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

[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???

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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

[Kufat]

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

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:

[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:

[Istealmymusic]

Why only fetch the FIRST PAGE? Fetch them all!

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

Haiku

[Anonymous Coward]

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

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???

But hey!

[Geekenstein]

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

*signs up his boss*

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.

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?

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.

I'm suprised it's so active

[banky]

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

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