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Storm botnet used to study spam

Posted Nov 13, 2008 17:23 UTC (Thu) by dankamongmen (subscriber, #35141)
In reply to: Storm botnet used to study spam by ajb
Parent article: Storm botnet used to study spam

Huh, I wonder if the credit card companies could actually issue *real* credit card numbers for people to enter into suspicious sites, to help them trace the perps.

According to various speakers I've seen here at the GTISC, this precise activity goes down every day.

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Prizes for users

Posted Nov 16, 2008 4:00 UTC (Sun) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

...and you could reward the users who help you catch a spammer with _real_ Viagra, donated by Pfizer's marketing dept., which also wants to shut down distribution of the fake stuff. (now let's see if I have enough juice on LWN to post a comment containing the V-word.)

Prizes for users

Posted Nov 16, 2008 19:06 UTC (Sun) by ris (editor, #5) [Link]

> ...and you could reward the users who help you catch a spammer with _real_ > Viagra

Doesn't seem like an incentive to me, nor many users that I know.

Rebecca