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Of course, this is not new on IRC, but it is new in SPAM. ----- Original Message ----- From: "william(at)elan.net" <[email protected]> To: "Alexei Roudnev" <[email protected]> Cc: "Michel Py" <[email protected]>; "[email protected] Org" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 11:14 PM Subject: Re: Site elimination service -:) - I received offer by 's'p'a'm' > > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote: > > > Ooo, a great idea. As a result - $60 for QA, plus a chance to catch a > > criminal -:). Just as _want to test network IDS - set up IRC, join it into > > EFNet, and here you are_. > > > > Generally speaking, I think it deserves attention (this adv.). > > You're assuming that this is something very new, but it has been going on > for long time on irc. If you knew right channel you can find people quite > willing to DoS somebody else for $$. That it moved to spam is unusual for > their types, but if you remember how many DoS attacks had been happening > to anti-spam sites and services, it is clear that spammers did pay some of > these criminals to do it. Probably the person responsible for this spam is > kind of middle-person who had been arranging things like this. > > One note is it could be interesting to know how many emails like that had > been sent and how targeted the audience may have been. > > -- > William Leibzon > Elan Networks > [email protected] >
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