Re: Stolen creditcard and DDoS spam

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

In message <2850A9B8-598C-11D9-BFE9-000A95CD987A () muada com>, Iljitsch van Beijn
um writes:
> I usually ignore spam other than to sift through my spambox for false 
> positives from time to time, but now I got one that was significantly 
> higher up the annoyance scale. A quote:
>
> "we can offer you stolen data about credit cards of Europe and USA 
> inhabitants and also of Asian countries. Here and just here you'll be 
> able to find out all about your boss, how much does he earn, his SSN 
> and a lot of other info. We accept orders for DDOS-attacks of any 
> servers and also we offer spam-services."
>
> Since they say in so many words that they're breaking the law, and 
> there is a good number of URLs listed, it may be worthwhile to track 
> them down. Anyone have a pointer to a law enforcement agency or group 
> or whatever that might be interested in this?
Many -- probably most or even all -- spam that advertises blatantly 
illegal services is an attempt by one group of spammers to annoy 
another group of spammers/hackers.  That is, the folks who posted that 
are trying to cause trouble for the web sites they listed.

                --Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb