Tech Reporter Pursues Spammer

girish writes "Technology reporter extrordinaire, Mike Wendland, is at it again tracking down spammers. Wendland conducted the infamous interview with Alan Ralsky, the alleged mega-spammer, a few years ago. That article spawned a lively discussion on Slashdot and eventually resulted in hundreds of pieces of junk postal mail flooding Ralsky's million-dollar home. Now Wendland is using a new tool from a service called Project Honey Pot to track email address harvesters. He posted on his technology blog this morning about catching a company that is holding itself out as a legitimate bulk mailer, but appears in fact to be sending to harvested addresses and conducting on the side some other seemingly seedy businesses. Interesting stuff."

Re:The honey is everywhere

[commodoresloat]

There might even be some on slashdot! Who knows?!

That's crazy talk. This place is spam free. And your website can be spam free too! I'll show you how for just $19.95!!

Getting off the spam list, a how-to video

[Anonymous Coward]

A howto video on how to prent yourself so they will take you off their mailing list. [starterupsteve.com]

Re:The honey is everywhere

[Phattypants]

What do you mean? Since I started reading my webmail, I've put all my company's mail-security needs into these miraculous services called hotmail and or yahoo! Why, it was but ten years ago that my penis was two inches shorter! Not only that, but now all of my debt has been consolidated! I can just pass on the tab to my next of kin! I decided contact you, Because I believe you are a reputable person and I feel You can help me and my mother over this confidential matter.

Re:Does it really take that much effort?

[Anonymous Coward]

Creepy slashdot poster unwittingly reveals his creepy plan for spamming...

Yuhu!

[Anonymous Coward]

That particular spammer offers a newsletter on his homepage. Please wait, I will just sign in...

I also have no fear

[Pseudonym]

Spam this:

[e-mail] [mailto]

I figure anyone who spams SpamCop [spamcop.net] deserves what they get.

Re:Does it really take that much effort?

[AndroidCat]

Don't forget the creepy port scanner who looks for installed trojans and exploits them to install his own software. For months now, every morning at 7:42 & 8:42 EST a port scanner checks ports 5554, 9898, 1023 and 445 using several zombies per scan, mainly from Korean and Japanese IP addresses. (There are plenty of other scanners but none so damned punctual as :42 Zombie Charlie!)

Re:I have a slightly better version.

[HermanAB]

Eventually MS will probably have compromized the whole 3 letter permutation and we'll have to block .???