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All Spammers Go to Hell
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:08:24 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 But of course they do. :-) [snip] At a security conference in London this week, a former professional spammer talked about his five-year stint dodging email filters, pushing through unwanted advertisements for porn, casinos and more. The man, who identified himself as Ed but says he also goes by the name SpammerX, says he made between $10,000 and $15,000 a week in the dirty businessnearly half-a-million dollars in a single year. And yes, he does think hes going to hell for his actions. He revealed a few details about how he worked his way around different security systems, tricking them with images that made his emails seem legit, for instance. But the more chilling revelation was his outlook for the future. Unfortunately, he does not think spam is going away. [snip] More: http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/07/all-spammers-go.html Enjoy. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGnvHFq1pz9mNUZTMRAmsNAJ9wQjPpQddO8QnFYSAea0YTzuTgtQCfV0g5 y0XVrQnZ7N2RF3GCeklhJDE= =od3v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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