Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes

Thu Oct 9 19:57:06 UTC 2003

How many times have you received SPAM selling a product from a U.S. based 
company?  I have received plenty.... follow the money.... Hank has it right.

M
(speaking only for myself)

>Oops... Try this again...
>
>And as soon as you call law enforcement what happends?  The spammer is
>located offshore.  Then what?
>
>--- Hank Nussbacher <hank at att.net.il> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> >
> > > * "Follow the money" - find out the spammer / the guy who he spams
> > for,
> > > from payment information etc.Sic law enforcement on them.
> > >
> > >     srs
> >
> > I think we can all safely assume that the people behind this are most
> > probably on NANOG or reading the archives and are now aware of your
> > idea
> > :-)
> >
> > -Hank
> >