Spamhaus
Reviews and Complaints

Spamhaus agents a.k.a Level 1 support are unprofessional when comes to responding on ticket threads.

They tend and intentionally disrespects inquires which they thought they're smart enough to answer just to show how "competent" they are.

Spamhaus is actively blocking, in real-time, ALL my outgoing emails to my business clients for no other apparent reason (as given by the company's website) than a number of false suppositions.
In so doing I am being prevented from conducting my legitimate business.
Spamhaus are unapproachable, all messages that I have tried to send to them on their website have gone unanswered. Their website claims that they cannot provide contact details (phone or email) because of the 'International' nature of their business. My reply to that is B******t!

Our IPs were blacklisted by SpamHaus and when we asked our upstream provider who owns the IPs, they refereed us to a Mike Anderson at SpamHaus to discuss why they got listed.

I have no idea how such a company who hides behind various made up corporations hiding their money over seas has so much power and yet so rude to tell us they are not responsible for any wrong doing. Mike Anderson is a complete A-hole and told us he is a senior editor at SpamHaus among he can do whatever he wants because they are untouchable.

We have already filed with the FBI and local police to show them there was no emailing activity on our IPs and after providing all the evidence to Mr. Mike Anderson who actually lives in South Carolina (SpamHaus claims to be operating in UK) at a age of 60 with his Mommy has completely ruined our company.

Please find his info below and make sure to file with your local police as well:

https://complaint.ic3.gov/default.aspx?
https://ftccomplaintassistant.gov/Information#crnt&panel1-1

Spamhaus is blocking my web site. When trying to get it unblocked, they send me to this website on the screenshot attached. In addition, their link to the stinger is invalid:
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You have either an open proxy, a virus, a trojan spam-sender or some other sort of security compromise which is causing your IP to be relisted. Always ensure that viruses, trojans and open proxies are removed or secured before trying to delist your IP.
If you run a Microsoft Windows based system, you should download a copy of stinger for Windows from www.nai.com, and fix anything it finds. See "Removing trojans/viruses from your system" in this FAQ for further information. More tools for checking if your PC may be infected are at http://www.mynetwatchman.com/tools/sc/

If after checking your PC for viruses/trojans/worms you are still unable to find the problem, contact the CBL team (see the CBL website http://www.abuseat.org/ for the correct email address).
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Their site itself is riddled with malware and links that don't work. It is a sham!

[protected]@onasco.com
Bob Bohannon

Hi there,

Spamhaus lists our server's Public IP in your blacklist with explanation that our IP appears in CBL as shown in screenshot below:

https://prnt.sc/kj5csa

Following the reported link, I see our Public IP is NOT listed in at least the past 28 days on CBL and hence there's not option to make removal request as shown in screenshot below:

https://prnt.sc/kj5cxl

Now we're getting into trouble in sending email because of this while we're actually NOT listed. We hope Spamhaus will take a look at this and help us to sort this problem out.

Many thanks.

Rob Pike aka Rob Shcultz http://herpolhode.com/rob/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_DpYBzKso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4iVAcYyWN0 Married to: Renée French www.reneefrench.com Work: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 Tel: [protected] email: [protected]@google.com Home: 1003 Fremonth St. Menlo Park, CA 94025 Tel: [protected] Tweet Handel: @Rob_Pike Robert Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian software engineer and author. He is best known for his work at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming language. Obtained from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike Early 2000 before Spamhaus became recognized, Rob Pike used his Name to address listings.Today he has hidden his profile due to death threats under Rob Shcultz. Rob Pike (ask Rob Shcultz) is using his power @Google and their massive data base of users to spy on ISPs and people without their permission to list their information on SpamHaus’ database and thereby listing their names and IP information to the public and forcing the upstream to terminate them. Do you think Google would allow their employee to force companies to terminate a business using private information considering their long term issues with privacy laws? ISPs must follow the guidelines and to elaborate on this Guidelines and Policy. Here is a Scenario (A small Business Would Do: Jane sets up a Booth at a Tradeshow, Jane has a Tablet and asks visitors to fill out the form so she can email them with sales and Promotional emails every week. Also there is a check box for (Receive additional Related Products from Other Vendors) NOTE: You can unsubscribe anytime you like and the link is at the bottom of all emails that are sent. Jane collects 200, 000 email addresses and sends out promotional and as well as shared her contact list with her friend Joe. Joe also sends out emails and it’s all similar. They make money, everyone is happy. People unsubscribe, no issues to report. (This is NOT allowed by Spamhaus and should be terminated) Spamhaus has a policy to Double OPT in all subscribers. If this is not done, it’s now allowed. If you do not Follow, you will get an SBL, if the account is NOT terminated in a reasonable amount of time or corrected, it will be escalated to next level. So a /29 becomes a /24, if that is ignored that becomes a /20. If an IP gets an SBL and it has NO impact on the Customer because they email Gmail or AOL which has no effect by Spamhaus SBL listing. ISP Should be able to email Spamhaus and say please leave the SBL listing in Place. (So Spamhaus should be happy it’s filtered and the world is safe from spam) NOPE this is NOT the case either. Spamhaus Policy is the Customer has to be terminated regardless of decision to keep the customer. How does Spamhaus have the ability to force any business on the planet to terminate a customer on a say so? Do Companies know that they can do this? Forcing the hand to terminate customers by playing Mafia tactics has to have some protection by some Law Somewhere. They can even force you to terminate ANY customer they feel is not to their standards, No exceptions and No Protection. Follow no Rules, No Law and call it the Spamhaus way? Here is a typical email from Rob Pike aka Rob Shcultz: “Based on our data, we do not believe this IP range will be used for legitimate services, so it will remain listed on the SBL advisory in order to protect our users.” Spamhaus comes back with it was not SBL’d because of the complaints. It was listed because it was clear they were mailing and not by their policy. If a company does NOT follow Spamhaus guidelines, nothing anyone can do about it. Has anyone else had this issue with SpamHaus? We are in the process of filing a lawsuit as many have done in the past against SpamHaus, Rob Pike aka Rob Shcultz (CA resident), Steve Lindford and Google for listing our ISP which has been blacklisted for NO reason whatsoever!

