Spammers on the Run 297
ericald writes "An interesting
update from Blue Security, the group that introduces the Blue Frog initiative to fight spam, claims that during the past few days at least one spammer had frequently deleted domains he owned as a result of their system.
In another update in their blog
they report they have already recruited over 21,000 users.
It's about time spammers start feeling the heat! I'm just surprised they show results so soon."
what do they do? (Score:1, Informative)
Its great and all yes? But what are they doing?
Blue Security (Score:5, Informative)
Basically, they DDOS spammers websites in hopes that they will shut them down.
Re:what do they do? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:what do they do? (Score:5, Informative)
I see this as having two major effects. First, it keeps the spam away from you. Second, it informs the spammer that nobody read his spam. Spammers *depend* on human beings reading their spam. As long as nobody reads it, nobody buys.
Anti-Blue Frog (Score:5, Informative)
The missing link (Score:2, Informative)
Make them run using Postfix? (Score:5, Informative)
smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
permit_sasl_authenticated,
reject_non_fqdn_sender,
reject_non_fqdn_recipient,
reject_unknown_sender_domain,
reject_unknown_recipient_domain,
reject_unauth_pipelining,
permit_mynetworks,
reject_unauth_destination,
reject_rbl_client ombie.dnsbl.sorbs.net,
reject_rbl_client relays.ordb.org,
reject_rbl_client opm.blitzed.org,
reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org,
reject_rbl_client sbl.spamhaus.org,
permit
We are also using SpamAssassinn / razor / clamav using amavisd-new. The main mail account used for everything from clients webmaster@ mail to contact@ are getting numerous spam daily, yet only three or perhaps four a month get delivered... and those are added to our body_checks.txt which is publicly available for download [linuxreviews.org] by anyone, including spammers who I have a feeling makes spammers think twice and clean us off their list when they find themselves listed there using search engines etc.
Re:Russian spammers fate (Score:2, Informative)
Vardan Kushnir was beaten to death as the result of a botched robbery. That he was a prolific spammer was incidental.
From InformationWeek:
According to the Kommersant, a Moscow newspaper, police said Kushnir met three women in a club, and invited them to his apartment. The women then spiked his drink, but when Kushnir woke up to find the women's accomplices taking credit cards, a laptop, money, and other items, he was bludgeoned to death, the paper said.
Re:Anti-Blue Frog (Score:4, Informative)
TechNewsWorld? Ah, one of those ECT publications. They have such esteemed writers as Maureen O'Gara on their payroll. Their publications are barely news and frequently contain some form of troll or flamebait to get them posted on Slashdot.
If you thought ZDnet was crap, ECT makes them smell like roses.
Re:what do they do? (Score:5, Informative)
Spamming is cheap, and virtually without risk. Essentially, this is a legal way to shift reality so that it's more risky to pay a spammer for your advertising.
Yes it's legal. No, it's not spamming the spammers. They only get one complaint per spam recieved. You'd do it yourself, given the time to do so. Meanwhile, you've explicitly installed a piece of software to do it for you. If that breaks their server, well they probably shouldn't be sending so much goddamn spam.
Re:Spammers fate (Score:2, Informative)
IANAS(tatistician), and I admit you will see the central limit theorem take over in some aspects of human behaviour, but I'm pretty sure I can so show some correlation in others.
Re:Excuse me... (Score:3, Informative)