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from: Mike N.
date: 2006-11-11 13:17:44
subject: Re: Attack the spammers

From: Mike N. 

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:28:43 -0600, "Glenn Meadows"
 wrote:

>I guess to have more effect on those who actively
>take orders, more info/digging would be needed to broaden it's ability to
>send bogus orders to different groups of sites

   It looks it hits only a few web sites with a number of affiliate
accounts.   But maybe there are only a few key scam order processors that
serve spammers, and this tool submits to those processors.    It may soon
need faster updates to be effective as the spammers make a countermove.

   I doubt they'll get their account yanked for processing all those bogus
accounts.   They probably will get dinged from between 0.10 to 0.25 per
failed transaction for the processing fee.   That will help to make the
whole venture unprofitable.  Some criminals validate CCs by submitting fake
donations of $1.00 to charity online.   In that way, the charity gets hit
up for all the fake CC number processing fees.

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