Over the last few days we’ve had an increase in the amount of spams, specifically nigerian style scam emails, being sent out to people. Most of the emails were sent from accounts starting with john774416@ or eagertobuy@. The perpetrators found an unshielded server farm in Chicago, where they were signing up accounts.

For those still not familiar with it, wikipedia has a piece on the scams. According to wikipedia this sort of scam has become Nigeria’s major export to replace their oil industry.

I booted several accounts that had been used to send spam or were signed up from the same source and then I blocked off the Chicago server farm from accessing our site.

Thanks,
Chris