My son and I have just been having a discussion about spammers – it was due to my having just flagged a few of them here while he just killed some emails he got. Anyway, the outcome of the discussion was:
– Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an email address or website where we could forward spam message to and they would then organise a few days of Denial of Service attacks on the sites being promoted by the spammers.
We concluded that if this happened:
– after a few incidents any site that was paying people to send spam would find it counter productive and stop it;
– spammers doing this for other reasons like getting people to visit their trojan laden site would get a bit upset to find their sites being trashed;
– the value of spam bot nets would decrease, and hopefully reduce the number.
Sadly, neither of us knows how to contact anyone who would do this and doubt it would happen in real life – but isn’t it a NICE dream?
