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Spammer Gets Spam Mailed
ssblood noted a story about a spammer getting what he deserves as well as a related story
from the Register.
Essentially the virtual spammer is capable of sending a billion emails a day, and is getting sacks of physical junk mail from irritable folks. Apparently part of this plot was hatched on familiar turf too.
Not only a dupe, but a lot of us watched it happen. Slashdot is posting an article about itself? I know you got married Taco (congratulations), but have you been under a rock?
karma...
/. cheapened use of the word.
Ain't it a bitch?
And I don't mean
"Almost 300 anti-Ralsky posts were made on the Slashdot.org Web site..."
Sure that sounds impressive, but how many of those were dupes?
Jeesh this is I don't know how old...
Yeah, keep postning this story every and then as a reminder so the junk mail pressure on this guy does not ease off...
- El riesgo siempre vive - Private J. Vasquez
Let us alll forgive CmdrTaco on this cheerfull Sunday morning, since it's obvious thatCMDR TACO NEEDS TO DRINK HIS #$%#$% COFFEE before posting stories!
LongTail SSH Brute Force analysis tool is here!
Sending mail back to spammers really isnt new, I dont see why it hasnt become mainstreme. I get about 10-20 spam e-mails every day and I just reply to them. If you consider it, lets say a spammer sends out 1000 e-mail messages from his hotmail account. Now lets assume each one of these is 3k, if everyone replies to his e-mails and sends his own message back hotmail will shut down the account! There is no need to sign them up for anything special, just reply to their e-mails! So what if some of the are automated. I was getting spam from a company over a period of a year and kept replying to it every day. It turned out that there was a bot doining the mailing so my messages were never deleted, they just sat there. After 9 months I got an e-mail from them telling me to stop imediatly because their web-account had run out of space and their server suspended their account. Other people must have been doing this as well, or maybe my e-mails just built up over time. My point is this, always reply to ur spam mail, 3 or 4 times.
If anyone is sued by Ralksky, get discovery! Get his spams and make them public so that 1000s of people can file lawsuits against him for spamming.
Fight Spammers!
Sign him up with every mailing list for porn magazines, and several Christoid magazines. Also pay a few bucks for an order of Jack Chick tracts (www.chick.com).
Better still, spoof his IP, and create accounts on known Al Qaeda supporter websites, so the next knock he gets on the door will be from the FBI. Imagine his glee when all his funds are snatched up as money tagged to support terrorism.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
Very interesting and sure to be controversial study that suggests most /. editors don't read the papers they cite. This means that if one paper misreads a work the misreading propagates. It's a very interesting study and has big implications for geeks, in my opinion. /. has a good overview of the work. Given that most attention to work has been in sloppy work on the experimental side (poor methadology or outright fraud) this suggests a whole other problem. A lot of the ultimate problem is that many in /. are concerned more about publishing than in solving the issues they investigate. Ideally the point both in science and in academics in general is to understand the ideas. Yet those of you who've looked up footnotes realize that actually engaging the ideas of other editors typically falls by the wayside. Often footnotes are there simply because references are needed. Engaging others works is secondary. I've always thought that the hard geeks were more immune to that effect than the humanities. I guess not."
I wouldnt mind, but not only has it been covered TWICE by /. already, it was BECAUSE it was on /. that the article referenced was even written!!!!
ARRGGHHH!!!!
Anybody got Taco's snail mail address? ;-)
Fried ice cream is a reality. - George Clinton
Give a hand, not a hand-out.
Yeah, but Taco was out with his new bride when the first one was posted. Do you really expect him to be reading his site ON HIS WEDDING NIGHT? I can see it now... carrying her across the threshhold of the honeymoon suite, gruffly depositing her on the bed, whipping out his Zaurus (no, not THAT "Zaurus..." the one with the, er, stylus. I mean, batteries... no, that's certainly no good. Digital screen, yes. The zaurus with the digital screen...) and searching feverishly around the hotel room for a nearby WAP so he can read his website.
CowboyNeal, maybe, but Taco?
-- Minds are like parachutes... they work best when open.
This is great, but he will eventually straighten this out, hire someone to sort out his real mail, or learn to deal. This will not deter him. To make this guy REALLY miserable, we should send the junkmail to his neighbors addresses with his name on it! This would be especially effective using the porn junkmail!!!
Alan Ralsky, who may just be the world's biggest sender of internet spam, has been getting a taste of his own medicine. But now the tide may be turning, he reports.
