AOL has always been the target of choice for SPAMmers. MMF losers
think that more than any other group AOLers are ripe for the plucking.
Much to their credit, AOL has fought hard against SPAM and much of the net
abuse such as SMTP hijacking and forged headers has been done in desparate
attemps to feed SPAM into AOL. AOL is so important to SPAMmers that the
"king of SPAM" Sanford Wallace a.k.a. Cyberpromo sued AOL after they started
blocking his SPAM output. Wallace knew his business would suffer if he
couldn't offer his clients SPAMming into AOL. "AOL has no right to do this,"
ranted Wallace. The courts thought otherwise. Other SPAMmers reacted to
AOL's defenses by attemping to mailbomb AOL boss Steve Case and trying to
blackmail AOL by threatening to post a million AOL email addresses on a web
site. The SPAMming software providers targeted AOL with programs that would
cull AOL email addresses from their "members directory" and an AOL email
address generator that worked from the assumption that most AOL email
addresses are formatted similarly. I.E. John12@aol.com, John13@aol.com,
John14@aol.com, and so on. The program would spew out common first names
with incrementing numbers in the hopes that most of these would "hit."
Many of them didn't hit, and postmasters at SMTP sites that SPAMmers were
hijacking had their inboxes filled with rejected AOL SPAM. In a way,
this probably worked out for the better in the war against SPAM because
it alerted many site operators that their servers were being hijacked and
that they disable open relaying ASAP. So much domain filtering is going
on these days that SPAMmers can't use the same domain name more than
once, so they either use fake ones or forge legitimate ones. The freebie
email services such as Juno and Hotmail have been targeted heavily by SPAMmers
out of the notion that postmasters would be reluctant to globally filter
mail out of those domains. Neither service has taken too kindly to SPAMmers
hauling their good name through the mud and have launched legal action
against SPAMmers forging their names when they could be identified. AOLers
still get SPAMmed, hopefully less than before, but one intrepid AOLer
decided to take action and carefully gathered the names and addresses of
people listed as participants in MMF chain letter SPAMs and posted them
on the AOL members web server. The list is reproduced below and the length
of it suggests the incredible volume of MMF SPAMs that AOLers have had
to contend with. So here it is, over 4000 MMF losers that were stupid
enough to SPAM AOLers. By posting these names, maybe they'll think
twice about being involved as MMF losers again. Don't ask me to remove
any names, like the intrepid AOLer who generated it, there is a "no
remove" policy here. Basically put, you cooked your own goose by being
stupid enough to participate in these idiotic schemes and you'll forever
be known as an MMF loser!
Click HERE to see the MMF losers!