It may come as something of a surprise
to some, but spamtrackers.eu is not visible from China, where it is
blacklisted.I do not know the reasons for this blacklisting, other than perhaps it has to do with an automated rejection of content based on the 'spammy' content. Indeed, to a robot reading spamtrackers.eu, the content is the same as all the usual spam and phishing operations. The difference, of course, is that the spam wiki is there to present the content and to help the public by analyzing it.
And of course the irony of blacklisting one of the internet's best resources on spam while leaving thousands of spammers to go about their business, does not go unnoticed. After all, according to Spamhaus, China is (a distant) second only to the United States in the total number of spams sent.
The most interesting part about
investigating any abuse claim is looking at the Whois information. While
registrars can suspend domains if they are used for spamming, botnets, etc.,
there is of course the stage where the registrant details are examined for
accuracy. Sometims the information is random, sometimes hilarious, but other
times it is stolen from real people, or made to look genuine (
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