On Mar 27, 2014, at 1:38 PM, Brandon Ross <br...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> On Mar 27, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Barry Shein <b...@world.std.com> wrote: >> >> Please explain in detail where the fraud potential comes in. > > Spammer uses his botnet of zombie machines to send email from each of them to > his own domain using the user's legitimate email address as From:. Spammer > says it was unsolicited and keeps the full $.10/email that victim users have > deposited into this escrow thing. > > Sounds a lot more profitable than regular spam.
You say this like having a tax on running a botted computer on the internet would be a bad thing. I agree that it would provide a bit of profit to the spammers for a very short period of time, but I bet it would get a lot of bots fixed pretty quick. Owen
