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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."

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  1. Great quote: by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 5, Informative
    Spam? UCE? Opt-In? Double Opt-In?

    What's the difference between these remarkle advertising vehicles? Don't be left without the proper knowledge when sending out your offering to the masses. Along with our other various How Tos, learn the difference before any mailing.

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

    BTW, as pointed to in the article, a list of members was posted to Usenet w/a list of memberships. There was also a link to an archive of the contents of the site; here's a link:

    http://jscript.dk/2003/8/thebulkclub.com.zip

    and a mirror:

    http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/thebulkclub.co m/thebulkclub.com.zip

    A list of the files in the archive can be found here:

    http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/thebulkclub.co m/contents.txt

    Grab a copy and post your own links!

  2. Re:Bah by Wumpus · · Score: 5, Informative

    One word: Putty.

  3. Re:hosting sites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.spamhaus.org/

  4. Whois Search by ZackSchil · · Score: 3, Informative

    Who is the Bulk Club? I dunno, you tell me whois! By the way, I'd rather not call that phone number, can anyone confirm if it is fake or not? Last time I checked, 666 was not a local prefix.

    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

    Registrar Name....: Register.com
    Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
    Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com

    Domain Name: THEBULKCLUB.COM

    Created on..............: Thu, Aug 29, 2002
    Expires on..............: Sun, Aug 29, 2004
    Record last updated on..: Tue, Aug 26, 2003

    Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
    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

    Domain servers in listed order:

    NS2.ITBRAZIL.COM - 216.162.103.31
    NS0000.4AMDNS.COM - 202.54.192.205
    NS5.4AMDNS.COM - 203.199.113.19

  5. Re:Oh ho ho! by 4minus0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here you go:
    This is the jackass that runs the site bulkclub.com

    Drew Auman
    The Bulk Club LLC
    3867 W. Market St #272
    Akron, OH 44333
    330-666-7625


    Last known home address from yahoo people search (the phone number matches from the contact on a whois on the site registration info):
    Drew Auman
    113 Hunt Club Dr
    Copley, OH 44321-2759
    330-666-7625

    That prefix is quite fitting don't you think?

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    You've got an easy breezy wind at your back...most of the time.
  6. Re:The disturbing thing is... by jcr · · Score: 3, Informative

    If this data were left exposed, collected and put online about most any other group, be it alcoholics or political dissidents, you people would all be appalled...

    The difference would be that the other groups you mention aren't engaging in millions of counts of petty theft on a daily basis.

    -jcr

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    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  7. Re:What a disappointment: by ncc74656 · · Score: 4, Informative
    If wget isn't on your system, try this:

    c=0; while true; do lynx -dump http://www.thebulkclub.com >/dev/null; c=`expr $c + 1`; echo $c; done

    If you don't have Lynx installed either, try this:

    c=0; while true; do (echo "GET / HTTP/1.0"; echo "") | nc www.thebulkclub.com 80 >/dev/null; c=`expr $c + 1`; echo $c; done

    If you don't have netcat installed, what kind of l4m3r are you? :-)

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    20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
  8. Give me an inch and I'll take a mile... by MoeMoe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well while we're on the subject of revenge served cold... **Oops! SPAM SITES LIST**

    Seems I accidentally dropped a link... No what can we do to slashd- I mean 'fix' that?

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    A scam in which all people involved perceive as beneficial...
  9. Re:Oh ho ho! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Crap, forgot to include what the OP wanted. :D
    I'll reply to my own comment anonymously so as not to whore.
    Auman's email contact for bulkmail.com is: aumaninc@hotmail.com
    aumaninc@aol.com is the one listed with yahoo.

  10. Hit 'em where it hurts by justMichael · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you want to get rid of the spammers you are going to need to get rid of companies like this

    If they can't just point and click there will be a lot less spammers just trying to make a quick buck.

  11. Catalogs by gregmac · · Score: 4, Informative

    Drew Auman
    113 Hunt Club Dr
    Copley, OH 44321-2759
    330-666-7625


    Just to save you some time.. randomly pick a couple.. it only takes a couple minutes. And what better use of the /. effect can you think of?

    catalog request

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    Speak before you think
  12. Re:Send them some mail by gklinger · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ah, but that is what Mailinator is for. It's one of those goofy ideas that amuses me no end and I've actually found useful. If you haven't checked it out, do so. It's really rather interesting.

  13. Re:7.62??? Why not .50 caliber by haggar · · Score: 3, Informative

    Anyway, can't beat the ballistics on a .50 cal

    Oh yes, you can:

    It fires 20 gramm (308 grains) tungsten dart (fleschette) with muzzle velocity of 1450 meters per second (4750 fps). At 1000 meters this projectile will penetrate a 40 mm of RHA (rollded homogenous steel armour) and will result in serious secondary fragmentation effect behind the armour. That said, it will penetrate two walls of any modern APC at one kilometer range. The trajectory is very flat and does not rise higher than 800 mm above the line of sight when fired to 1000 meters.

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    Sigged!
  14. Re:What a disappointment: by ChadM · · Score: 4, Informative

    update: it appears that they have changed their DNS tables to stave of a slashdotting. however, their IP address still points to their server!

    while [ true ] ; do wget -O - http://64.78.42.11/benefits.asp > /dev/null ; done

    let the slashdotting continue :)