Spam

zounds

Response From Blue Security:

Dear zounds,

Earlier this morning, one major spammer (apparently in great distress) has just started spamming our members with discouraging messages in an attempt to demoralize our community. This spammer is using mailing lists he already owns that contain your email address. The email you had received is part of a spam campaign containing millions of such messages.

As you may already know, many spammers had already listened to the voice of reason and chose comply with the Registry (see our recent blog posts at http://community.bluesecurity.com/blog for more details). This spammer
chose a different type of response - but in vain.

Our answer to those criminals should be one - we will not be discouraged; We will continue to exercise our right to opt-out of spam.
Make spammers hear you load and clear - report your spam and let Blue Frog fight spammers on your behalf.
Keep on the good work and let spammers know - we will prevail!

We're sorry for the inconvenience and would be happy to assist in answering any questions you may have.

Hmm - still not happy, and I won't be using Blue Frog again, but that explains it I guess - kinda! :mad:

John_Gray

Looks to me that the spammers are getting cross about Blue Frog!

John

zounds

John_Gray wrote:

Looks to me that the spammers are getting cross about Blue Frog!

John

hmm - you've made me reassess - that means they are doing the job, as long as they can hold it together under pressure.
They do mention "one major spammer (apparently in great distress)" which made me laugh.
and "The email you had received is part of a spam campaign containing millions of such messages."
So it's not small fries they're dealing with, some of the major spammers probably stand to lose thousands a week.
Their forums are offline at the moment (probably being DDoS'd), but when they get back online i'll watch the reaction and might even give them a second chance.
After all, no-one ever said it was gonna be easy fighting spam did they!

Arfa_2

The DOS attack is still making Blue Security's real web site unreachable. In the meantime Blue Security have posted a blog with some information and messages of support. You can reach it at http://www.bluesecurity.com/ (their normal address).

Don't you think the spammers are being really stupid? First of all they tell us to remove our email addys from the Do Not Intrude register or we'll get even more spam from them (of course, if you do that they will then continue to send more spam to you, so what's the difference?) then they start a DOS attack so that we can't get to the site even if we wanted to remove our details. Talk about being a bit short sighted ...

zounds

Blue Security Kicked While It's Down:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/05/blue_security_surrenders_but_s.html

'Hours after anti-spam company Blue Security pulled the plug on its spam-fighting Blue Frog software and service, the spammers whose attack caused the company to wave the white flag have escalated their assault, knocking Blue Security's farewell message and thousands more Web sites offline'.


CastleCops Blue Security forum:

http://castlecops.com/f230-Blue_Security.html