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Spamfighters Get A Hold Of Spammers' Incoming Mail
Karin Spaink writes "On July 3 2003, cyberangels.nl was obtained by Spamvrij.nl, a Dutch foundation fighting spam. Previously,
the domain was owned by the infamous Cyberangels, who are majorly involved in spamming. Cyberangels felt forced to drop the domain when the ground under their feet got too hot after BBC journalist Andrew Bomford connected Dutch ISP Megaprovider to Cyberangels.
Since the MX-records for cyberangels.nl now point to spamvrij.nl too, they get all Cyberangels' incoming mail: bounces, spam complaints and what have you. Have a peek: what kind of mail does a major spammer receive in the course of three days? By now, they have a
very precise answer: 6305 mails. Spamvrij.nl published an analysis of those mails on its site."
that they are getting many eCards of sympathy from other spammers? In that business, I would be surprised if they didn't try to sabotage each other now and then.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
These guys are entitled to wear the "I read your email" tshirts.
Lemme check my email...OH MY GAWD!!!!!
How many of them do you suppose answered the ones for discount Viagra and penis enlargement? Oh, wait, nevermind...
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
2 attempts to subscribe ba@cyberangels to a gay magazine;
The trolls strike again!
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Free your mind.
This is probally one of the best news stories I have seen on /. in a while. I went ahead and sent a link to everyone in my address book. Matter of fact I sent it to them all 3 times and then sent 1 additional message advertising how i made 55 thousand dollars in 2 hours. Now if I only knew these people in my address book.
Everyday You see me is the worst day of my life -Office Space
Hmm... My employer's domain filter won't let my browse through this one.
I guess I'll simply check my mail to see what these spammers are up to today.
6305 incoming emails and not one of them contained an order or anything else positive.
So, lessons to be learnt here if you're a spammer:
1. Give up - it's clearly not worth the effort; or
2. Keep at it - if at first you don't succeed, try again!
Now if only we could somehow get them all to learn lesson 1 instead of lesson 2 then we'd be home and dry.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
I'll be that about 90% of the email is some variation of:
IF I EVER MEET YOU I WILL KICK YOUR ASS
"2 attempts to subscribe ba@cyberangels to a gay magazine;"
Yep, it seems that at least two people on the Net know how to fight back, the old "hey, let's sign up the ripe-contact email address for gay porn magazines" routine. Gets 'em every time.
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check this about Martijn FotoFuckFriday @ retecool.com
I think the word we have for that is actually 'sabotage'.
The text says that his teachers predicted he would end up in the gutter. At age 16 he started his own Internet company. "If I end up in the gutter, it will be my gutter!", he defiantly said.
I guess his teachers were right after all...
It works so well that even slashdotters are rushing to read spam mail =)
I can count to 1023 on my hands. Ask me about #132.
Did Mr. Joseph Otumba from Nigeria get my response?
... like me, you read the following line:
/home directory? Swap space problems?
Somebody believed that a Cyberangels' dick was too small.
as:
Somebody believed that a Cyberangels' disk was too small.
I was like wtf? Disk too small? Not enough space in the
Then, I re-read the line, and I went:
Oh, THAT thing is too small... =)
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
A lot of things you wouldn't expect are legal in Holland.
sulli
RTFJ.
Love this part of the analysis:
Both ba@cyberangels and ripe-contact@cyberangels recieved some spam:
1. Mr. RASHEED BELLO sent ba@ six Nigerian scams;
2. @yahoo.com.cn spammed four times with something rather illegible;
3. Mr. Ken Titoh was hoping to assist Mr. ERASHEED BELLO;
4. Somebody believed that a Cyberangels' dick was too small
That only 12 out of 6305 emails they received were actually spam (i.e., 0.2%)! Actually make that 11; I'd guess a spammer would likely be an opted-in and interested customer as regards penis enlargement.
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I don't think your're entitled to anything if you don't leave a forwarding address
I would have thought its a service for the previous owners...
Dear ex-cyberangels, we've received a fair amount of email for you, but as we don't have a forwarding address we've uploaded it to a web site so you can access it at your convenience.
I wouldn't want my email read by others, but then, I'd arrange with my contacts to forward my mail elsewhere, or at least inform them I've moved address.
It's been delayed 8 times, now. I have applied for a Guinness Book of records nomination.
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