Spam 'made in VN': SOS

Over the past days, we have received a lot of feedbacks about problems when sending email by email service provided by VDC (vnn.vn). Unexpectedly, by looking at 'the culprit' does not come from machines, network infrastructure . but because the huge amount of spam originated from Vietnam has made mail servers in the world . popular. angry!

Paralyzed because of being blacklisted

Mr. LVL - Deputy Director of a company in District 6, Ho Chi Minh City - pressing: since December 26, 2005, his company cannot use the mailbox …@hcm.vnn.vn to send letters to customers. in another country.

Calling 18001260, VDC said that the mail server vnn.vn is being blocked by the blocked countries because it is in the 'black list' list, not knowing when to fix it, the technical department is asking for management advice, customers are hard to switch to yahoo mail in the meantime.

Also according to Mr. L., from the day he could not send the mail to three days after he called, VDC had no notice to the users (mail users) about this incident, which made him very frustrated. The failure of the partner to respond to orders will cause damages to the company. His company decided to switch to using mail from another service provider.

Mr. Truong Hoai Trang, director of VDC 2, confirmed the situation and said there are two main reasons that Vietnam has dispersed too much spam and that Vietnamese ISPs have blocked any unregulated foreign mail server. Therefore, foreign servers also block mail from Vietnamese servers to retaliate.

Currently VDC is working with international spam mail organizations to negotiate, but in order to solve this problem, there must be coordination among many authorities such as ISP, VNNIC, police . In contact With spam mail organizations to bring Vietnam out of the black list list, VNNIC is the main responsible agency.

Not only VDC, Mr. Mai Sung, general director of FPT Telecom Joint Stock Company - said that sometimes the email server managed by FPT also falls into the list of black and blocked addresses, the company must contact directly with The provider of this list to take their names off will take several days.

Mr. LH Binh, director of a company specializing in hosting services at Quang Trung Software Park, revealed that most Vietnamese mail servers are being blocked by foreign mail servers. This is an inevitable consequence of blameless spamming.

Belong to the top 10 worst spam service providers

Will vnn.vn's fifth position in spam be concerned by managers?

Walking around on the Internet, viewers can easily see information about e-marketing services that mainly send ads into e-mail with ' low cost and high efficiency '.

' With only 500,000 VND you can own an email address list of over 1,000,000 email addresses of individuals and businesses, most of them from Vietnam. Accuracy rate more than 90%. Free professional email software included. . 'maybe any email user has once received this information.

At Spamhaus website, vnn.vn is ranked fifth in the top 10 ISPs providing spam services. While the whole world is actively fighting spam because it causes economic and mental damage, in Vietnam, those responsible seem to be too indifferent to this.

The current spamming services are quite thriving, not only businesses and individuals but also informatics newspapers using this technique to advertise. Some e-marketing service providers (or spamming on request) answered us that they know that spamming is a crime according to the laws of the countries in the world, but there is no thing in Vietnam. Which laws, specific rules prohibit this behavior, so they take advantage of that opportunity.

One of ten outstanding events in 2005 in the field of IT was the introduction of the Electronic Transaction Law. But e-commerce can flourish not so long ago when commercial websites banned transactions from IP VN because Vietnamese people often use credit cards 'temples' to buy goods, and now, one The most common means of transaction is email, which is in danger of not reaching the recipient?

According to our subjective assessment, email addresses with 'tails' are strictly 'class' and are often used by organizations when there is no separate mail server. Will vnn.vn's fifth position in spam be concerned by managers?