Our customers are not able to access Member Area where they can find registration keys for ordered software. Some of our websites and services are not available or work in improper way as well since we are listed on the Spamhaus Block List (SBL) (Spamhaus' list of spammers) and our IP is being blocked. Our record in the SBL is SBL68915 (89.208.32.0/24).

Fact: Spamhaus and have added innocent IP blocks to their blacklists. Steve Linford extortionist.

The anti-spammer extotion goes like this: "Anyone who gets service from a network friendly to spammers is supporting the spammers and therefore our enemy." (The friend of my enemy is my enemy too?)

So here's how this goes. Once a network provider is branded "a communist"...er excuse me..."a spammer", ALL of their ranges are blocked. Typically a network provider is providing services for smaller service providers, many of whom would never and have never engaged in spamming of any kind. No notice is really given on these blacklisting events, rather you find out when mail starts bouncing to some destination. Usually an end customer is the first to notice, and that customers is directed by the bounce to complain to...their own internet server provider!

In essence, the customer is tricked into presenting the terrorist anti-spam agenda.The ISP turns around and finds out that -their- provider (or provider's provider) is what the anti-spam zealots want "silenced". Until that target complies with their arbitrary agenda (usually of the form "stop spamming", but this is not always true...see below), everyone else has to suffer with electronic mail blocks.

What's wrong with this? Everything.

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First and foremost, the most often heard reason anti-spammers are so rabid about anti-spam is "it makes electronic mail unusable for average people". If this is true, then how does blocking innocent email help this situation? In fact, blacklisting innocents contributes to the problem. The hypocrisy here is so thick I doubt even a knife can cut it.
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The dishonor of the practice of blacklists is amazing. Many naive internet mail administrators add blacklists like spamhaus "because they work to reduce spam". Lots of these sites have no idea that they are being cut off from legitimate email because of these machinations. If their customers really knew that they were cutoff, I wonder how many would still buy service? Getting rid of spam is one thing, blocking that key business email that means $100K in sales is quite another.

Lets take this one step further. Person A buys email service from ISP X who is using Spamhaus to block spam email. Person A's daughter, who's income is very low due to being a student in college, buys email service from ISP Y (because it's cheap) who uses IAP S as their connectivity. ISP Y buys network from IAP S because it's cheap. Due to real life constraints, the only contact Person A has with their daughter is email.

IAP S suddenly gets put on the anti-spam master blacklist. The same day, Person A's daughter has a car accident. A roommate desperately tries to send email to Person A but it's blocked. Worse, it's blocked because these zealots have an idealogical cause which is set up to be more important than a person's life. This is the height of dishonor.
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The practice is quite criminal by many definitions and with criminals on all sides:
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Any ISP that is blocked is told to "comply with our demands or be blacklisted" (a.k.a. extortion).
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Attacking innocents in the name of their cause (a.k.a. terrorism).
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Since the control of the blacklist is out of the hands of the service provider who subscribes to it, by law you must clearly state "random people may be blocked to your email box by other people who are not under our control" before selling "email services". I've never seen this stated on any ISP ad. (a.k.a false advertising)
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Blacklisting ISPs is a good way of knocking them out of business (a.k.a restraint of trade)
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If spam ever goes away, these organizations will also. Thus they have a vested interest in keeping spam alive (a.k.a playing both sides of the street)

Do note that the anti-spammers claim these practices are not criminal and will "reduce economic support for the 'spam friendly' ISPs". This claim is quite erroneous:

Fact: Spammer companies have far more money than most innocents.

