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IP: Revenge spam hits antispammer
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 18:45:36 -0400
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 20:24:15 -0400 From: "Beth Arnold" <betharnold () cfjf dyn ml org> Subject: Revenge spam hits antispammer My name is Elisabeth Arnold. As you may or may not know, I have been the victim of a massive revenge spam. I work at a small ISP in New Jersey. Recently, I pulled a spammer's account for repeated violation of our acceptable-use policy. This was 2 weeks ago. That weekend, a message was sent out by "Beth Arnold" with a bunch of gibberish and a 200k wav file of "animal sounds". This weekend, 2 separate messages were sent, one to participants in the net-abuse groups -- including a 300k wav file of recordings from the activity menu of an Audix voice-mail system, and another to participants in the comp.* and rec.* groups. You may very well have received this message:
Call BETH ARNOLD at 1-800-450-5766 to order a list of e-mail addresses and bulk e-mail software. If you got this message, congratulations. You are on a list of e-mail addresses that we sell. You will receive many more messages like this one.
[SLIGHTLY EDITED FOR RISKS. PGN] This message was obvious flame bait, and it worked very well. I received 200 calls to my 800 number before disconnecting it. My mail server was inundated with mail bombs, returns, and complaints. My http ports were SYN attacked. And I was "ping stormed". UUNet is useless in tracking this person down. They just don't care. I would appreciate any help I can get. Thank you, Beth Arnold betharnold () cfjf dyn ml org ******Remember 19 June in San Fran****** Look at http://www.eff.org/fillmore
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