5 Days after this post, and some direct follow ups with Crystone.se, no more spam was received.
20 days (19 Dec 2013) later crystone.se was seen to have vanished from the Spamhaus ISP bad boys list.
Thank you Crystone.se for the change in direction, Keep up the good work.
THIS POST IS OVER 10 YEARS OLD NOW Name now blanked out - statue of limitations - and they did get the problem fixed.
==================== ******** =================
In Reverse from the top ..
M* K* is CEO of Crystone AB (Sweden) Sends spam. Source Linked-in.
Crystone.se hosts spammers website and domains
Source
Multiple Traceroutes to adriute.com and multiple other spammer domains
Email and embedded link direct to domain adriute.com.
Source - My mail box
Luckily most of these emails are correctly recognised as junk mail, probably using internet based blacklists.
The well respected Spamhaus Agrees with this conclusion. Getting to number three on the worst ISPs in the world list does not happen overnight, that's a policy choice by Crystone. Either the CEO is in on the deal or is incompetent by not knowing how his company's reputation and therefore shareholder value is being trashed.
This particular operation is known as a "Snowshoe Spam" operation spreading out the evil across a large number of domains and IP address. Other ref. A bit dumb/obvious to use the same hosting company.
And adriute.com is not the only domain with the same infrastructure leading directly back to crystone.se. List of bad poison spam domains:
In Reverse from the top ..
M* K* is CEO of Crystone AB (Sweden) Sends spam. Source Linked-in.
Crystone.se hosts spammers website and domains
Source
Multiple Traceroutes to adriute.com and multiple other spammer domains
gannett$ traceroute adriute.com
traceroute to adriute.com (193.182.254.192), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 skyrouter.home (192.168.0.1) 1.544 ms 1.340 ms 0.871 ms
2 * * *
3 ip-84-38-37-16.easynet.co.uk (84.38.37.16) 21.820 ms 21.911 ms 22.029 ms
4 ti9002b300.ti.telenor.net (195.66.237.107) 20.723 ms 20.606 ms 21.009 ms
5 ti3003c400-ae3-0.ti.telenor.net (146.172.105.37) 62.745 ms 63.474 ms 62.462 ms
6 ti3002c400-ae2-0.ti.telenor.net (146.172.100.69) 62.495 ms 62.093 ms 62.579 ms
7 ti3002d400-ae0-0.ti.telenor.net (146.172.102.186) 62.145 ms 62.389 ms 62.576 ms
8 ti3083a210-xe8-1.ti.telenor.net (146.172.107.206) 238.273 ms 170.280 ms 205.565 ms
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 60.298 ms 59.874 ms 59.797 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.240 ms 55.152 ms 55.127 ms
11 www.adriute.com (193.182.254.192) 54.996 ms !Z 54.934 ms !Z 54.741 ms !Z
Email and embedded link direct to domain adriute.com.
Source - My mail box
This is just one of many similarly formed emails sent to the same private address from various domains hosted in the same way. Each one of these email comes from a different domain on the list below.
Luckily most of these emails are correctly recognised as junk mail, probably using internet based blacklists.
The well respected Spamhaus Agrees with this conclusion. Getting to number three on the worst ISPs in the world list does not happen overnight, that's a policy choice by Crystone. Either the CEO is in on the deal or is incompetent by not knowing how his company's reputation and therefore shareholder value is being trashed.
And adriute.com is not the only domain with the same infrastructure leading directly back to crystone.se. List of bad poison spam domains:
xsmwkj.com
tmdti.com
livspan.com
jizbell.com
myilt.com
prkco.com
poszg.com
aemgt.com
urlpp.com
siinco.com
wzztq.com
ndzstzw.com
adfilmz.com
pzjdl.com
erqjgz.com
ctdserv.com
siinco.com
germanyideal.com
clickbebo.com
dealzez.com
tmacsdeal.com
tuclicka.net
marrge.com
laurabs.com
padilladeals.com
gozumuz.com
freesouzi.com
ctdserv.com
freeschin.com
cqrcity.com
gamezonefree.net
readtreefree.com
oyoob.com
ndzstzw.com
adriute.com
dommc.com
# The last couple of lines of trace routes to each of the domains above. See how the hop before the domain is se.crystone.net.
