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

Sat Jun 5 07:17:08 UTC 2004

Well, somehow I don't think this would be the kind of spam product/service 
they can sell well to make it worth sending typical 100 million emails.
The kind of people who want this are already spammers and similar criminal 
cround, and while offering of DoS service would probably continue, it'd
likely be done on the specialized forums. That is why I asked how targeted 
do you think that email was...

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote:

> 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