For a while now, I've been "manually reporting" spam through SpamCop using the cut-and-paste feature, fill in the comment field(s) with a "condensed" complainterator-ish template, something like:

"Please suspend the domain referenced within this unsolicited spam e-mail that has been registered by you."

To also include link(s) to CastleCops Bulk Spam Report progress page if it's a "targetted" registrar.


Anyways, the following mail floated into my box from HICHINA - since I included the HICHINA contacts for a HICHINA-registered domain I reported within SpamCop:
From: "cathy peng" <pengqing@hichina.com>
To: "'me'" <me@reports.spamcop.net>,
<english@hichina.com>
Cc: <abuse@hichina.com>
Subject: RE: [SpamCop (Forwarded Spam) id:3xxxxxxx17]rw:
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:19:20 +0800
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="gb2312"
In-Reply-To: <rid_xxxxxx1917@msgid.spamcop.net>
Message-ID: <1216xxxxxx$8xxxx$1xxx5371@pengqing@hichina.com>


Dear Sir/Madam,

Please contact CNCERT/CC CNCERT/CC(National Computer network Emergency
Response
technical Team/Coordination Center of China www.cert.org.cn) directly.=20
We'll conform to their advices.
=20
Email=A3=BAcncert@cert.org.cn=A1=A1=20
Tel=A3=BA 086-10-82990999=20



Best Regards,

Cathy Peng =20[/quote]


Here's what the report looked like that SpamCop sent - by using SpamCop's "Third party Contact Preferences" control panel, as an FYI.

Hi everyone - my reason for posting in this particular thread will become apparent!

I've been quiet here as my little group of sites gets hardly any spam now & in particular I've gone from 20+ a day on my own address to zero.

Since my clients' sites are unconnected I deduced that the similar-looking spams were all coming from one culprit - we nicknamed him "Mister Tosser" and went after him ruthlessly in every way we could! As most of you here know, he was recently unmasked as Lance Atkinson in New Zealand, and is looking at some serious prison time.

The McColo takedown (San Jose, California, USA) & sentencing of Robert Soloway of Seattle, USA, are also pleasing and contributed hugely to the slump! I posted elsewhere about the extreme effect I have seen, but got the impression others are still receiving loads of spam. Are you?

Apparently there is a major relocation to Russia going on and we'll soon see the same old volumes but I am increasingly sceptical.

Anyway, reason for the post in this thread is this, received from HiChina. We've all been reporting to them for ages, but one of my people has suddenly got this first-ever reply to a last-gasp spam they received.

I think this episode demonstrates that Complainterator has the correct email address ie anti-spam [@] hichina.com. Nonetheless, the question remains - should we copy in cncert?. I never check the links, so it would be good to hear whether or not the offending site is dead:


"RE:Removal request: greatdnserrorinternet[dot]com

Thank you for contacting us and providing the evidence, we have warned
the enterprise email services which you complained.Should you have any
further questions, please feel free to contact us at anti-spam [@] hichina.com

Best wishes,

HiChina Web Solutions Limited

xiaobo he 【 Customer Service Center】


Tel: (86-10)64242299-8313
Fax: (86-10)84134247
Hotline: 400-600-8500
Address: HiChina Mansion, No. 27 Gulouwai Avenue, Dongcheng District,
Beijing 100120, China
Website: www.net.cn www.com.cn


　　　　　HiChina - Web Solutions to Enterprises"


Any comments appreciated.

K

I told my ISP not to filter my email, as they blocked valid ones, too. I use MWP to filter it myself.

That means I can see what is really being sent, not just what is able to evade spam filters. I saw no decrease when SanCash went down, just a change in the brands being spammed. The mccolo thing did have a very big effect, but I'm still getting hundreds of spams a day, and it's starting to go back up again now.

Friday was a historic day for me -- I got only 3 (three) spam messages that day. Over the weekend it got already back into the hundreds.