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.938 ms 59.773 ms 60.001 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 55.242 ms 54.538 ms 54.193 ms
11 www.xsmwkj.com (192.36.142.156) 54.893 ms !Z 54.927 ms !Z 54.714 ms !Z
--
--
5 195.66.224.243 (195.66.224.243) 19.762 ms 19.656 ms 18.724 ms
6 crystone-hy-demarc0.cr1-r85.hy-sto.se.p80.net (83.140.244.62) 52.234 ms 52.283 ms 53.344 ms
7 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 52.373 ms 52.808 ms 52.737 ms
8 www.iyaadura.com (83.168.194.20) 52.663 ms !Z 52.856 ms !Z 52.392 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 60.007 ms 59.859 ms 59.779 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.284 ms 54.230 ms 54.971 ms
11 www.livspan.com (192.165.239.156) 54.994 ms !Z 54.860 ms !Z 55.214 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.737 ms 60.418 ms 60.507 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.324 ms 54.005 ms 54.594 ms
11 www.jizbell.com (192.165.241.236) 54.521 ms !Z 55.583 ms !Z 57.872 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.289 ms 59.946 ms 59.709 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.509 ms 54.840 ms 55.578 ms
11 www.myilt.com (192.176.207.195) 55.279 ms !Z 55.214 ms !Z 54.608 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.549 ms 59.600 ms 59.348 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 55.192 ms 54.132 ms 54.476 ms
11 www.prkco.com (193.180.252.202) 59.890 ms !Z 59.208 ms !Z 59.736 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.416 ms 59.694 ms 59.120 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.472 ms 54.137 ms 54.049 ms
11 www.poszg.com (192.71.169.205) 59.239 ms !Z 59.896 ms !Z 59.981 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.867 ms 60.153 ms 61.110 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.518 ms 54.594 ms 54.633 ms
11 www.aemgt.com (194.14.131.149) 54.495 ms !Z 54.621 ms !Z 55.185 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 58.929 ms 59.151 ms 59.249 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.759 ms 54.167 ms 54.162 ms
11 www.urlpp.com (192.176.207.194) 59.663 ms !Z 58.709 ms !Z 60.622 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.348 ms 59.144 ms 59.879 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 55.513 ms 55.052 ms 54.716 ms
11 www.siinco.com (192.36.6.139) 54.996 ms !Z 54.822 ms !Z 55.087 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.526 ms 59.423 ms 59.946 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.846 ms 54.218 ms 54.200 ms
11 www.wzztq.com (192.36.255.147) 59.913 ms !Z 59.531 ms !Z 59.834 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.765 ms 59.880 ms 59.692 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.548 ms 53.978 ms 54.033 ms
11 www.ndzstzw.com (192.36.0.158) 55.119 ms !Z 54.192 ms !Z 54.453 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 60.320 ms 59.976 ms 59.273 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.609 ms 54.403 ms 54.521 ms
11 www.adfilmz.com (192.165.1.207) 59.666 ms !Z 59.363 ms !Z 58.671 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.843 ms 59.128 ms 59.969 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 55.130 ms 54.133 ms 54.898 ms
11 www.pzjdl.com (193.182.146.177) 60.026 ms !Z 60.110 ms !Z 59.340 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.487 ms 60.069 ms 59.261 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 53.990 ms 54.784 ms 54.338 ms
11 www.erqjgz.com (193.235.158.152) 59.536 ms !Z 58.948 ms !Z 59.653 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.462 ms 58.891 ms 59.351 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.876 ms 53.835 ms 54.425 ms
11 www.ctdserv.com (193.180.122.181) 59.695 ms !Z 59.643 ms !Z 59.426 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.308 ms 59.587 ms 60.403 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 55.489 ms 55.207 ms 55.422 ms
11 www.siinco.com (192.36.6.139) 54.374 ms !Z 54.569 ms !Z 55.574 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.575 ms 60.202 ms 59.797 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.263 ms 54.152 ms 54.277 ms
