Syngress Force: Emerging Threat Analysis: From Mischief to Malicious

By Spammer X
Everyone on the Internet has a strong opinion on spam. The overwhelming majority of Internet users strongly oppose it, no Internet Service Provider (ISP) wants spam to leave their network, and sending certain types of spam is now illegal in many countries. So how is all the spam sent? It comes down to being creative. Spammers use the Internet in some of the most creative and amazing ways; think of us as the MacGyver s of cyberspace.
It s all a race against time spammers versus anti-spam groups. For every technique spammers come up with to send spam, anti-spam groups come up with a way to block it. And for every technique anti-spam groups create to block spam, spammers come up with a way to bypass it. In the end, no one really wins. So much spam is sent daily that if filters caught 99 percent of it there would still be millions of dollars made from the 1 percent of spam that is delivered. In fact, Microsoft once reported that if they disabled all their spam filters on hotmail.com, they would not be able to hold a single day s worth of un-filtered e-mail. Spam has become an odorless, tasteless gas undetectable, untraceable, and penetrating every inch of the cyber-connected world. For a spammer, it is all about sending the spam at any cost; there is no room for guilt or remorse in how you send it.
As a spammer, I want to send spam,...