Anti-Anti-Spam Backlash – BlueFrog must be working!

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Looks like BlueSecurity is making enough of a dent in spam (or at least is annoying enough to the spammer community) that the spammers are attempting to strike back. I’ve been using BlueFrog, which automatically reports spammers who fail to comply with the Do Not Intrude registry, for a few months, and today, for the first time, I received about eight anti-BlueSecurity spams on my work account, all claiming that I would receive many more of these unless I removed myself from the registry immediately.

I’ve reported them as spam, of course, so we’ll see what happens.

As of right now, it appears that BlueSecurity.com is not responding, which means one of two things, I suspect:

1) The spammers, having given up on spamming addresses in the DNI, have started DOSing the BlueSecurity site.
or
2) Someone posted this information to SlashDot before I did.

Still: What’s really sad is that someone, somewhere, is going to buy a sexual enhancement pill tonight because they got a spam. (Don’t get me started on why you’d do this).

Posted on May 1st 2006 in Hardware, Places
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