop Road
St. Joseph, MI 49085
US
Phone 269-926-4242
Fax 269-926-6363
Technical Contact
Quantum Connections Network Operations Center: qtmnoc@QTM.NET
Quantum Connections, LLC
211 Hilltop Road
St. Joseph, MI 49085
US
Phone 269-926-4242
Fax 269-926-6363
Billing Contact
Quantum Connections Network Operations Center: qtmnoc@QTM.NET
Quantum Connections, LLC
211 Hilltop Road
St. Joseph, MI 49085
US
Phone 269-926-4242
Fax 269-926-6363

Record updated date: 2005-06-03 08:04:15
Record created date: 1995-08-31
Record expires on date: 2006-08-30
Database last updated on: 2005-09-15 13:54:58 EST

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.QTM.NET 216.163.32.51
NS2.QTM.NET 216.163.32.52

TransferGuard LOCK Status => ENABLED

Both in Michigan about 110 miles apart

I was getting spam from this clown. Now I get the some rotten garbage, but It's Identifying Itself as me. I'm annoyed this joker complains about Microsoft sending spam, yet I have not received unsolicited mail from Microsoft, but I do from this major pain in the butt.

I am getting this trash which appears as from my own email account to myself! I have had enought. He may reside in Washington State, which I also reside and I have filed a complaint with the Attorney General this date. Hopefully WA State anti spam law (that MR Robert Soloway complains about) will shut him down. Anyone in Washington State should also file a complaint with the Attorney General. It was bad enought when he sent his trash, now it appears I am sending it!!!

Why not add yourself in the "blacklist" of your spam software. Why? Well numerous spammers have figured out to send mail from "yourself" as it will get through. But in all reality you would rarely ever send email to yourself. If you find that you need to move data or information from PC to PC, most of us have 2nd, 3rd, and 10th email accounts. Send them to one of them (not back to yourself per say).

Sucks but at least it fixes this idiot.

I got about one a week from SPAMIS, and this week I have gotten 2 of their "news articles", with my own address in the FROM line. Now I'm mad! AAARRRGGGHHH!! Can anyone help me figure out what the following details reveal?


X-x: TimeOut+OK 2461 octets
Return-path: <gene@phantasmphoto.com>
Envelope-to: gene@phantasmphoto.com
Delivery-date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:20:43 -0700
Received: from [140.120.90.198] (helo=66.249.137.30)
by dwhs30.dwhs.net with smtp (Exim 4.52)
id 1EG9aU-0001DV-9E
for gene@phantasmphoto.com; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:20:43 -0700
Received: from localhost.localdomain (HELO localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by argon.kittymail.com (Mostfix) with ESMTP id BAD1123BFF
for <gene@phantasmphoto.com>; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:06:43 -0300
Message-Id: <200309010816.06350.allied@lycos.com >
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:14:43 +0500
From: "gene@phantasmphoto.com" <gene@phantasmphoto.com>
To: gene@phantasmphoto.com
Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft Plans to Outsource Over 10,000 Jobs to China
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13
X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0537-1, 09/14/2005), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean

I as well have recieved emails from my own email address from this guy. I called him at his Seattle business phone number and left a message to please cease. It actually increased.. I as well will be lodging a complaint at the Washington State DA and GA offices.

For those looking to say hi and send love... Here is his company info...

SPAMIS, Box 1259, Seattle, WA 98111 / Phone & Fax: (206)260-2409

AKA
Mr. Robert Soloway
1200 Western Avenue
98101 Seattle
Washington
Tel: +1 (206) 226-9558 (206)223-1270
email: nim@cyberservices.com

Robert Alan Soloway
SPAMIS, PO Box 1259, Seattle, WA 98111, USA
Fax: (206)260-2409 or (503)213-6416

As of Nov 6, 2004, Robert Soloway’s NIM/Newport Internet Marketing is an active corporate entity in Washington State. This corporate name was registered in WA in Dec, 2003. Soloway’s “corporation” is run out of his apartment at the Harbors Apartments in Seattle.
–
Washington State Dept of Revenue
State Business Records Database Detail

TAX REGISTRATION NUMBER:…6024226472
UBI:…………………..6024226472
LEGAL ENTITY:…………..NEWPORT INTERNET MARKETING CORP
DOING BUSINESS AS:………NIM CORPORATION

MAILING ADDRESS:
1200 WESTERN AVE APT 17E
SEATTLE, WA 98101-2964

BUSINESS LOCATION:
1200 WESTERN AVE STE 17-E
SEATTLE, WA 98101-0000

OWNER TYPE:…………….CORPORATION
ACCOUNT OPENED:…………12/01/2003
ACCOUNT CLOSED:…………OPEN
STD INDUSTRIAL CODE:…….5961


heres the address to the Washington State Attorney General...

http://www.atg.wa.gov/

Lets stop this guy..

I have received emails from my OWN email address from this guy, SPAMIS-Robert Alan Soloway . Isn'this illegal? Please put a stop to this now!

Linda, I see no direct way to stop this ill dude. What I done, although being a dutchman in Holland, is go to http://www.atg.wa.gov/consumer/forms/emailc3.html and fill in that form as complete as possible. If 5 bilion people would follow this example, U.S. Government c.q. Wahington State MIGHT wake up.

Or won't they?

Thank you to Scott (9/19/05) for the information on Robert Soloway and submitting a complaint to the WA Attorney General. Please, everyone send a complaint to the Atty General in Washington AND to your ISP in order to put a stop to this jerk. Good luck!

Yeah SPAMIS really sucks.

If you read the bottom of his latest email he says "thanks to server donations we're now ready to send out 20x more e-mails 20x faster".

Great he's infected more computers with malware.

