I think i'll have to agree with Steven, there are so many free ISP's, free mail accounts, free everything really, that destroying one of their accounts wont do anything. Meeting force with force is generally the only way to get something done.... oh and its FAR more fun ;-) Danny CTX Europe LTD =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I think that prosecuting spammers is far too polite. I had a spammer target my hotmail account, filling it up with up to 5 of the same e-mail because my address was in it 5 times. I tried reasoning with them, and they'd say they'd take me of their list but they never did. So one day I found they were online at the same time I was because of some e-mails coming in at the same time. I got their IP address and nuked them. Then I thought - if I configure my mail client at work to automatically run a program when e-mail comes in from that person I can do all sorts of things. Over a period of 6 months, I ended up installing a trojan on his pc - thanks to microsoft vbs support - cheers microsoft! - nuked him several thousand times whenever he sent an e-mail to me automatically and eventually setup netcat on his pc to give me a dos prompt via telnet. I then went on to IRC and asked some people in some leet-hacker channel what it means when you telnet to a dos prompt, gave them the ip addy and never heard from him again. Apparently they were all on his machine, having fun with the format command :) The moral of the story is - legal action can stop a spammer, but trashing their equipment and making their lives hell is more fun - and less expensive. This email has been scanned for viruses using Trend Interscan Virus WallTitle: RE: ADV: High Search Engine Placement
I think i'll have to agree with Steven, there are so many free ISP's, free mail accounts, free everything really, that destroying one of their accounts wont do anything. Meeting force with force is generally the only way to get something done.... oh and its FAR more fun ;-)
Danny
CTX Europe LTD
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I think that prosecuting spammers is far too polite. I had a spammer target
my hotmail account, filling it up with up to 5 of the same e-mail because my
address was in it 5 times. I tried reasoning with them, and they'd say
they'd take me of their list but they never did. So one day I found they
were online at the same time I was because of some e-mails coming in at the
same time. I got their IP address and nuked them. Then I thought - if I
configure my mail client at work to automatically run a program when e-mail
comes in from that person I can do all sorts of things. Over a period of 6
months, I ended up installing a trojan on his pc - thanks to microsoft vbs
support - cheers microsoft! - nuked him several thousand times whenever he
sent an e-mail to me automatically and eventually setup netcat on his pc to
give me a dos prompt via telnet. I then went on to IRC and asked some people
in some leet-hacker channel what it means when you telnet to a dos prompt,
gave them the ip addy and never heard from him again. Apparently they were
all on his machine, having fun with the format command :)
The moral of the story is - legal action can stop a spammer, but trashing
their equipment and making their lives hell is more fun - and less
expensive.
