By Spammer-X
HIGHLIGHT
Authored by a former spammer, this is a methodical, technically explicit expose of the inner workings of the SPAM economy. Readers will be shocked by the sophistication and sheer size of this underworld. |
Unravel the underworld of hackers, mobsters, con-artists, and pornographers
Date: Nov 2004
Pages: 432 (est.)
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DESCRIPTION
From the Author: "You may hate spam and think all spammers are evil, but listen to my story and see why I do this and more importantly, HOW."
For most people, the term "SPAM" conjures up the image of hundreds of annoying, and at times offensive, e-mails flooding their inbox every week. But for a few, SPAM is a way of life that delivers an adrenaline rush fueled by cash, danger, retribution, porn and the avoidance of local, federal, and international law enforcement agencies. "Inside the SPAM Cartel" offer readers a never-before seen view inside this dark sub-economy. You'll meet the characters that control the flow of money as well as the hackers and programmers committed to keeping the enterprise up and running. You may disagree with their objectives, but you can't help but to marvel at their ingenuity and resourcefulness in defeating spam filters, avoiding being identified, and staying one step ahead of the law.
KEY
SELLING POINTS
- Spam makes up now 64% of all email sent and it is said to be the most annoying part of being online.
- You'll meet the characters that control the flow of money as well as the hackers and programmers committed to keeping the enterprise up and running.
- Authored by a former spammer, this is a methodical, technically explicit expose of the inner workings of the SPAM economy.
MARKET
INFORMATION
This is a great read for people with even a casual interest in cyber-crime. However, it includes a level of technical detail that will clearly attract its core audience of technology junkies and security professionals.
All other spam books are written from either anti-spam activists or system administrators trying to stop spam, nothing is written from the point of view of a spammer. All the “HACKING EXPOSED” type of books are such a big hit because you learn first hand how it works from the hacker, this is the same. Spam is a huge expense to a lot of companies; to see how a spammer thinks would be invaluable.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
X SPAMMER is a reformed spammer who now works as a systems administrator.
TECHNOLOGY
BACKGROUND
While the majority of the book deals with how and why spammers spam, there is also a lot of supporting technical information, including coverage of Spam filters, Content Inspection, Proxy Servers, Bot Networks, host security, jump pages, hijacked routers, web app hijacking and worms.
Email considered Spam 60% of all email
Daily Spam emails sent 12.4 billion
Daily Spam received per person 6
Annual Spam received per person 2,200
Spam costs to all non-corporate Internet Users $255 million
Spam costs to US corporations in 2002 $8.9 billion
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