With the new year the CAN-SPAM act became effective. And a few hours later we trap the first, relatively minor, CAN-SPAM act violation received from a US registered company. Perhaps they were unaware that this spam violates the CAN-SPAM act. More likely they know their chances of being prosecuted are about as good as one person winning the Powerball lottery 5 times in a row.

The normal junk promoting web sites hosted in China sent from compromised Windows machines continues to flow as expected.

Does not include 'a valid physical postal address of the sender'. Sec. 5 (a)(5)(A)(iii)
Sent to the postmaster role account. Probably violates Sec. 5 (b)(1)

These twits have been blasting postmaster accounts at every domain we host email for and many other email addresses for several days.
From cexdiwfues@treehousedns.biz Thu Jan  1 05:34:00 2004
Return-Path: <cexdiwfues@treehousedns.biz>
Received: from mxout-01.mxes.net (mxout-01.mxes.net [65.77.21.112])
        by exuma.irbs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB2C17409
        for <jc@irbs.com>; Thu,  1 Jan 2004 05:33:57 -0500 (EST)
Received: from mb22.treehousedns.biz (unknown [67.128.33.22])
        by mx1.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8EF32B90D
        for <postmaster@munged-domain.com>; Thu,  1 Jan 2004 05:33:43 -0500 (EST)
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:33:44 -0800
Message-Id: <200401010333.i013XeqK007920@mb22.treehousedns.biz>
From: cexdiwfues@mb22.treehousedns.biz
To: xogttzdzax@treehousedns.biz
Reply-To: grace@mb22.treehousedns.biz
Subject: ADV: Why Spend More Than You Have To?                                                   ceczi
X-Virus-Scanned: with Sophos
X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=24.9 threshold=5.0
X-Spam-Report:  Content analysis details:   (score = 24.9, score threshold = 5.0)
  0.2 NO_REAL_NAME           From: does not include a real name
  1.8 ADVERT_CODE            Subject: starts with advertising tag
  4.1 SUBJ_HAS_SPACES        Subject contains lots of white space
  1.9 REMOVE_REMOVAL_1WORD   BODY: List removal information
  1.0 EXCUSE_REMOVE          BODY: Talks about how to be removed from mailings
  5.4 BAYES_99               BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100%
  [score: 1.0000]
  0.1 NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP      URI: Uses a dotted-decimal IP address in URL
  0.5 REMOVE_PAGE            URI: URL of page called "remove"
  2.9 DCC_CHECK              Listed in DCC (http://rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/)
  0.7 DATE_IN_PAST_06_12     Date: is 6 to 12 hours before Received: date
  2.0 FROM_IN_MX_REJECT      Persistent Spam Sender MX restriction would have rejected this email
  2.7 SUBJ_HAS_UNIQ_ID       Subject contains a unique ID
  1.6 NO_DNS_FOR_FROM        Domain in From header has no MX or A DNS records
X-Spam-Check: Enabled
X-Spam-V2: Yes
X-Spam-Junkmail: Yes
X-Spam-Score: 24.9
X-Spam-Flag: Yes

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For low rates, visit http://61.56.84.218/insurance

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 To be removed from this and future mailings, go to http://64.25.32.11/removal/remove.htm

The registration info is probably bogus, Hollywood, CA address and a Washington state area code. The email was sent from IP space allocated to a Utah company. Last week they were sending from IP space allocated to a Nevada company.

Domain Name:                                 TREEHOUSEDNS.BIZ
Domain ID:                                   D5882606-BIZ
Sponsoring Registrar:                        DOTSTER
Domain Status:                               ok
Registrant ID:                               DOT-971081KRF7SD
Registrant Name:                             John Jones
Registrant Organization:                     Tree House Services
Registrant Address1:                         2370 hollywood ave suite 7
Registrant City:                             beverly hills
Registrant State/Province:                   california
Registrant Postal Code:                      90210
Registrant Country:                          United States
Registrant Country Code:                     US
Registrant Phone Number:                     +1.5097577771
Registrant Facsimile Number:                 +1.5097577771
Registrant Email:                            john_jones305@hotmail.com
Administrative Contact ID:                   DOT-RAS7YF8CUYL0
Administrative Contact Name:                 John Jones
Administrative Contact Organization:         Tree House Services
Administrative Contact Address1:             2370 hollywood ave suite 7
Administrative Contact City:                 beverly hills
Administrative Contact State/Province:       california
Administrative Contact Postal Code:          90210
Administrative Contact Country:              United States
Administrative Contact Country Code:         US
Administrative Contact Phone Number:         +1.5097577771
Administrative Contact Facsimile Number:     +1.5097577771
Administrative Contact Email:                john_jones305@hotmail.com
Billing Contact ID:                          DOT-MZIKNSPI8BK9
Billing Contact Name:                        John Jones
Billing Contact Organization:                Tree House Services
Billing Contact Address1:                    2370 hollywood ave suite 7
Billing Contact City:                        beverly hills
Billing Contact State/Province:              california
Billing Contact Postal Code:                 90210
Billing Contact Country:                     United States
Billing Contact Country Code:                US
Billing Contact Phone Number:                +1.5097577771
Billing Contact Facsimile Number:            +1.5097577771
Billing Contact Email:                       john_jones305@hotmail.com
Technical Contact ID:                        DOT-0OC89ADAZAT2
Technical Contact Name:                      John Jones
Technical Contact Organization:              Tree House Services
Technical Contact Address1:                  2370 hollywood ave suite 7
Technical Contact City:                      beverly hills
Technical Contact State/Province:            california
Technical Contact Postal Code:               90210
Technical Contact Country:                   United States
Technical Contact Country Code:              US
Technical Contact Phone Number:              +1.5097577771
Technical Contact Facsimile Number:          +1.5097577771
Technical Contact Email:                     john_jones305@hotmail.com
Name Server:                                 NS1.TREEHOUSEDNS.BIZ
Name Server:                                 NS2.TREEHOUSEDNS.BIZ
Created by Registrar:                        DOTSTER
Last Updated by Registrar:                   DOTSTER
Domain Registration Date:                    Tue Dec 16 01:34:26 GMT 2003
Domain Expiration Date:                      Wed Dec 15 23:59:59 GMT 2004
Domain Last Updated Date:                    Tue Dec 16 17:27:37 GMT 2003