11 www.germanyideal.com (193.182.118.131) 54.833 ms !Z 55.190 ms !Z 54.726 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.159 ms 59.682 ms 59.919 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 56.716 ms 54.940 ms 54.636 ms
11 www.clickbebo.com (193.234.239.143) 54.824 ms !Z 54.038 ms !Z 54.226 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.317 ms 59.761 ms 60.198 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.759 ms 54.642 ms 54.522 ms
11 www.dealzez.com (193.180.12.35) 55.268 ms !Z 55.842 ms !Z 54.634 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.464 ms 59.471 ms 59.698 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 55.286 ms 54.641 ms 54.965 ms
11 www.tmacsdeal.com (192.36.205.28) 54.647 ms !Z 54.832 ms !Z 54.307 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.997 ms 59.215 ms 59.942 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 55.138 ms 55.422 ms 54.875 ms
11 www.tuclicka.net (64.88.144.13) 60.363 ms !Z 59.824 ms !Z 59.515 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 95.477 ms 59.686 ms 60.840 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.989 ms 56.219 ms 54.925 ms
11 www.marrge.com (193.181.3.199) 55.003 ms !Z 54.725 ms !Z 54.784 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.504 ms 59.530 ms 59.129 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.260 ms 54.725 ms 55.408 ms
11 www.laurabs.com (193.235.96.178) 55.966 ms !Z 55.302 ms !Z 55.169 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 74.485 ms 59.173 ms 59.911 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.884 ms 62.431 ms 55.052 ms
11 www.padilladeals.com (64.88.140.14) 59.455 ms !Z 59.988 ms !Z 60.061 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.760 ms 59.477 ms 59.664 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.079 ms 55.013 ms 54.857 ms
11 www.gozumuz.com (193.182.163.129) 55.060 ms !Z 54.918 ms !Z 55.155 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.739 ms 59.915 ms 59.895 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.929 ms 54.641 ms 55.545 ms
11 www.freesouzi.com (209.152.170.14) 54.135 ms !Z 55.157 ms !Z 54.617 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.202 ms 59.153 ms 59.642 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.748 ms 53.843 ms 54.696 ms
11 www.ctdserv.com (193.180.122.181) 60.132 ms !Z 63.625 ms !Z 59.352 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.564 ms 59.489 ms 60.529 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.821 ms 55.380 ms 56.989 ms
11 www.freeschin.com (193.181.3.22) 59.340 ms !Z 59.794 ms !Z 59.790 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.004 ms 58.898 ms 58.860 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 55.750 ms 54.899 ms 54.764 ms
11 www.cqrcity.com (194.71.187.152) 59.678 ms !Z 60.438 ms !Z 59.383 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.361 ms 60.035 ms 59.802 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.947 ms 54.457 ms 54.142 ms
11 www.gamezonefree.net (209.152.161.14) 54.779 ms !Z 54.408 ms !Z 54.975 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.584 ms 59.536 ms 60.145 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.730 ms 54.272 ms 54.727 ms
11 www.readtreefree.com (192.165.34.72) 54.514 ms !Z 54.784 ms !Z 54.688 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.448 ms 60.417 ms 60.366 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.812 ms 54.940 ms 55.151 ms
11 www.oyoob.com (193.235.96.179) 59.646 ms !Z 58.652 ms !Z 59.216 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.437 ms 59.358 ms 58.978 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.739 ms 54.528 ms 54.172 ms
11 www.ndzstzw.com (192.36.0.158) 55.046 ms !Z 54.264 ms !Z 54.444 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.859 ms 59.425 ms 59.671 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.291 ms 54.262 ms 55.050 ms
11 www.adriute.com (193.182.254.192) 54.756 ms !Z 54.268 ms !Z 54.133 ms !Z
--
--
9 static-213-115-123-44.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se (213.115.123.44) 59.812 ms 59.230 ms 62.396 ms
10 dr-8.hy-sth.se.crystone.net (83.168.243.156) 54.874 ms 54.886 ms 54.733 ms
11 www.dommc.com (192.165.53.200) 59.172 ms !Z 59.079 ms !Z 59.369 ms !Z
