The IP address belongs to CANTV Servicios which I have seen a LOT of spam
from recently
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Al <alj62888(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I am surprised to see that a spammer is spoofing his
IP address. I got
some spam from 200.90.74.226 - "226" is out of range for IPs and so isn't
even a valid IP address. I confirmed that the number is not a wiki
username and the apache log shows the same IP. It appears maybe the
spammer's script has a bug and not range-checking the generated numbers
which made it obvious that the IP is spoofed; otherwise I would have never
noticed.
I thought IP spoofing was a fairly sophisticated tactic and didn't expect
to see a common wiki spammer using it, or am I wrong? I'm also surprised
apache even allowed the connection, much less the Amazon AWS firewall. Am
I missing something?
Al
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