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Anti-Spammers Infiltrate Private Online Spam Clubs

Posted by simoniker on from the spy-in-the-house-of-spam dept.

Angry_Admin writes " Spammers are now trying to find out which antispammers have infiltrated their ranks and are sharing "sensitive" info with fellow antispammers. According to the story at The Register: 'Online spammer forums like the Pro Bulk Club the Bulk Club and bulkmails.org have been gatecrashed by activists from organisations like Spamhaus. Steve Linford of Spamhaus said spammers know this already but they don't know who amongst their number is working for the other side. In theory the members-only forums of these sites is accessible only by invitation and only to individuals who have a proven track record in spamming. Apart from playing with the paranoia of spammers, the undercover investigation cast light on the latest spammer techniques.' Hopefully the spammers aren't that bright and the antispammers stick around long enough to bring them down."

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  1. Re:hmmm by Marc+Desrochers · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Just picking nits here, but perhaps you should have phrased that as "Nazi concentration camps". Nazis were (mostly, were there any non German Nazis) German, the vast majority or Germans weren't Nazis. Lets be fair here.

    otherwise yes, I totally sympathize.

  2. Re:hmmm On picking nits. by HiThere · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    For fairness it should be noted that the US had, and has, concentration camps. In WWII they were mainly filled with citizens of Japanese descent. And according to reports, during WWII they were relatively decent places, i.e., most detainees did live through the experience, and only lost almost all of their possessions. (Strangely, those of germanic descent weren't detained.) One doesn't know that the current camps are as benign. Perhaps it will prove so in the future...but that's not the way to bet. (I don't know the odds...but I have an idea of the stakes.)

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  3. Re:Tsk tsk... by techno-vampire · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Spamhaus Barbie says, "Spammers are stupid."

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  4. Re:Tsk tsk... by VAXGeek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Go play at AloofHosting.com, free web hosting that makes sense."

    Parent is so brazen about shilling his crappy webhosting site that it's actually not even in his sig. He went through the extra trouble to paste it into his post, just go we KNOW about ALOOFHOSTING.COM. I applaud you for your effors, sir.

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