This particular campaign did not rise above the normal background noise here, but the previous campaigns that I have seen really do not differ much from the quite ordinary, boring and perhaps even slightly incompetently run spamming campaigns.
Apart from the content that seems to raise some eyebrouws, they only stand out for their incompentence. In particular, their reliance on address lists that have not been at all vetted. So of course perpetrators should be subject to the usual measures, and any abuse@ worth their salt should act upon reports. But also please convey to any users that it is almost certain that the embarrasing videos do not in fact exist. Unless of course you think that a particular user deserves to live in fear of just that. All the best, Peter On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 05:58:07PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen via mailop wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 07:10:13AM +0100, Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop wrote: > > Tonight we received a huge wave of extortion spams from OVH hosted domains > > trying to get bitcoin payments. The senders claim that recipients watched > > child porn. > > Your customers might find a tiny bit of solace in that rather conclusive > evidence exists that the supposed videos do not in fact exist, anywhere. > > A rather significant subset of my "imaginary friends" (aka spamtraps) are > at the receiving end of those campaigns at fairly frequent intervals. > > Your customers (and perhaps others) could usefully read my 2022 piece > "The Despicable, No Good, Blackmail Campaign Targeting ... Imaginary Friends?" > (https://www.nxdomain.no/~peter/despicable_no_good_blackmail.html or with > nicer > formatting plus G's trackers at > https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-despicable-no-good-blackmail.html). > > Both versions have links to materials with more detailed information. > > All the best, > Peter > > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/ > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
