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Has anyone else seen a HUGE rise in the number of hosts being listed in UCEPROTECT uceprotect[.]net blacklist? I've had hosts in the last few months on a variety of major cloud providers that don't send email at all and are listed in this extortion like 'blacklist.' When I review the rest of the network block(s) it seems UCEPROTECT has simply listed the whole network indiscriminately.

Making matters worse they don't have a fair policy for removal. They require you PAY to get removed, even though you never sent a single spam message. Worse yet, payment is continual and not a one time thing. So even if you never sent spam this 'service' wants ongoing payment. Seems like an extortion scam less than a 'blacklist' service.

Anyone else seen this malarkey?

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Yep. A complete scam. Do NOT send them any money. Just purchase a non-blacklisted IP and you're good. If you send them money for their "whitelisting service" you're supporting them to extort innocent people.

And if you run an email service, please do not include them in the spam filter

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Recently they are changing policy to be more strict.. including not only spammer IP, but including port-scanner and hacking attempt.. (which is absurd to me)

many ISP's ASN (if not all) in my country get blocked causing headache to mail admin and ISP.. their "extortion-like" method to delist is not welcome at all..

some recent reading: https://blog.sucuri.net/2021/02/uceprotect-when-rbls-go-bad.html

i hope as this get more attention, more mail admin to exclude UCEprotect RBL.

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Arie L. Putra
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Any RBL that includes entire netblocks for one offending IP and charges for 'Express' removal is not legitimate IMO.We have removed them from our checks.

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