No, its just SORBS, thay havnt got a clue. Avoid with long bargepole.... Tony. ________________________________ From: owner-or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Karsten N. Sent: Fri 27/04/2007 09:03 To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Tor nodes blocked by e-gold Hi, I have checked a few long-runnig TOR nodes in the Sorbs SPAM blacklist: http://www.au.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml Many of this servers are blacklisted in the database of vulnerable/hacked servers: "Likely Trojaned Machine, host running unknown trojan" The nodes I checked are mostly well administrated and run actually software over a time of 1 year. It may be, they are listed in other SPAM blacklists too. Karsten N. force44@xxxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb: > Hi, > > Since 24 hours, e-gold has decided to block all TOR nodes, and not only. In fact they check 3 "spam databases" and if the user's IP is in one of them, e-gold just declines any operation, people cannot even login into their accounts. > > There are a few things here: > > It is the first time I see a website blocking IP that appear in SPAM databases! Spam is, as far as I know, an EMAIL problem, so why would a domain block surfing from these IP? > > About TOR particularly, I feel very strange that all exit nodes would be listed in spam databases, as most of them (if not all) don't accept sending mail requests. That is why I rather believe that e-gold in fact fetches the TOR exit nodes list, and directly block their IP addresses. > > A friend, connecting from his home in Germany without TOR, without any proxy, cannot enter his account as his IP address (a dynamic one from a dialup provider) was listed 2 months ago for spam!!! > > A few people are already complaining that they cannot get into their accounts, and so their money seems to be lost! E-gold was already known to block accounts without any warning and explanations, recently blocked accounts of all Iranian people and KEPT their funds, now they automatize the scam process! > > E-gold seems to be the next (or TODAY'S) major scam of the internet! > > F44 >
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