{"id":209,"date":"2008-11-14T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T08:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2008-11-13T16:06:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T00:06:13","slug":"spam-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Spam Drops"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOffers for sexual potency pharmaceuticals, wire transfer scams, porn, the glut of spams and scams that once flooded your e-mail inbox was cut by 70 percent recently when one (yes, only one) ISP was shut down.
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\nMcColo was a San Jose, California-based Internet Service Provider that was apparently responsible for the majority of the spam you’ve received \u2014 or haven’t received in recent days. After the Washington Post’s Security Fix blog<\/a> identified the source, it was shut down. The immediate effect is shown in the chart below: a sudden drop in world-wide spam traffic.<\/p>\n

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I suppose this is all due to economy of scale, a knife that cuts both ways. In case you didn’t know, it takes only one reply from a 12,000,000 volume spam e-mail blast to make the spam project pay for itself. Put simply, spam is a profitable business. As such, eventually you’ll see consolidation of spam spewers, just as you see dozens of tiny companies eventually join (or get bought out) to become a giant corporate conglomerate. And therein lies the flaw.<\/p>\n

Once these spam companies get big, it’s easier to find them and shut them down, as was shown with McColo and a company called Atrivo before it.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s just a matter of time before the scumbags find another ISP to exploit and flood our inboxes with unwanted e-mail. Again, as long as some idiot somewhere responds to a spam e-mail, the system works. Why anyone would buy pharmaceuticals from a random e-mail message where the products aren’t even spelled correctly is beyond me. But then, again, never underestimate the stupidity of the typical human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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