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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by ram <ra...@netcore.co.in> on 2007/11/13 09:33:26 UTC
googlepages.com abuse
I have recently starting seeing spams with URLS contining googlepages
websites
Currently I am scoring all googlepages.com link mails with 1.5 :-(
How do you folks trap these mails , And how do we report abuse to google
( if they really bother )
Thanks
Ram
Re: googlepages.com abuse
Posted by SM <sm...@resistor.net>.
At 19:31 13-11-2007, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>Er, which RFC are you claiming requires them to have a server to receive mail?
It's a BCP quoted by SMTP folks to annoy Web-enabled people. :-)
Regards,
-sm
Re: googlepages.com abuse
Posted by Bart Schaefer <ba...@gmail.com>.
On Nov 13, 2007 3:32 AM, Michael Scheidell <sc...@secnap.net> wrote:
>
> > How do you folks trap these mails , And how do we report
> > abuse to google ( if they really bother )
> You can't. Google ignores complaints, and email to @googlepages.com
> will bounce in 5 days due to their refusal to even follow the RFC's and
> have a server to receive email.
Er, which RFC are you claiming requires them to have a server to receive mail?
In any case I inquired of an acquaintance who works at Google and got
this response to the question of "how do we report abuse":
Web link: http://www.google.com/support/pages/bin/request.py
with links there for spam, phishing, scumware, etc.
Email links get too heavily spammed so the one contact address which has
leaked gets a push-back mail to use the web form. All complaints are
acted upon quickly but no individual replies are sent. Quickly here is
in practice within one business day (but I don't believe that there's a
formal commitment to this).
Any evidence that a complaint has been ignored would be interesting to
see; ultimately, "is the page still up?" is the check.
Re: googlepages.com abuse
Posted by Ramprasad <ra...@netcore.co.in>.
alex wrote:
> I made a script too, then I found your script when I searched later!
> Your script is more efficient, now I just use yours :P I call it
> directly from procmail.
>
glad to be of use , it was not a great effort though
BTW I think google has started taking complaints seriously. I dont seem
many such spams now
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Re: googlepages.com abuse
Posted by alex <al...@zoosmart.us>.
I made a script too, then I found your script when I searched later!
Your script is more efficient, now I just use yours :P I call it
directly from procmail.
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:42:53AM +0530, ram wrote:
> ----
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> # Script to emulate a browser for posting a abuse complaint to google
> use strict;
> # Modules with routines for making the browser.
> use LWP::UserAgent;
> use HTTP::Request::Common;
> use Data::Dumper;
> my %tag;
>
> $tag{url}='http://www.google.com/support/pages/bin/request.py?ctx=submitted&confirm=abuse_spam';
>
> my ($URL,$BODY);
> while(<>){
> $BODY.=$_;
> if(m;(https?://[\w\_\-\.]+\.googlepages.com);){
> $URL=$1;
> }
> }
> unless($URL) {
> die "Could not get googlepages URL\n";
> }
>
> $tag{fields} = {
> 'extra.Language' => 'en',
> 'extra.IssueType' => 'abuse_spam',
> 'subject' => '',
> 'extra.Name' => 'Ramprasad A Padmanabhan',
> 'email' => 'ram@netcore.co.in',
> 'extra.Name' => $URL,
> 'body' => $BODY,
> 'Action_Send' => 'Submit'
> };
> #print Dumper([\%tag]); exit 0;
> my $lwp = new LWP::UserAgent;
> if($tag{browser}) { $lwp->agent($tag{browser}); }
> my $Page = $lwp->request(POST $tag{url},$tag{fields});
> if ($Page->is_success) { print $Page->content; }
> else { print $Page->message; }
>
> --------------------------------
RE: googlepages.com abuse
Posted by ram <ra...@netcore.co.in>.
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 06:32 -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ram [mailto:ram@netcore.co.in]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:33 AM
> > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> > Subject: googlepages.com abuse
> >
> >
> > I have recently starting seeing spams with URLS containing
> > Google pages websites
> >
> > Currently I am scoring all googlepages.com link mails with 1.5 :-(
> > How do you folks trap these mails , And how do we report
> > abuse to google ( if they really bother )
> You can't. Google ignores complaints, and email to @googlepages.com
> will bounce in 5 days due to their refusal to even follow the RFC's and
> have a server to receive email.
>
> Change the score to 10 and don't look back.
> Let their users have their own isolated piece of the spam infected
> world.
>
I have written a short script to send the complain to google. AFAIK
Google should not mind a BOT sending them a complain
I simply alias this script and send the google abuse to this alias
If anyone wants to use this ( just change the name and id )
----
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Script to emulate a browser for posting a abuse complaint to google
use strict;
# Modules with routines for making the browser.
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use Data::Dumper;
my %tag;
$tag{url}='http://www.google.com/support/pages/bin/request.py?ctx=submitted&confirm=abuse_spam';
my ($URL,$BODY);
while(<>){
$BODY.=$_;
if(m;(https?://[\w\_\-\.]+\.googlepages.com);){
$URL=$1;
}
}
unless($URL) {
die "Could not get googlepages URL\n";
}
$tag{fields} = {
'extra.Language' => 'en',
'extra.IssueType' => 'abuse_spam',
'subject' => '',
'extra.Name' => 'Ramprasad A Padmanabhan',
'email' => 'ram@netcore.co.in',
'extra.Name' => $URL,
'body' => $BODY,
'Action_Send' => 'Submit'
};
#print Dumper([\%tag]); exit 0;
my $lwp = new LWP::UserAgent;
if($tag{browser}) { $lwp->agent($tag{browser}); }
my $Page = $lwp->request(POST $tag{url},$tag{fields});
if ($Page->is_success) { print $Page->content; }
else { print $Page->message; }
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RE: googlepages.com abuse
Posted by Michael Scheidell <sc...@secnap.net>.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ram [mailto:ram@netcore.co.in]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:33 AM
> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: googlepages.com abuse
>
>
> I have recently starting seeing spams with URLS containing
> Google pages websites
>
> Currently I am scoring all googlepages.com link mails with 1.5 :-(
> How do you folks trap these mails , And how do we report
> abuse to google ( if they really bother )
You can't. Google ignores complaints, and email to @googlepages.com
will bounce in 5 days due to their refusal to even follow the RFC's and
have a server to receive email.
Change the score to 10 and don't look back.
Let their users have their own isolated piece of the spam infected
world.
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