Tuesday, 21 November 2006

Wanted List of Spammers Released

Spam continues to plague the Internet because a small number of large Internet Service Providers sell service knowingly to professional spammers for profit, or do nothing to prevent spammers operating from their networks.

Although all networks claim to be anti-spam, some network executives factor revenue made from hosting known spam gangs into corporate policy decisions to continue to sell services to spam operations. Others simply decide that closing the holes in their end-user broadband systems that allow spammers access would be too costly to their bottom lines.

The majority of the world's service providers succeed in keeping spammers off their networks and work to maintain an anti-spam reputation, but their work is undermined daily by the few networks who, out of corporate greed or mismanagement, choose to be part of the problem.

According to Spamhaus, a company that tracks Internet Spammers, the world's worst spam problem networks today are:

Figure 1: The Ten Worst Spam Service ISPs Source: Spamhaus Blocklist (SBL) database