Dirty SpamCop indicted in Protection Racket
Posted by Matthew on Friday December 5, 2003 @10:05AM
from the life-imitates-parody dept.
Matthew writes: Federal Agents have busted a major spam sending ring that was apparently working with the support of SpamCop. The Spam senders, using IronPort Senderbase spam flooding software, were apparently working in collusion with SpamCop, which had recently taken bribes from IronPort to continue operations. In what amounts to a protection racket, IronPort would on one hand flood unsuspecting customers with Spam, and then SpamCop would shake them down to eliminate the spam.
While collusion has long been suspected in the anti-virus racket, no direct evidence has linked the two sides.
Subject:Something strange
spamcop.net claims to be a legitimate organization and, according to some poster someplace else, independent of spamcop.com. However, the administrative contact for the spamcop.net domain has an email address of admin@ironport.com. What's going on here?
Comment by Gerald P. Roston — January 19, 2004 @ 7:14 am
Subject:Re: Something strange
Ironport put up $1 Million to bail them out
(so it's reported) and bought them out.
Comment by Fred Flintstone — February 21, 2004 @ 11:32 pm