The Famous Brett Wat's Journal: They started by framing me as a spammer

This entry will be brief, folks, because I've documented it all elsewhere before. The full story can be found at my article When Spamming Gets Personal . That's hosted on Nutters.org, which is a target in the threatened attack, so you may have better luck doing a Google search for it, and using the cached copy. I intend to keep Nutters.org up and running, but I'm likely to experience technical difficulties in the short term.

For those who want the short, short version (the article above is nearly 2500 words), I started noting an increase in hits on the Nutters.org home page on 2003-03-16 which looked a lot like email-based click-through. I wasn't sure whether it was spam or a popular mailing list. A couple of days later, I had confirmed that it was spam, dressed up to look like I was sending it. Someone posted a copy to news.admin.net-abuse.sightings, and you should be able to find it with this Google groups search.

Note the use of the signature, "A message from the United Email Freedom Front." We'll be hearing more about that name. It's possible that they change their name from operation to operation, since a Google search for it, at the time I became aware of it, produced zero hits.

Keywords: vindictive spam, vindictive spamming, complaint-bait