I first notified the Belgian authorites a week ago along with anyone I thought was remotely connected to his advertising scams.
My first point of contact was the Belgian Kiddie porn division asking to be directed to the correct Belgian authorities.
I was put in contact with the BCCU (Belgian Computer Crimes Unit) and they asked for any info that could link Jeroen Puttermans to the selling of player informantion and this would determine if a file could be opened on him locally or whether I would have to pursue it through the Australian Federal Police.
I provided headers, links and anything I could lay my hands on and this is currently under investigation and I have reason they will be able to act on it locally providing my information is sound…and I believe it is.
They have enough already to pin the trojans on him. 😎
Yes Dom, the attacks started from a simple post.
We soon realised he was serious and had to take prompt action with our isp and our server hosting company.
The atacks escalated fron the initial 10’s of 1000’s of bounced mails to near 100,000 on Thursday, completely crashing my mail programs and necessitating complete deletion of my inbox by my isp.
At the height of this attack I managed to divert the mail for a nine hour period straight back to Jeroen along with an auto reply detailing his personal info…I figure he got around 80,000 bounces to his various email addresses. This slowed him down for a few hours once he has sent the emails out there was no stopping the bouncing. The attack slowed and I re-diverted the mail to myself and went out for a few hours and returned to another 53,000 emails.
They are also initiating proceedings (my isp) as Jeroen included them as the reply to in the last batch of viagra spam spoofing our headers.
I have just returned from a few days away and have around 1200 spam which are probably the tail end of the last attack.
I figure he has a bulk list that is useless that he uses for this…he advertises as having over 7 million email addys and I am pretty confident he used at least a conservative million on our behalf.
Fergie, basically he got emails from profiles in boards for his attacks. The trojan virus is probably used to what is called sniff ports…find ways in which he can use innocent host computers as email relays and/or retrieve information such as account info etc.
Let’s face it he is not a happy camper and until the cuffs are on he will likely continue his little game. He uses several servers and of half a dozen abuse complaints to road runner it seems no action has been taken.
In circumstances like these I have infinite patience… If the authorities prove powerless to act in a reasonable amount of time (I figure 2-3 weeks to be “reasonable”) then it will have to get personal.
I would prefer if the above information stays right here, forewarned is forarmed.