Yep, to the tune of millions of dollars per month. SPAM is big business. Do you think that the income of one little ISP with 1000 customers is going to make any difference against the large income of a spam company? No! All that does is clear more bandwidth for the spammers to use, should the little ISP cave in and switch to another provider.

While there's no proof (that I'm aware of), it's not so far fetched to open up questions of collusion between "the providers that are anti-spam" and the "anti-spam blacklists". Certain providers, to compete, may pay the blacklist groups lots of money to keep attacking innocents, which gets them more customers in the long run as ISPs fold because they cant afford the connectivity provided by the "anti-spam supporter" providers.

I've established some things here:

1. In my opinion, blacklists are bad.
2. The anti-spammers are resorting to clearly criminal activities to further their goals: extortion, restraint-of-trade and, terrorism. If he likes terror, not me as I am a nice person who wouldn't hurt a fly, but i'm sure that their are people out their that would like to show him what terror is all about.

UK is now involved with the fraudulent activities below, and are in the jurisdiction to be both criminally and monetary means.

Please contact us at http://www.sfo.gov.uk/contact.asp

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SPAMHAUS.ORG FRAUD
Steve Linford Spamhaus Fraud

Your Internet provider is probably blocking and censoring your incoming emails. Call, email or write your Internet Provider and "demand" that they do not block your incoming emails using the Spamhaus blacklist. Inform them they will be responsible for any losses you incur as a result of emails you do not receive.
The same blacklist Spamhaus charges up to $5000 for is freely available at http://cbl.abuseat.org/

SPAMHAUS is operated by this deviant criminal. He founded it. He came up with the name. He runs it and he uses Steve Linford as a front so he will not have lawsuits filed against him in the USA. The UK has now become involved.

John Blasik A.K.A John Reid A.k.A Richard Cox
John Blasik A.K.A Spamhaus and long time member of the KKK REALM OF FLORIDA
Domestic Violence, Trespassing, battery, 'Exposure of Sexual Organs', Indecency with a Child by Exposure
numerous traffic violations, etc.

F.A.Qs

1. The same blacklist Spamhaus charges up to $5000 for is freely available at http://cbl.abuseat.org/

2. Spamhaus blacklist blocks more legitimate mail than spam.

3. Spamhaus uses blackmail tactics to achieve their goal of having hosts pay for their list.

4. Spamhaus has become a Spews clone and is completely militant and out of control.

5. Spamhaus grabs listings from other blacklists in an effort to gain more profits by having a bigger list.

6. Spamhaus blacklist usage is on the decline and with your help we can keep it going down

What Can I do?

Please contact us at http://www.sfo.gov.uk/contact.asp

2.If in the USA, write to your congressman and your ISP and tell them that you do not want your email blocked. there is no telling how much legitimate mail You are not receiving as a result of this. and if they have to block emails then use one of the free Open source lists that are not used along with blackmail tactics and operated by a deviant criminal.
Spamhaus closes any site they want when they want. this is illegal

New York times quote
Spamhaus gang buying a Moving to a 70 foot yacht?

Spamhaus plans to move to a 70-foot yacht that will travel, cove to cove, across the
Adriatic

I am sure Spamhaus supporters are interested to hear what is done with the money they donate.
Spamhaus is blacklisting and threatening any host that hosts any site that they wish.

Again, please contact: http://www.sfo.gov.uk/contact.asp

RCN, RCN web hosting supports Criminal Company Spamhaus. This information stated in this forum post is my opinion and will contain facts to support any claims made against parties within.

DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH RCN (THEY ARE UNETHICAL)

Press release coming soon! "Public Company RCN Supports Criminal Organization"

RCN web hosting shut my server down and discontinued my service after doing business with them for over 1 year. The stated that I was in violation of the AUP (Accepted Use Policies) because I am listed by this criminal organization spamhaus project.

RCN, RCN Web Hosting has joined the list of hosting companies using spamhuas.org. A criminal organization located in the UK. Earlier this year spamhuas was ordered by a US court to turn over their domain. Spamhaus to avoid being ordered to pay an 11.7 million dollar judment against e360 insight.

RCN (RCN.com) has alligned themselves with this criminal organization.

http://www.spamhaus.org/aups.html

RCN supports criminal organization spamhaus. Spamhaus Project in on the run from US federal Courts.

The board of directors for RCN supporting terrorist organization spamhaus project.

James F. Mooney
Peter D. Aquino
Benjamin C. Duster , IV
Lee S. Hillman
Michael E. Katzenstein
Theodore H. Schell
Daniel Tseung

RCN Hosting supports vigilante company spamhaus. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS ORGANIZATION.

RCN Corporate Governance. Looks like the board of directors dropped the ball on this one. RCN supports an organization that is on the run from US federal courts. What kind of ethical behavior is this?