Comments on: Yet another fake spamcop site http://spamhuntress.com/2006/08/26/yet-another-fake-spamcop-site/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 17 May 2008 05:19:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Vasily Pumpkin http://spamhuntress.com/2006/08/26/yet-another-fake-spamcop-site/#comment-34782 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:44:21 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2006/08/26/yet-another-fake-spamcop-site/#comment-34782 And most of all, how about some automation :-). The forms a quite simple without any checks or hidden fields, so they're vulnerable to automatic submission. Hm, I'm thinking of a shellscript with a long list of anonymous proxies and another long list of known spammers (with email addresses and websites). Makes me wonder, whether the backend is database driven, and if so, how many concurrent open connections it can handle :-) Vasily And most of all, how about some automation :-) . The forms a quite simple without any checks or hidden fields, so they’re vulnerable to automatic submission. Hm, I’m thinking of a shellscript with a long list of anonymous proxies and another long list of known spammers (with email addresses and websites). Makes me wonder, whether the backend is database driven, and if so, how many concurrent open connections it can handle :-)

Vasily

]]> by: admin http://spamhuntress.com/2006/08/26/yet-another-fake-spamcop-site/#comment-34776 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:45:01 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2006/08/26/yet-another-fake-spamcop-site/#comment-34776 How about someone entering a newly minted spamtrap in one of them forms? And I wonder what would happen if one spammer joe jobbed another - as in using the domain as from addresses? Those domains are outfitted with an MX record... And apparently catchall... And of course, those forms might work just as well as my e-mail form in gathering webspam. Hmmm... How about someone entering a newly minted spamtrap in one of them forms?

And I wonder what would happen if one spammer joe jobbed another - as in using the domain as from addresses? Those domains are outfitted with an MX record… And apparently catchall…

And of course, those forms might work just as well as my e-mail form in gathering webspam. Hmmm…

]]> by: Vasily Pumpkin http://spamhuntress.com/2006/08/26/yet-another-fake-spamcop-site/#comment-34661 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:42:33 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2006/08/26/yet-another-fake-spamcop-site/#comment-34661 Something that crossed my mind: What would happen if people entered emails and websites of spammers? I mean, I like the thought of spammers having each other on their spamlists and wasting their resources with killing each other's bandwidth :-) Vasily Something that crossed my mind:
What would happen if people entered emails and websites of spammers? I mean, I like the thought of spammers having each other on their spamlists and wasting their resources with killing each other’s bandwidth :-)

Vasily

]]> by: Vasily Pumpkin http://spamhuntress.com/2006/08/26/yet-another-fake-spamcop-site/#comment-34656 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:30:57 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2006/08/26/yet-another-fake-spamcop-site/#comment-34656 So this seems to be a new trend? A couple of days ago I noticed one of the Umax pet spammers suddenly creating "antispam" somewhat doorway pages on his domains. This strategy makes sense because spammers would take those keywords their "enemies" rank for and undermine the credibility of search results. In other words a clear strategy to damage some organisation's reputation. Spamhuntress, you remember our friend Slava? Seems he initiated a new trend in creating spamlists :-). I wouldn't be too surprised if this site only serves as convenient mean of data gathering. Whilst email addresses would be sold to email spammers the websites would land on several spamlists, even with description of the spammable targets. I think this has a striking similarity to phishing. Vasily So this seems to be a new trend? A couple of days ago I noticed one of the Umax pet spammers suddenly creating “antispam” somewhat doorway pages on his domains. This strategy makes sense because spammers would take those keywords their “enemies” rank for and undermine the credibility of search results. In other words a clear strategy to damage some organisation’s reputation.

Spamhuntress, you remember our friend Slava? Seems he initiated a new trend in creating spamlists :-) . I wouldn’t be too surprised if this site only serves as convenient mean of data gathering. Whilst email addresses would be sold to email spammers the websites would land on several spamlists, even with description of the spammable targets.

I think this has a striking similarity to phishing.

Vasily

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]]> by: Brian http://spamhuntress.com/2006/08/26/yet-another-fake-spamcop-site/#comment-34587 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:46:55 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2006/08/26/yet-another-fake-spamcop-site/#comment-34587 From the looks of my recent email spams, I'd say SpamCop and the like are beginning to have significant impact. This is good. Now if we could just get more of these spammers prosecuted.... From the looks of my recent email spams, I’d say SpamCop and the like are beginning to have significant impact.

This is good.

Now if we could just get more of these spammers prosecuted….

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