Spammers hit back at anti-spam company
Spammers are hitting back at the customers of an Israeli anti-spam company, Blue Security. Customers had been using Blue Security's Blue Frog tool to report spammers, but those same customers are now on the receiving end of a stream of e-mails ordering them to stop using Blue Security's services. It would appear spammers that were reported via Blue Frog got hit with a stream of e-mails themselves, and are now fighting back.
Blue Frog works by putting users into a do-not-spam database. Afterwards, for every spam message received, the spammers get one opt-out message back. When this is scaled up to millions of messages, you can appreciate the impact this can have on spammers. While not many people will feel sorry if the spammers get hit with millions of messages, the controversy arises from a common tactic where spammers control computers to send spam.
