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

Sat Jun 5 07:46:22 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...
It is difficult to answer... at least, it come to e-mail used in nanog and
other _network related_ messages,
not onto my _consulers_ e-mail.


>
> 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
>