Is kornet.net Safe?

Korea Telecom / kornet.net continuously sustains IP addresses rated up to "critical" amounts of spam during a 30 day period. ***** (bottom of page) OLD, NOT CURRENTLY APPLICABLE NOTE: April 2012, kornet.net is running the network for ***** / Korea Information Certificate Authority Inc . See: ***** ***** ***** April 2012, Korea Information Certificate Authority Inc is the registrar of spammed domains of which 50% continue to be used in spam operations with the same registrar. See: ***** ***** (the unsatisfactory reputation of Korea Information Certificate Authority Inc / domainca.com)

This ISP routinely rejects spam complaints (bounces them back, claiming the complaints are spam) and is the source of so much spam and questionable activity that I must seriously ask if this company is operating legally or not. Here is one sample, from the header: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: abuse(at)kornet.net Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.3.2 Rejected by mailbox host. REPLY:(554 Transaction failed. Can not forward because of this mail is spam) (state 17) Additionally, for their paying customers, their spam filters are mostly useless in keeping spam out. Even North Koreans could do a better job with security than this.

Spam originating from Korea (kornet.net 14.63.225.212) From: Eng Al-fares Hafiz Raheem <root@proftp.com> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:43 AM Subject: MESSAGE FOR YOU. Attn; How are you today?,Why i contacted you is I want if you can tell me more about good investment in your country so that i could relocate my investment planning to your beautiful country, out of Syria, Now that Syria security and our Economic independent as be lost to the greatest lower level, and our culture has been lost forever and our happiness has been taken away from us, i will like to relocate my family out from Syria to a better place I will believe whatever you may brief me about any good ways, to invest my fund properly, It will be highly recommended. Tell me more about your country how good it will be to invest in your country Cities, Such as buying of properties houses, Building real estate and some tourist places. Regards, Eng Al-fares Hafiz Raheem Al Furat Petroleum Company ***** " 0 0 link to t

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