On Sunday 21 October 2012 23.29, Reza Farzan wrote:

Hello All,

Does anyone know what is going on at Benin Telecom - http://www.benintelecoms.bj/?

As most of you know, many Nigerian scammers have now moved to the Republic of Benin where they are utilizing Benin Telecom servers to send out their scam e-mails. Benin Telecom, however, does not provide any Abuse/Spam reporting channel, and the ones that are listed in their Whois record all come back with a permanent error, like the ones here:

Can't help with contact information. But like most infected networks, the best You can do is block them, thus preventing any frauds from that network. What ip addresses are you experiencing problems with ? -- Peter Håkanson There's never money to do it right, but always money to do it again ... and again ... and again ... and again. ( Det är billigare att göra rätt. Det är dyrt att laga fel. )

Hi, try this from whois: agbaholou@benintelecoms.bj ######################################### # dig benintelecoms.bj MX ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> benintelecoms.bj MX ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33108 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;benintelecoms.bj. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: benintelecoms.bj. 86400 IN MX 10 webmail.benintelecoms.bj. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: webmail.benintelecoms.bj. 86400 IN A 81.91.225.6 ;; Query time: 423 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.66.254#53(192.168.66.254) ;; WHEN: Mon Oct 22 05:29:22 2012 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 74 ######################################### # telnet webmail.benintelecoms.bj 25 Trying 81.91.225.6... Connected to webmail.benintelecoms.bj. Escape character is '^]'. 220 webmail.benintelecoms.bj ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU) quit 221 2.0.0 Bye Connection closed by foreign host. ######################################### Reza Farzan wrote, On 10/21/2012 11:29 PM:

Hello All,

Does anyone know what is going on at Benin Telecom - http://www.benintelecoms.bj/?

As most of you know, many Nigerian scammers have now moved to the Republic of Benin where they are utilizing Benin Telecom servers to send out their scam e-mails. Benin Telecom, however, does not provide any Abuse/Spam reporting channel, and the ones that are listed in their Whois record all come back with a permanent error, like the ones here:

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This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

msah@benintelecoms.bj retry timeout exceeded aguidi@benintelecoms.bj retry timeout exceeded postmaster@benintelecoms.bj retry timeout exceeded abuse@benintelecoms.bj retry timeout exceeded aadjibola@benintelecoms.bj retry timeout exceeded

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I have contacted AfriNIC - (The African Network Information Centre), but they only send out automated messages.

Does anyone know how to contact Benin Telecom, and report Spam activities that are originated from their servers?

I appreciate any information that you could provide.

Thank you,

Reza Farzan