Inside the seedy underworld of spammers and phishers

Spammer transcripts are priceless.<p>Another way to fight spammers, would be to quietly shut off sending for their account, while still providing simulated email data to their dashboard, reporting successful sends, opens etc... That way, they would think they are still sending out spam and it would take them a while to realize that they had been cut off, slowing the cycle of them doubling their efforts.

Since when is a botnet a collection of free email accounts?<p>Since when has a spammers return on investment been low?<p>Since when have spammers <i>only</i> used hijacked "legitimate" business domains instead of just using some wildcard email domain setup?<p>Its not enough that he posts his strategies online to make it easier for his adversaries to learn from, but this guy doesn't even sound like he grasps the fundamentals of what is supposed to be his profession?

Unrelated to the content, but why do sites like this go out of their way to disable pinch zoom for mobile devices?

"It’s a game of cat-and-mouse that we didn’t ask to play, but we can hunt when we need to."<p>As an ESP, isn't that pretty much the game you chose to play, both as the cat and the mouse?

I take it the in-house 'Razor' mentioned in the article has nothing to do with Vipul's Razor (<a href="http://razor.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://razor.sourceforge.net/</a>).<p>It'd be great if mailgun did a blog post dedicated to what their Razor does and how they built it.

I'm surprised the customer support even had discussions with these people when they were so clearly violating the terms. I guess these are picked out of lots of similar discussions with well meaning, grammar and spelling deficient customers :)

Is data about spammers made available publicly at Mailgun for example to Spamhaus?

I like how the spammers always explode in anger at the end.

Why are they always foreign? y cant they type normally lol

Interesting