Spammers aren’t happy, so I am happy. Blue really annoys them, and that makes me happy. Contribute to my happiness and sign up for a Blue Security account.
Just look how unhappy they are — and messages like these are trivially blocked with Pyzor, Razor, and DCC, so it’s hardly anything more than a sad attempt at a scare tactic. I welcome such — and perhaps the first — public admission by a spammer or group of spammers that an anti-spam technique really hurts!
Also, see the story posted to Digg and Slashdot.
Hey,You are recieving this email because you are a member of BlueSecurity (http://www.bluesecurity.com).
You signed up because you were expecting to recieve a lesser amount of spam, unfortunately, due to the tactics used by BlueSecurity, you will end up recieving this message, or other nonsensical spams 20-40 times more than you would normally.
How do you make it stop?
Simple, in 48 hours, and every 48 hours thereafter, we will run our current list of BlueSecurity subscribers through BlueSecurity’s database, if you arent there.. you wont get this again.
We have devised a method to retrieve your address from their database, so by signing up and remaining a BlueSecurity user not only are you opening yourself up for this, you are also potentially verifying your email address through them to even more spammers, and will end up getting up even more spam as an end-result.
By signing up for bluesecurity, you are doing the exact opposite of what you want, so delete your account, and you will stop recieving this.
Why are we doing this?
Its simple, we dont want to, but BlueSecurity is forcing us. We would much rather not waste our resources and send you these useless mails, but do not believe for one second that we will stop this tirade of emails if you choose to stay with BlueSecurity. Just remember one thing when you read this, we didnt do this to you, BlueSecurity did.
If BlueSecurity decides to play fair, we will do the same.
We are quite sure you will think this will not continue, that we will not continue wasting our resources doing this, feel free to wait out the first 48, or the second, and see whether these stop, you will be quite suprised.
If you have another email under the protection of bluesecurity, and have not recieved this there, do not worry, you will soon enough.
We mightve had your email addresses before in our lists, but now, we are targetting YOU, because YOU are a bluesecurity user.
You might also notice, that the BlueSecurity site(http://www.bluesecurity.com) is down..
Just remove yourself from BlueSecurity, and make it easier on you.
Marta Tanner
And here’s a spammer that apparently gets it:
zabba
Posts: 1
Joined: 5/2/2006RE: B l u e S e c u r i t y | READ U… (in reply to killthem)
Killthem - B.Sec’s back up ‘tard. Slash Dot traffic is dropping. You’re kindergarden attacks ain’t keeping up. And boosting spam to frog members just gave them a lot of media press - proved that their strategy is working cause you lost your cool.
Here’s the facts: (I’ve been keeping track)
Net change in BF registered addresses due to your attacks since last friday: -2,697 Would look like a sucess if they didn’t have half a million [badword] addresses - that’s pathetic. Less than 1 percent of registered addresses. You set them back less than a day average. They’ll get more users from the boost in press now. It will be on CN [badword] N thanks to you. Your grandmothers gonna become a Blue Frog member. They’ve been pulling in 20-25k in new registered addresses per week for a while now and you ain’t done squat.
Change in reported spam volume since Friday: 750,000 new spam. You guys are increasing flow to the BF’ers with your kiddie DIFF lists. My test accounts confirm this. But these guys love spam - and you didn’t hit any of my registered accounts that you didn’t already have. Not much of a crack job.
Besides, they just FWD it to B.Sec and claim that they want more. You ready for the back traffic? As soon as B. Sec’s back online, I wouldn’t want to be down range of the frogs. Nice knowing you.
You’re going nowhere fast man. Amature.
Update, May 17th.
Blue’s gone. They closed up shop.