This person is stealing people's identity and could easily use that data to cause harm to their reputations and characters. Imagine your boss/customer gets a pornographic spam mail from your email address - even if you can convince them a spammer stole your address the seed of doubt would likely have been planted.

The fact that he can go about his business without interference from the US government and that only when a deep-pockets company such as MS takes him to task is any justice done, is a very sad but true reflection on the US judiciary system. In the US you get the justice you can buy and if no-one can afford to take you to justice then you can merrily go about your illegal way.

I filed with the WA a.g. online. thanks for the info.

I think we all dislike what this Robert Soloway is doing especially stealing out identity as Chris said.

This is annoying to say at least and seriously intruding our privacy is just a fair statement, I suggest we all ask the Washington state government; Microsoft; and even the US federal government to take appropriate action against this joker.

This is clearly a case of abuse of the e-mail system plus identity stealing; misleading information; anti-privacy; and spam. Remember, don’t get mad because that is what he likes to see.

You are not going to find a source for these emails because these guys purposly use dynamic Internet connections. Anyone in the world with an internet connection can set up a mail server. Send out a million emails and shut the server down. Their goal appears to be to harm microsoft with propaganda true or false. God knows there are thousands of microsoft haters out there. US laws can not touch them either since the internet knows no borders and by the time you track down the ISP to somewhere in lala land their server is gone. It's impossible to stop because it sounds like they have a whole network of people and not just an individual. You can lock up this Robert loser but this wouldn't stop because he has already corrupted some other people.

I just got this message

Thanks to Individual and Server Contributions, S P A M I S is Now
"FULLY READY" to Begin Increasing Microsoft Public Service
Announcement Emails to 20 Times the Amount of Internet Email
Users by 25 Times the Current Sending Rate & Speed When a
Certain Activity Transpires to "ANY" Past, Present or Future
S P A M I S Member(s) and/or "ANY" S P A M I S Affiliate(s).

...i've worked it out!
since I recieved this idiot-like stuff from my own adress, i tried everything to stop it. finnally, since I used SPYBOT to take malware out of my system, it stopped...
---by the way MS spyware-doctor found the same malware on my PC, the program would only remove it, after paying some 29 bucks---
I hope my computer would never get on someones nervs again, sending ZOMBIE mails of this jerky kind...

To stop spam from this guy:

Basically, just enter your own address into your own blacklist. It's especially easy for me, since he got mine from my WHOIS info.
Usually you won't send yourself e-mails, as someone else already mentioned, so it's a minimal loss.

And don't fall for spyware programs that charge you $29 to remove spyware. There are a lot of high quality tools available (Spybot S&D, AdAware), you can use virus scanners against malware (Kasperksy), but the thing is - if your PC is really infected by a trojan, chances are you have a rootkit on your PC, which can't really be removed just like that.
You'd need to reinstall your computer, or put your harddisk into another computer that is known to be clean, and scan it for viruses and trojans there. If you don't know how to do that, ask a friend who does. In that case also ask your friend to set up a non-admin account and maybe install a less targeted browser then IE.
That's the way to fight zombie PCs and this creepy spammer-is guy.

I am glad to have found this website through a google search for the word "SPAMIS". I have been receiving emails from the same joker for a few weeks now. I have submitted a complaint to the WA state government after getting all the info from this site.

Thanks to everyone for providing this informaiton.

I appreciate anyones feeling who really hate what this guy is doing... after all it is just spam

But I have to admire the guy... His message is really simple

If Microsoft can do it, why can't I?

I don't get any spam from anyone one ever, I use spamarrest, but like "me" mentioned in the previous comment, I have turned on the ability to send myself emails so unfortunately/fortunately his spam is getting through to me

I quite enjoy reading them to be honest, if I start getting other spam I'll switch it off

Great thread by the way guys I'm glad I found it, some really good informative comments made

Chiefmonkey

I guess we could all do with our ISPs or hosting services putting a block on all mail which includes "S P A M I S" (and any future variation), so the junk doesn't even get seen by us.

The fact it is sent with a "from" mail address of my own is one of the more annoying aspects.

Quoting actual news items might well bring my attention to aspects of Microsoft, and I'm no great fan of theirs, but I'm even less of a fan of this jerk manipulating systems to send his "S P A M I S" junk mail to me over and over.

I get lots, every day, because of different domains I manage for myself and my clients.

Fortunately, my clients are sensible people and don't throw a hissy fit when they see this junk (along with other more offensive material which sometimes gets through), but it really should not be happening, and I would assume either the authorities have staff to sift the junk out of their e-mail, or they are so far removed from daily life they don't have any e-mail account at home... maybe their families can persuade them to take some action, cos us "mere mortals" in the internet community seem to have a hard job convincing them action needs to be taken, and quickly.

I regard junk mail as important as cracking down on illegal copying of software and films/music. Only second to stopping trojans and virus writers, because junk mail is a form of internet anarchy/terrorism, almost as bad as the real thing. Peter, in Europe.

File your complaint:
http://www.atg.wa.gov/consumer/forms/emailc3.html

NEWPORT INTERNET MARKETING CORP
1200 WESTERN AVE APT 17E
SEATTLE, WA 98101-2964

Building is operated by

Harbor Steps Apartments
1221 First Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
206.682.0800 phone
206.682.6045 fax
info@eqr.com email

I just reported this jerk to 3 of the ISPs that he's funneling his garbage thru

I have friends in Seattle and will be contacting them about this moron

http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/31/technology/spam_king/index.htm?postversion=2007053110 I guess thats the end

He could be mixed up in the wrong thing. He could be a good person after all. Maybe this arrest will send him on the right path. Ever think about this person is someones son? Someones friend? Spamming is annoying, I will say that. And I HATE when I get spam mail. But, he is just a person doing what he thinks he can to make a buck.

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