Site elimination service -:) - I received offer by 's'p'a'm'

Sat Jun 5 06:43:36 UTC 2004

Of course, this is not new on IRC, but  it is new in SPAM.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william at elan.net>
To: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex at relcom.net>
Cc: "Michel Py" <michel at arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>; "Nanog at Nanog. Org"
<nanog at nanog.org>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: Site elimination service -:) - I received offer by 's'p'a'm'

>
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
>
> > Ooo, a great idea. As a result - $60 for QA, plus a chance to catch a
> > criminal -:). Just as _want to test network IDS - set up IRC, join it
into
> > EFNet, and here you are_.
> >
> > Generally speaking, I think it deserves attention (this adv.).
>
> You're assuming that this is something very new, but it has been going on
> for long time on irc. If you knew right channel you can find people quite
> willing to DoS somebody else for $$. That it moved to spam is unusual for
> their types, but if you remember how many DoS attacks had been happening
> to anti-spam sites and services, it is clear that spammers did pay some of
> these criminals to do it. Probably the person responsible for this spam is
> kind of middle-person who had been arranging things like this.
>
> One note is it could be interesting to know how many emails like that had
> been sent and how targeted the audience may have been.
>
> -- 
> William Leibzon
> Elan Networks
> william at elan.net
>