XMPP Service Operators - 2017-11-25

so now the spam bots are inviting me in their rosters

edhelas, they've been doing that to me for a while now

edhelas: they first send a request and then a spam message ✏

I haven't actually had that

My last request was from money987@im.digital-bit.ch - what an awesome domain name.

I got administrator272@jabber.net-lab.net earlier, definitely setups coming from a template.

yeah, it's all IBR servers

MattJ: help please? :D

user(number)@(jabber|im).word-word.ext

here's another one: digital.advert272@propanatrx.com

and euro687@propanatrx.com

I'm pretty sure they are just abusing IBR servers, not registering domains for XMPP

I'm wondering if they're spinning up servers on domains they've already got

I doubt they're only in one line of business

Yes they are, we’ve deleted a ton of such accounts already.

mike, why deploy servers yourself when there are admins who don’t monitor their server at all?

Ge0rG, what do you need?

Oh, just saw xsf@

FROM: <<%a+%d%d%d>>@<*>

iirc

Some user called something1977 couldn’t create an account with that.

(Legitimate user.)

Right now legitimate users can't send Ge0rG multi-line cyrillic messages either :)

It's all guesswork, there's no hard rules to find here

Yeah.

and yes, blocking all such accounts seems too far to me

MattJ: I need a way to remove the pending subscription request from a spammer. We talked about it some months ago

MattJ: I'd really like to have a rule along the lines of "if (spammer and pending subscription) then retract subscription"