One fellow who frequents news.admin.net-abuse.email duitfully fills out the forms for the mortgage spammers - with a bogus name that will trigger his memory of which spammer it was, but a valid phone number, and a ridiculously high income. Then when the mortgage brokers call, he flips through is file of mortgage spams, finds the one that got this "lead" and explains to the caller that he bought a lead from (pick as many as apply): A proxy abuser, a Chinese spam-gang hoster, a kiddie-porn spammer, a penis-pill/patch spammer, a a convicted cocaine dealer (Eddie Marin, for example), an illegal pharmacy spammer, etc.
Then he explains that he has started publicizing this method, and that any future leads purchased from the same source will inevitably have a higher chance each day of being absolutely bogus - and that the same method is being used on *all* mortgage spammers, so any source of leads that turns up two or more "bad" leads in one day is probably a spammer, and eventually the leads from that source will be more than 90% bogus.
Another approach is for the "prescription drugs" spammers. Simply print the spam, use a "safe" browser to visit the spamvertised Web site and print a copy of it, and snail-mail the spam and the Web site (with whois contact details if you want extra credit) to the US Food and Drug Administration with a short cover note: "Is it legal to sell prescrition drugs over the Internet with a doctor's examination?"
The information you seek has already been posted in news.admin.net-abuse.email
I am specifically asking that people *NOT* commit denial of service attacks on the spammers' servers. We do not need to sink to their level. A DDoS was committed against all of the people named as defendants in this frivolous lawsuit on or about 13-14 April 2003, and evidence in thatycase is being collected still.
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One fellow who frequents news.admin.net-abuse.email duitfully fills out the forms for the mortgage spammers - with a bogus name that will trigger his memory of which spammer it was, but a valid phone number, and a ridiculously high income. Then when the mortgage brokers call, he flips through is file of mortgage spams, finds the one that got this "lead" and explains to the caller that he bought a lead from (pick as many as apply): A proxy abuser, a Chinese spam-gang hoster, a kiddie-porn spammer, a penis-pill/patch spammer, a a convicted cocaine dealer (Eddie Marin, for example), an illegal pharmacy spammer, etc.
Then he explains that he has started publicizing this method, and that any future leads purchased from the same source will inevitably have a higher chance each day of being absolutely bogus - and that the same method is being used on *all* mortgage spammers, so any source of leads that turns up two or more "bad" leads in one day is probably a spammer, and eventually the leads from that source will be more than 90% bogus.
Another approach is for the "prescription drugs" spammers. Simply print the spam, use a "safe" browser to visit the spamvertised Web site and print a copy of it, and snail-mail the spam and the Web site (with whois contact details if you want extra credit) to the US Food and Drug Administration with a short cover note: "Is it legal to sell prescrition drugs over the Internet with a doctor's examination?"
The information you seek has already been posted in news.admin.net-abuse.email
I am specifically asking that people *NOT* commit denial of service attacks on the spammers' servers. We do not need to sink to their level. A DDoS was committed against all of the people named as defendants in this frivolous lawsuit on or about 13-14 April 2003, and evidence in thatycase is being collected still.