"They've signed me up for every advertising campaign and mailing list there is." he says. "But, I will get even. I know who they are and I know what to do." he adds with a mischievous grin.
Reports have been coming in from all around the internet about the duplicates. First there was just one or two. Then there was ten. Yesterday there were a few hundred. And today, over twenty five thousand duplicate stories have been posted on the famous geek forum called Slashdot, where the campaign against Ralsky was hatched.
"It's not me." says Ralsky, interviewed outside his home, which is surrounded by hundreds of postal bags because no more room remains inside. He adds "I don't do story submissions. Hell, I didn't even know the place existed until a few weeks ago."
Another truck arrives, and 3 postmen deliver 25 more bags of mail. Over half the yard is covered in bags now.
"I know who these guys are now. My lawyers were looking into this, but I've never heard back from them, so I just had to take matters into my own hands." says Ralsky as small snicker shows up in his grin. "It's all about getting even, and I know what these people hate the most; it's duplicate stories." he goes on saying "In Soviet Russia we didn't have people doing things like this; mail bags would deliver you away."
Ask when all this might come to an end, Ralsky replied "You just wait until I try out all the mod points I managed to get."
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Hoo!
Damn, and I thought this was going to be a story about another dipsh!t getting his due.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Funny... I thought Groundhog day wasn't until February...
I'll have something intelligent to add one of these days...
The immature thing to do here would be to take that as a challenge, or a suggestion that you're just not trying hard enough , or that you're not yet doing your part. But thankfully, we're all adults here, right?
He's made a few modifications to reflect the business that he runs from his house. (Hope he's got a business licence for that.) Enjoy!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I was looking up some information about Sir Walter Raleigh and I came across a new word!
'Ralsky'
SYLLABICATION:
ralsky
PRONUNCIATION:
ral - skee
ADJECTIVE: Inflected forms: ralskeer , ralskyest 1. Slow to learn or understand; obtuse. 2. Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes. 3. Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless: a stupid mistake. 4. Dazed, stunned, or stupefied. 5. Pointless; worthless: a stupid job. 6. Boasting to a newspaper writer ill- advisedly
ex.He ralskyed about his windfall and then the IRS confiscated his belongings Huh! Go figger...
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
Whoah...Taco's Zarus has a digital screen? That's like, waaaay too much information.
Cheers,
b&
All but God can prove this sentence true.
Maybe that is the long sought general cure for spammers. Give their addresses to other spammers...
In the each spam mail there is some contact info. Well, the email headers may be falsified but the advertisements with a false contact info to a advertised product/ company are plain stupid.
When thousands of emails start coming after hiring "direct marketing company" for a campaign, even moron CEO will understand that it is not reasonable policy.
Hehe - I just ran a e-mail validation on that mail-adress:
[Contacting mx00.comcast.net [24.153.64.1]...]
[Connected]
220-mtain01 -- Server ESMTP ("Comcast Messaging System")
220 Unsolicted bulk mail prohibited; spammers will be prosecuted
HELO Network-Tools.com
250 mtain01 OK, [66.46.181.116].
VRFY amr777
252 2.5.0 Possible remote address not checked.
RSET
250 2.5.0 Ok.
EXPN amr777
550 5.7.2 EXPN command has been disabled.
RSET
250 2.5.0 Ok.
MAIL FROM:
250 2.5.0 Address Ok.
RCPT TO:
250 2.1.5 amr777@comcast.net OK.
QUIT
221 2.3.0 Bye received. Goodbye.
[Connection closed]
"If you keep an open mind people will throw a lot of garbage in it."
What's keeping them from spellchecking? What's keeping them from seeing if the links posted are valid, let alone relevant?
After all, each "editor" must post three or even four paragraphs of text a day. Would it kill them to check it? Obviously, the answer is they don't give a fuck.
In particular note the bit about the fish and seaweed being mailed: "postal supervisor warned our mailing specialist that he could be fined for mail service abuse, even as a recipient, should this happen again."
I think just signing the guy up for mailing lists is missing out on the truly beautiful possibilities offered by the USPS.
I hope you're not pretending to be evil while secretly being good. That would be dishonest.
On a more serious note, however, I have just right now been struck by a great (original) idea, and have decided to write this, a spontaneous and completely original, post:
`here' is a unique, randomly-generated email link like this one: `Bill-Me-USD1000-and-Read-This.-1243363468-3707143 8@$COMPANY' and `payable' is a link to a page describing terms:
Never once had a second piece of spam to those addresses, and that domain's got the least spam of any in my possession. (-:
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing