Spambayes modifications with web services

Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen lasse at vkarlsen.no
Fri Oct 28 05:56:40 EDT 2005


benmorganpowell at gmail.com wrote:
> In the last few months many personal website owners (such as myself)
> have found that spammers have been using their domain names to
> masquerade as valid users to send spam, normally in the form of:
<snip>
> So, as a web programmer and someone who specialises in getting good
> results on Google, I realised that I could simply post every spammer
> website on a Google optimized page, which if searched for on Google
> would return something like:
> 
> "WARNING: DO NOT BUY FROM THIS WEBSITE. THE SPAMMER IS A RUSSIAN MAFIA
> CROOK WHO WILL STEAL YOUR MONEY."
<snip>

So basically a DoS attack could now be simply performed by crafting a 
spam message and adding the url to your target and then sending it out 
to as many users you can think of ? (DoS not in the typical form, but 
the effect would be just as real, deny them of legitimate customers)

Nice plan sherlock.

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