Fergie's Tech Blog

P2P Spam Scam

Brian McWilliams writes over on the Spam Kings blog:

Spam Kings describes how spammers like Robert Todino have made money (and gotten into trouble for) sending fraudulent ads for free government grants.

Looks like a version of that email scam has appeared on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. Someone has been spamming Gnutella with junk files promoting a bogus buyers' club site called efreeclub.com.

Since peer-to-peer networks are regarded by many authorities as a land of outlaws, I doubt anyone in law enforcement will care. And that's what makes this p2p promotion of efreeclub.com such a great scam.

posted by Fergie @ 2/22/2006 10:15:00 AM