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Posted by Todd Wilson on Friday, November 21, 2008 at 10:51:50 :
In Reply to: How did all these spammers get through ?? posted by chuck on Friday, November 21, 2008 at 09:24:05 :
Its a computer thats doing it. Theres software out there you can buy. It knows about all the various forums and their programs. A person gets paid sometimes for how many spams they can put out or if someone clicks on it they get paid. May be only 1 penny but you spam a lot it adds up. Set up a computer and walk away and let it do its thing. If you make 5$ you made 5$. It would be enough for a college kid to buy some keg beer at the local bar on friday night so why not? Joes site here has absolutely no security or log in to the forum. Its the easiest out there to spam. Having a login will cut down but not completely stop it as this program knows how to go thru the new user routine on a forum and will actually get its own account and password and then log in and spam itself. There are also web crawlers that will harvest email address's from forums and that gets you put on the email spam list. Then they find an open email server and start sending out spam. I found out the hard way several years ago with my little email server for our Dodge Charger club. Came home and heard the computer chewing away on something, Was really slow. After looking at things I discovered someone was using my server to forward spam. It had literally shoved 10's of thousands of emails into the little computer to send out. Would have took it a year to do it.The data was still coming in as I pulled the plug and started deleting. I locked the server down after that!
Todd