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Prosecuting Spamming Crackers?

Posted by Cliff on from the shutting-them-down dept.

lnixon asks: "As a recent Slashdot article mentioned, the latest trend in spamming is to use cracked Windows machines for sending spam and hosting spamvertised web sites, 'spacking', as Wired terms it. A couple of weeks ago, I started tracking one of these cracker rings down, carefully documenting the trail as I went.Mostly through luck, I actually found the originating server. This information should seriously put a crimp in their activities...if only I could get the law interested. I have tried to get the attention of CERT, of FBI and of my local police authorities, but nobody seems to be interested. Now, what should I do? Organize a posse?"

8 of 51 comments (clear)

  1. Post a URL on /. by dnotj · · Score: 1, Funny
    That would:

    1. get their attention
    2. be the end of their spam operation (for a while)
    3. ???
    4. profit

    So, whats the url/IP of this/these clowns...

    ...as I prepare the morality guage for /.

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    No more Micro$oft bashing from me. Its like bashing at the special olympics.
  2. Here's how to get law enforcement's attention by El · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're mistake was referring to them as "spammers" instead of "terrorists". Isn't anybody who cracks a system now official considered a "digital terrorist"?

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    "Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney

  3. mmm, prosciuto, spam, and crackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You guys are making me hungry!

  4. Posse? by Atzanteol · · Score: 2, Funny

    One slashdot posse, coming up!

    I'll get the pitchforks, you get the caffeine...

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    "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

    - Charles Darwin
  5. MS Piracy by m0rph3us0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You said their servers are distributing the MS Proxy Server. Why not let MS know about this, I'm sure they'd fire off a memo to the hosting companies letting them know that the sites are hosting pirated software.

  6. Easy solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hack the source web site and turn it into an Al Quaida home page. The terrorist reports will flood in and the spammers will be shut down. That is, until tomorrow when they start up again from somewhere else.

  7. Lemme see.. you want me to click where? by glassesmonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    So I got out my Internet Explorer (cause that's what the article says the website needed) and clicked on all those websites mentioned in the article, but nothing loaded... The page was just blank. Oh, my firewall did ask me something about something called DNS, so I clicked 'OK'.. Could someone please email me what was on the site that I was supposed to look at? He said it might be pron ;)

    Thanks in advanced.

  8. Re:Alert the media by glassesmonkey · · Score: 2, Funny
    Give the information to your local newspapers and TV news programs. . . and the reporters will love you because you saved them from doing any pesky work for themselves.
    Coming up after the break, weather and the world series, but first let's go out to Field Reporter Trisha Takinowa with this report on a man and him crusade... Trisha..

    Thanks Don. We are here to interview a man who used nmap and DNS records to trace down a serial.. um, emailer. Please tell us how you did it, knowing that the community is a little safer tonight and forever in your debt. The hard part of tracking these criminals down is now over, and all that is left is to praise you and love you for all that you have done for us. Please leave no details out, tell us about every IP, URL, exe, port, traceroute and DNS entry.