Fergie's Tech Blog

Blue Security Joe-Jobbed?

Via eMail Battles.

Some trickster is trying to hit a spammer (Robert Soloway) and an anti-spammer (Blue Security) with a single stone.

Someone recently placed an order at the web site of spammer-for-hire Robert Soloway. Using a stolen credit card, the unidentified person signed up for Soloway's $149 "Custom Broadcast Emailing to 2,500,000 People" service. The trickster, who claimed to be with Blue Security, wanted Soloway to broadcast a message with the subject line "Do away with unsolicited ads" and the following message body:

Learn how to wipe out unsolicited advertisement snders. Our active approach allows for eye for eye justice. We poison the databases of those who send out these unsolicited ads in order to cause them to run afoul of the law and cost them money in wasted billing efforts, phone calls, etc.

Soloway faxed me a copy of the order last week, and I passed it along to Blue Security. The people at Blue were, as you might expect, a bit miffed at this apparent attempt to give them a black eye. But this isn't the first time that's happened.

posted by Fergie @ 12/27/2005 12:28:00 PM