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Contact form abuse
24-06-2008 4:53 PM
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I run a website for a club I belong to, and today received from our contact form a number of slightly abusive messages aimed at one of our junior members. I will talk to the person concerned, because it might just be his mates having a laugh. If it turns out to be anything more serious I will consider taking it further.
The question for you lot is that the contact form (hosted by www.emailmeform.com) returns an IP address for the sender of the message. I ran a whois, expecting a reference to an ISP, and it comes up with the following. Clearly this is not the IP address of some local troublemaker. Can anyone explain why this address appears?
OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgID: IANA
Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
City: Marina del Rey
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 90292-6695
Country: US
NetRange: 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
CIDR: 10.0.0.0/8
NetName: RESERVED-10
NetHandle: NET-10-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: IANA Special Use
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG
Comment: This block is reserved for special purposes.
Comment: Please see RFC 1918 for additional information:
Comment: http://www.arin.net/reference/rfc/rfc1918.txt
RegDate:
Updated: 2007-11-27
OrgAbuseHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgAbusePhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@iana.org
OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgTechPhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgTechEmail: abuse@iana.org
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2008-06-23 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
The question for you lot is that the contact form (hosted by www.emailmeform.com) returns an IP address for the sender of the message. I ran a whois, expecting a reference to an ISP, and it comes up with the following. Clearly this is not the IP address of some local troublemaker. Can anyone explain why this address appears?
OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgID: IANA
Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
City: Marina del Rey
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 90292-6695
Country: US
NetRange: 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
CIDR: 10.0.0.0/8
NetName: RESERVED-10
NetHandle: NET-10-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: IANA Special Use
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG
Comment: This block is reserved for special purposes.
Comment: Please see RFC 1918 for additional information:
Comment: http://www.arin.net/reference/rfc/rfc1918.txt
RegDate:
Updated: 2007-11-27
OrgAbuseHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgAbusePhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@iana.org
OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgTechPhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgTechEmail: abuse@iana.org
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2008-06-23 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
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Re: Contact form abuse
24-06-2008 5:02 PM
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You've done a lookup of an internal IP address i.e 10.0.0.x. You will get the same report if you do a lookup on 192.168.x which is the other range of IP addresses used by routers.
Re: Contact form abuse
24-06-2008 5:43 PM
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Below is an example of an email trace. The first IP address of 10.0.0.12 is off the PC that sent it to a local mail server at 81.149.196.232 which is a BT allocated static IP. So it will be here that for any abuse action will have to start.
Re: Contact form abuse
25-06-2008 1:20 PM
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Hmm, so the emailmeform site is only telling me the local IP address of the sender's PC. Not very helpful. It is likely this originated from a school network, so the local IP address might still be useful. The email trace won't help, as far as I can see, as it came from emailmeform, not from the message sender.
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