[anti-abuse-wg] Benin Telecom - http://www.benintelecoms.bj/

Mon Oct 22 05:33:32 CEST 2012

Hi,
try this from whois:
   agbaholou at benintelecoms.bj

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# 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

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# 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.

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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:
>
> ============
>
> This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>
>    msah at benintelecoms.bj
>      retry timeout exceeded
>    aguidi at benintelecoms.bj
>      retry timeout exceeded
>    postmaster at benintelecoms.bj
>      retry timeout exceeded
>    abuse at benintelecoms.bj
>      retry timeout exceeded
>    aadjibola at benintelecoms.bj
>      retry timeout exceeded
>
>
> ============
>
>
> 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
>
>