nanog mailing list archives

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


From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex () relcom net>
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 00:46:22 -0700




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 () elan net>
To: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex () relcom net>
Cc: "Michel Py" <michel () arneill-py sacramento ca us>; "Nanog@Nanog. Org"
<nanog () 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 () elan net



Current thread: